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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

What are EI's US partnerships going to look like in the future? At the moment, there are a mish-mash of deals with AA, AS, B6 and UA in the US. Are they likely to move away from UA and get closer to AA, given the TATL JV, and perhaps even (re)join oneworld again? The transatlantic JV is already wel...

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Re: Movies with airlines on them

Weren't Qantas and Ansett in the ABBA movie? Yes, Qantas 747-200B and Ansett Boeing 727s. Also, nobody mentioned the Airport movies... Airport - Northwest 727 in the closing credits, and some others, including that Boeing 707 in "Trans-Global Airlines" colours Airport 1975 - has that Amer...

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Re: Aviation video games

Going back to the 8-bit days of the Commodore 64 (which you can still play today using the CCS64 emulator on a Windows PC), the best one was probably A.C.E. A.C.E. stood for Air Combat Emulator and was from Cascade games. A really, really good fighter simulator for the C64. Also worthy of mention wa...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Eirules wrote:
I saw them but only bookable through an OTA & still no definitive confirmation you can earn BA TPs so I didn’t pull the trigger

You definitely can't earn BA TPs at this time, so probably the correct decision.

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Saw today that Aer Lingus are selling MAN to MCO and JFK for £950 return in business class.

Travel is November to February, so if you want a cheap fare across the Atlantic, that's the one to get

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Flight departed from Gate 210 flight nearly full in Business and 80% down the back which is impressive for early March to Greece. Aegean could have added a few more rotations between April to October but I guess played it safe. Hopefully they will up it for 2024 and the rumoured ORK flight might ac...

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Re: Is British Commercial Aviation Prepared?

Hi all, So I'm thinking back to the summer when dozens of airlines in the UK cancelled thousands of flights, in part, due to a lack of staff (baggage handlers, pilots, cabin crew etc.) to man those flights. I'm now wondering if these roles have been filled, as it won't be that long until we all sta...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

Has QF ever said anything about Brisbane and any Sunrise potential? QF currently only have access to 4 slot pairs at LHR so pretty unlikely given SYD,MEL, PER and SYD-SIN would use all of these. There's always Gatwick! I am sure they could pick up slots somehow. They have the money... it all depend...

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Re: Inflight turbulence leaves 1 dead NTSB to investigate

This is not meant to be sensationalist, but: how can you die from turbulences? Of course, not buckled up, yes. So she/he fell so unfortunate that her/his neck was hurt? Or was it maybe a heart attack triggered by the turbulences. Very easily. If you have your seatbelt unfastened, there are any numb...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

AmricanShamrok wrote:
That's disappointing and a massive jump from the €19.99 each way fare that it had been charging up to now.

Very much so, but still so much faster than the train service, probably worth the price premium.

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

I do think there is something going on behind the scenes. The re-alignment of fares from the winter schedule is a hint something is afoot. On the face of it one world connect seems the ideal solution for an airline obsessed with half baked solutions. For sure, as they've been hiring roles with AJB ...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

I was going to post this. It should have a health warning for now, for two reasons. 1) The QR 'Basic' Business fare class was showing reduced earning earlier in the week. This was, apparently, an error and has since been fixed. 2) Standalone ORK-ACE, for example wouldn't be part of the AJB, as I un...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Hopefully true. While it may not change my transatlantic flying (because I try to avoid EI), earning TPs on European flights would definitely help to retain BA Gold Same here, the European flights will stop me doing so much DUB-LHR-XXX flying. Though it's not like a lot of fare classes are availabl...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

Interesting news. If you look at the British Airways Airways Avios Calculator - https://www.britishairways.com/travel/flight-calculator/public/en_gb When you put in Aer Lingus and select say DUB-LHR or DUB-JFK or whatever, it shows that you are awarded Avios... and Tier Points! This will be a gamech...

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Re: UK. £643m travel vouchers unclaimed.

Not much more the airlines can do about it - if they remind people and they then don't use them, well too bad so sad in my book and the airlines should keep the revenue. Of course there is......they could, and should, then issue the refund to the passenger. That wasn't the agreement at the time tho...

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Re: Irish 3/23: The March of time

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/girl-4-asks-to-move-house-due-to-constant-noise-from-dublin-airports-north-runway-42363089.html Emotive piece lacking on detail. I have zero sympathy, I'm afraid. The airport has been there for a long time and the land for the new runway has been there fo...

