Aer Lingus

Aer Arann and Aer Lingus have signed an Interline Agreement that allows customers to directly connect to Aer Lingus transatlantic services from Cork Airport. From today, bookings can be made on aerlingus.com directly both to and from Cork to all seven Aer Lingus USA destinations in one single booking transaction.

Aer Lingus has announced its short haul winter schedule for 2008 from Dublin with a new twice weekly service to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, along with new winter services to Hamburg and the re-introduction of Newcastle, Salzburg and Agadir.

Aer Lingus is to increase its long haul fuel surcharge on routes to the US, effective from Wednesday, 11 June 2008. This follows continuing increases in the price of oil in recent weeks. No fuel surcharge is applied on any of the 82 short haul routes operated by Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus has announced its winter schedule for 2008/09 from Cork Airport with the addition of a new service from Cork to Geneva. This brings to 18 the number of routes operated by the airline from Cork.

Aer Lingus is to increase its long haul fuel surcharge on routes to the US, effective from Wednesday, 14 May 2008. The increase is as a direct result of the record upsurge in the price of oil in recent weeks and the airline's rising fuel bill. No fuel surcharge is applied on any of the 82 short haul routes operated by Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus today announced that it will increase its checked baggage fee for all passengers on short haul services from Thursday, 8th May. Baggage fees are not applied to long haul services.

Aer Lingus today celebrates its 50th anniversary of transatlantic flying, marking the dawn of the first Aer Lingus Transatlantic flight which left Dublin and Shannon for New York in 1958.

Aer Lingus announces that it will offer all of the customers who made bookings during the reservation error of Wednesday 16 April the option to travel in economy class at the price of their original booking.

Aer Lingus and United Airlines, a leading US domestic and international airline, have today announced that they will commence a codeshare agreement that will enable seamless booking on each other's flights from 1 November, 2008. The agreement was signed by Aer Lingus CEO Dermot Mannion and United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton in Chicago.

Aer Lingus is to increase its long haul fuel surcharge on routes to the US, effective from Saturday, 29 March 2008. The increase is as a direct result of the record upsurge in the price of oil in recent weeks and the airline's rising fuel bill. The fuel surcharge will increase on flights to and from Ireland to Orlando, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Aer Lingus expects to carry in excess of 125,000 passengers into and out of Ireland across all of the airline's routes to and from the UK, Europe and the United States over this busy Easter Bank Holiday period, Friday 21st to Monday 24th March inclusive. This is an increase of nearly 20% from Easter last year.

Aer Lingus has announced that it will operate a special one off flight to Moscow (Sheremetyevo airport) for Irish football fans wishing to travel to the 2008 Champions League Final. The service will operate on Wednesday 21st May from Dublin and Thursday 22nd May from Moscow to bring passengers to and from the match.

Aer Lingus today announced details of its winter schedule from Dublin and Shannon airports. From the end of October Aer Lingus will operate double daily flights from Dublin to New York, daily flights from Dublin to Boston, four flights a week from Dublin to Washington and from Dublin to San Francisco and three flights a week from Dublin to Los Angeles and from Dublin to Orlando.

Aer Lingus today announced a new service from Dublin to Bourgas in Bulgaria. The new service marks the first Aer Lingus scheduled flight to Bulgaria and moreover, the only scheduled service from Ireland.

Aer Lingus Group plc has announced that it has exercised its rights under an agreement entered into with Airbus SAS in 2003 regarding the acquisition of four A320-200 aircraft.

Aer Lingus today formally announced that it is continuing its successful partnership with Mondial Assistance Ireland to administer travel insurance solutions for its European customers.

Aer Lingus today announced details of its Four Day Only Seat Sale offering some of the lowest fares ever offered to its customers on routes to 10 Top European destinations.

Aer Lingus Group plc today announced a new service from Belfast International to Paris, Charles de Gaulle beginning 30 March. The new service will operate on a daily basis with fares as low as £25 one-way including taxes and charges.

The Aer Lingus website, aerlingus.com, passed a significant milestone in January, selling over one million seats in just one month. This is the first time in its history that over one million seats have been sold in a single month, underlying the huge demand by customers for Aer Lingus' great choice of destinations, low fares and excellent customer service.

Aer Lingus, Ireland's low-cost, low-fares airline and its US counterpart low-fare, high-frills JetBlue Airways Corporation have officially announced their industry-first strategic partnership will come into effect on April 3, 2008.

