Aer Lingus

[Aviador]

[textarea]Aer Lingus axe five Belfast routes

Aer Lingus is cutting its Belfast flights this winter, taking one plane out of service and axing routes to Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Rome and Faro. The move is part of the airline’s wide ranging cuts to its winter schedule, which will also see it make 55 cabin crew in Dublin redundant.

The airline plans to slash short haul services over the winter, with the number of aircraft based in Dublin cut from 24 to 22 and the number in Belfast cut by one. However, new services from Belfast to Tenerife and Dublin to Fuerteventura and Tunisia will be launched in October.

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This comes as no great shock and personally I always felt that they chose the wrong airport to set up their new base.

 

[Aviador]

The airline is increasing the number of flights between Belfast and London to 4 x daily from the start of the summer season.

 

[News Guru]

[textarea]Aer Lingus celebrate Belfast Airport milestone

Aer Lingus has sold two million seats in the three years since it began operating at Belfast International Airport, the Belfast Telegraph reports. One million passengers have flown to the Continent while just over 750,000 customers were flown on the flagship Heathrow route since the firm started flying from the airport on December 10, 2007.

Christoph Mueller, the airline's chief executive, said that the company has succeeded despite some of the most challenging years ever experienced in the airline industry. He said: ‘We continue to exceed targets and deliver real choice and competition to the marketplace. In just three years of operating from our Belfast base we are clearly delivering value for money to our customers.'

‘In June, we were rated in the top two airlines in Europe in a customer satisfaction survey and most recently we were voted best airline to Europe from Belfast at the Northern Ireland Travel and Tourism Awards. We've created 100 jobs, invested millions, offer 10 routes and have carried nearly two million passengers. But there is still plenty of room for growth.'

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[Kiwi]

Hey everyone, just discovered this site while trying to find info on which gates Aer Lingus use at Belfast (its a flight sim project)....my info is a bit old so I have it as there is 4 A320's based there and no doubt this has changed since then but where do they usually park ?? Looking at the docking chart there is an international pier and and also gates 9-18. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and thanks for a great and informative site.

 

[Aviador]

Hey everyone, just discovered this site while trying to find info on which gates Aer Lingus use at Belfast (its a flight sim project)....my info is a bit old so I have it as there is 4 A320's based there and no doubt this has changed since then but where do they usually park ?? Looking at the docking chart there is an international pier and and also gates 9-18. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and thanks for a great and informative site.

First of all welcome to Forums4airports!

Sorry I can't help you on this one. I've tried looking on the Google maps to see if you can tell which aircraft are parking where but the image isn't very clear.

 

[Kiwi]

Thanks for the welcome Aviador...so far I found that Gate 16 seems to be one of their primary gates, they also use 27 will keep trying to hunt down the two they still use or used to use. Mark