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Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

How is BA differentiating its F product/service from J (beyond the seat)? On the ground? Inflight? F passengers have exclusive use of the Concorde Room in LHR, the new Chelsea lounge in JFK and of course all the other one world alliance F lounges. That would include things like the BA and CX F loun...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2023

Personally, I believe there might be CBR (Intl) services using the A223 as well. For example: CBR-AKL, CBR-WEL. Also, theoretically it could do a CBR-SIN, but would there be demand for that?, I'm sure there would be enough demand to fly an A223 from CBR to SIN. Anyone would prefer to fly from their...

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Re: UK. £643m travel vouchers unclaimed.

Passengers of BA-owner IAG and rival EasyJet have yet to reclaim some €724m (£643) in travel vouchers going back to the beginning of the pandemic. Another reason airlines love not giving refunds, because they know not everyone will use their "credits". Not everyone will have the time/fund...

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Re: L1011 minutiae - Pneumatics

SteelChair wrote:
If anyone enjoys this type of thing, please let me know. I can post more minutiae. There's interesting stuff all over this airplane. If you like airplanes.

I always like knowing these kinds of thiings, so look forward to seeing more.

Thanks for that!

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

Utilisation is low due to a lack of tech crew (especially in SYD). All 29 ordered A220s are to be operated by Qantas subsidiary National Jet Systems, assuming they can crew them (NJS tech crew will shortly become the lowest paid jet airline pilots in MEL, SYD and BNE, along with the majority of the...

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Re: Big expansion announced by Royal Jordanian

Whatever happened to Royal Jordanians fleet plans? Well the newspaper article linked said they plan to grow from 24 to 40 aircraft over the next three to five years. Interesting that Samer Majali is back, as he was the CEO of RJ when they were profitable and growing about 15 years ago. When he left...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Hi guys, Mrs VS is going to be arriving in DUB on AA on 4/1 and is wondering whether she can utilize any of the lounges before heading off to her final destination. She’s not a business customer this would be leisure only. Bonus points if it has showers etc all help appreciated as it’s the first ti...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Hi guys, Mrs VS is going to be arriving in DUB on AA on 4/1 and is wondering whether she can utilize any of the lounges before heading off to her final destination. She’s not a business customer this would be leisure only. Bonus points if it has showers etc all help appreciated as it’s the first ti...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

On another note I got the breakfast this morning and they have added black pudding. Is that in addition to the white or just replacing it? There's also a good write up on Ireland West Airport analysing the routes and so on in Air Service One - https://airserviceone.com/knock-welcomed-722000-passeng...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

A recent return to Dublin Airport after lockdown brought me to T1 for the first time in more than three years. How shabby it looked and those long, long unassisted walks with no travelator or just brief stretches to assist the aged. Toilets not particularly clean or functioning properly. As usual, ...

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Is Aer Lingus "AerSpace" business or economy? You decide! LHR-DUB on an Airbus A321neo LR

For all the pictures that go with this report, please click here . AerSpace is a real mystery, isn't it? Aer Lingus don't operate business class on European flights, only on transatlantic sectors. Within Europe, some flights have an option called AerSpace, which is row one on an Airbus A320 with the...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Nothing is ever “perfectly safe”, but even 30 years old is pushing it for passenger aircraft. VA can use the (comparatively) younger age of their FIFO fleet as a commercial incentive. It's not the age of the aircraft anyway - the main aging for aircraft is down to hours and more importantly pressur...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Some of NWK’s F100s are now 30 years old. Very long in the tooth for passenger aircraft, and with all negative press Qantas have been getting having increasingly older aircraft isn’t too much of a good look. Perhaps more aircraft will be to maintain the current level of operations. It looks as if V...

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Fun times in First Class on Alaska Airlines from Honolulu to Seattle on the Boeing 737-900

For all the pictures that go with this report, please click here! It's funny how you can get a great impression of an airline that never leaves you. I flew Alaska Airlines once in 2006 from Vancouver to Los Angeles and had a fantastic crew and so I always remembered how good the airline was. Of cour...

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Flying Qantas from Norfolk Island to Sydney in business class on the Boeing 737-800

For all the pictures that go with this report, please click here . If you haven't heard of it, Norfolk Island is located 1,680km from Sydney out in the Pacific Ocean. Around 2,000 people live there and Qantas operate flights to the island. For years, it was Air New Zealand running the services, so o...

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Re: No drowning the Shamrock here! Aer Lingus Dublin to Chicago A330 Economy Class

I've always wondered why more places don't have US preclearance facilities. I guess agreements have to be made with the USA. Of course, then you need space in the terminals to have the facility. It's only in Dublin and Shannon in Ireland in Europe. Flying BHX-JFK next month via DUB so this is reall...

