Aer Lingus flew 9.5 million passengers in 2011. The company employs 4,000 people and in 2011 had revenues of EUR1.3 billion. While it is not part of an alliance, the airline has codeshares with Oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam members, as well as interline agreements with Aer Arann, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines. The airline's head office is located on the grounds of Dublin Airport.įormes in 1936, Aer Lingus is a former member of the Oneworld airline alliance, which it left on 31 March 2007. It is Ireland's oldest extant airline, and its second largest after low-cost rival Ryanair. It operates a fleet of Airbus aircraft serving Europe, North America and North Africa. Mr Brewer is also a non-executive director of Allegiant Travel, the US airline firm in which Declan Ryan's investment company previously had a stake.Aer Lingus Group Plc (ISEQ: EIL1, LSE: AERL) (an anglicisation of the Irish Aer Loingeas meaning "air fleet") is the flag carrier of Ireland. They are former Air Canada chief executive Montie Brewer and Nicola Shaw, a director of Firstgroup's UK Bus unit. However, Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has already said another bid for Aer Lingus is unlikely.Īer Lingus yesterday appointed two new independent non-executive directors to its board. The low-cost-carrier owns a nearly 30pc stake in Aer Lingus, while its one-year moratorium on making a fresh bid for Aer Lingus expires at the end of this week. It has also reduced the number of Aer Lingus aircraft at its Gatwick base.Īer Lingus management, including chief executive Christoph Mueller, will this morning attempt to persuade investors that a new strategy, backed by the significant cost-cutting measures that include the elimination of about 670 jobs, will provide the airline with a viable future.Īmong those in attendance today will be two senior Ryanair representatives. Since then, Aer Lingus has scaled back its long-haul and some short-haul services and postponed aircraft orders as it seeks to rein in costs and save as much as €97m a year. He also said that the airline would have to invest up to €2m to enhance its reservation systems to meet the requirements of the alliance. The then Aer Lingus chief executive Dermot Mannion said that membership of OneWorld had become less relevant because of the increasing number of direct flights that Aer Lingus offered. Other sources also said there appeared to be no move by Aer Lingus to alter the fare composition and seating arrangements on the route.Īer Lingus was previously a member of the OneWorld alliance that includes airlines such as British Airways and American Airlines, but it left the group in 2006. He also said it was "very unlikely" that Aer Lingus would re-introduce business-class fares on the Dublin-London route, as he quashed rumours of such a move. There was much speculation that Aer Lingus could be about to announce its intention to join the Star Alliance group of airlines that includes members such as Lufthansa, BMI, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand.īut Mr Barrington said yesterday that there were no imminent plans for Aer Lingus to join any alliance, although the carrier was exploring all potential avenues open to it. I would welcome it because for me it would make life easier by a long run for my short haul connections, so I’m looking forward to whatever they announce.Īer Lingus scotches rumour that it is to rejoin an allianceĪer Lingus chairman Colm Barrington has scotched rumours that the airline is to rejoin an international alliance as the carrier unveils a new strategy to investors this morning. Joining with 60 days’ notice giving the IT requirements, service changes and marketing problems is a little much.
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Now while it would make sense for Aer Lingus to join *A (giving their extensive UA and possible AC relationship) I don’t think they can join as a full member at this time within that short time frame. Easy to introduce, just block the middle seat and hand out some food.
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The only difference between FlexiFare and business class would be better seating and free food because the rest is comparable. I can imagine that they were testing the water with the FlexiFares which mostly are on a pricing level that could be business class. Now I usually don’t trust rumors but the introduction of premier was mentioned 4 times to me by 3 Aer Lingus FA’s and 1 BMI FA, so maybe there is some sort of truth to it. Ever since Aer Lingus introduced the FlexiFare there have been rumors about them re-introducing Premier on certain routes.
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