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No drowning the Shamrock here! Aer Lingus Dublin to Chicago A330 Economy Class

For all the pictures that go with this report, please click here! Since I'm a British Airways frequent flyer, I usually fly BA or one of the one world alliance airlines wherever possible. That means I rarely fly Aer Lingus out of my home city, which is a little bit weird, but that's just how it is. ...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

a7ala wrote:
QF and EK have applied for extension of their JV. I can only imagine hes talking it up for the regulators. Surely a return to ADL and starting CBR would be smarter moves (not saying CBR is a smart move).

I'm sure QR are going to be delighted by that, Al Baker doesn't seem to like this one bit!

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

EK could probably fill 2 premium heavy A380's out of SWZ everyday when it opens. There is a lot of cash circulating through western/south western Sydney. It's a real shame the people of Western Sydney don't have an airport now. How jealous they must feel of all the people in Eastern Sydney who can ...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

Have you seen the comments on Reddit about him? Now that is as much an echo chamber as anywhere else, but its instant downvotes as soon as you mention support for him. One only has to look at the “blame the leprechaun” comments on news sites and social media every time there is a critical/news item...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

The Australian media love QF issue stories, because people who hate Alan Joyce are quite passionate about it and bring in the clicks and shares on social media. I wouldn't go that far - re your comment about Alan Joyce. I remember when the Ansett 747-300 landed without a nosewheel, it was massive n...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

moa999 wrote:
And of course the first Sunrise deliveries due from 2025 (albeit wouldn't be surprised to see that slip).

Why?

It's not like Airbus are having the issues Boeing has.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Apparently loads of Business Class award availability has appeared on British Airways for Aer Lingus, according to Head For Points. https://www.headforpoints.com/2023/01/18/aer-lingus-business-class-avios-availability/ While they do show the BA website specifically in that article, the Avios redempt...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Azores was tried by Sunway and SATA and it sadly failed. I have been a few times including on the inaugural DUB - PDL all those years ago loved it and would go back again. The other times were day calls on cruise ships. I doubt the demand for EI is there its still a pretty specialist destination fr...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

One of the next EI longhaul routes will most likely be West to a seasonal Wintersun destination . Interesting - Azores? Everyone I know who goes absolutely RAVES about it. Or we talking Caribbean? Hopefully not St. Lucia (kinda snore!), Barbados? Antigua? If it's not West Indies, it's only USA, and...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Irish breakfast from the Bia menu . Free in Aer Space. Only one left from the earlier flight. No black pudding as advertised but its actually nicer especially from what I remember. Thanks for the pic! The black pudding is actually in the advertisement in the Bia menu - the white pudding is what has...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

The new Bia menu is back complete with Irish breakfast. https://www.aerlingus.com/media/pdfs/BIA_Spring22.pdf That Irish Breakfast looks a pity of its former self. €10 for very little ….you gotta be mighty hungry to go down that route. Much better offerings available prior to boarding in the termin...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

I would consider myself incredibly tech savvy, but I still book flights 95% of the time on a computer. It’s just easier. This is such a stupid move, especially considering their target market probably take 1-2 trips a year at most. Same here - I find it much easier as there is more space on the scr...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Looks like Ryanair have increased the package for cabin crew. The current ad says - "Joining Ryanair as a Cabin Crew in Dublin will provide you with a PERMANENT and DIRECT Ryanair contract, offering you discount travel to over 230 destinations while providing an excellent salary package of up t...

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Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2023

I would consider myself incredibly tech savvy, but I still book flights 95% of the time on a computer. It’s just easier. This is such a stupid move, especially considering their target market probably take 1-2 trips a year at most. Same here - I find it much easier as there is more space on the scr...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

- Treatment of customers during IRROPS as evidenced by complaints from passengers when EAV went tech for instance. - Lack of passenger information until recently for customers flying on EIK/L including business class passengers. - Examples of attempts to charge passengers in Aerspace discussed prev...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

I keep hearing people say how it’s a profitable strategy but how sustainable is it and for how long? Unless you’re FR or similar I simply cannot see how complete contempt for customers is going to get an airline anywhere long term. I’d never have rated EI as on par with EU legacies (fine, it wasn’t...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

AerClub shouldn’t depend on OneWorld. Prior to them joining, AS had partnerships with numerous airlines from EK to EI. Aer Lingus codeshare with IB but there’s zero recognition of status from one to the other. Despite there being BA codes on almost every EI DUB-UK flight, BA golds get no lounge exc...

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