The Aer Lingus website, aerlingus.com, passed a significant milestone in January, selling over one million seats in just one month. This is the first time in its history that over one million seats have been sold in a single month, underling the huge demand by customers for Aer Lingus' great choice of destinations, low fares and excellent customer service.

Aer Lingus' "January World Clearance Sale" reached record levels on Monday (21st January), with almost 51,000 seats booked on the airlines website, Aerlingus.com, in just one day. This is the highest level of online sales achieved in one day so far this year, and is a 50% increase on the same day last year.

Aer Lingus customers are set to benefit from a new partnership with lastminute.com, which has been appointed as Aer Lingus' hotel partner to provide hotel accommodation for its passengers through Aerlingus.com. lastminute.com won the contract due to their highly competitive product and range of accommodation on offer.

Aer Lingus began operations from its new Belfast base today putting the seal on a €150 million (Sterling £100 million) investment announced in August. Three A320 aircraft will be based at Belfast International Airport, flying to nine European destinations and supporting up to 100 direct jobs as well as around 500 indirect posts in the first year.

Aer Lingus is this week celebrating a milestone 10 million bookings through Aerlingus.com since the website started in 2001. In its first year of operation, web bookings represented a single figure percentage of all bookings whereas today that number is 72%, reflecting the significant changes in passenger preferences over the past six years.

Aer Lingus has confirmed that the company will engage directly with staff over the next 48 hours in an effort to conclude the cost savings PCI initiative and to avert industrial action at the airline, which has been planned by SIPTU for the 20th and 23rd of November.

Aer Lingus today announced plans to add 3 new aircraft to its short-haul fleet for 2008 and operate a total of 86 routes, 59 from Dublin, 18 from Cork and 9 from its new Belfast base.

Aer Lingus is to increase its long haul fuel surcharge with effect from Thursday 1 November 2007 as a result of recent trends in the price of oil. The fuel surcharge on long haul flights to/from Ireland to New York, Boston & Washington will rise to £35 per sector, on flights to/from Chicago, Orlando & Dubai will rise to £40 per sector while flights to/from Ireland to Los Angeles and San Francisco to £45 per sector.

Following successful negotiations over the weekend at the LRC between the company and IALPA in an effort to resolve outstanding issues with the pilots over the opening of the Belfast base, Aer Lingus has confirm that the threat of disruption to services this week has been lifted and the airline will be operating a full schedule.

Aer Lingus has confirmed it is to take legal proceedings to force Ryanair to dispose of its shareholding in Aer Lingus. This follows confirmation by Philip Lowe, the E.U.'s Director General for Competition, that the European Commission is to adopt a decision that the Merger Regulation does not give it the legal authority to force the sale of Ryanair's stake following its prohibition of Ryanair's bid for Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus has moved to impose an immediate pay freeze on all staff pending agreement on implementation of the Programme for Continuous Improvement (PCI 07). This means that the remaining increases of 5% under "Towards 2016" and other annual increments due of 2.5% will not now be paid until further notice.

The Board of Aer Lingus Group plc has today (17th September 2007) written to the Directors of Ryanair Holdings plc rejecting a second request from Ryanair to convene an EGM, stating “the aim of which is to interfere with and frustrate the commercial and operational performance of Ryanair's most resilient competitor.”

Strike action by Aer Lingus Pilots which was due to take place on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd August has been suspended. Aer Lingus will resume a full short haul schedule with a number of cancellations on its long haul operation as listed below.

Aer Lingus hopes to operate a limited schedule of European flights in order to minimise the disruption to customers due to the strike action by IALPA. The company continues to be under notice of strike action by IALPA for Tuesday 21st August and Wednesday 22nd August.

Aer Lingus has announced that it will become the first airline in Europe to launch a new route under Open Skies when its inaugural flight from Dublin to Washington DC taking place last weekend.

Following extensive evaluation of growth opportunities throughout Europe, Aer Lingus announces its first base outside the Republic of Ireland at Belfast International Airport (BFS). Three A320 aircraft will be based at BFS and will primarily serve London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol.

Aer Lingus, the Irish low-cost, low-fares airline today announced that it will commence scheduled services between Dublin and London Gatwick from the end of October 2007.

The Board of Aer Lingus has welcomed the EU Commission's prohibition decision, relating to Ryanair's hostile bid, announced on Wednesday, June 27, following an exhaustive investigation of the competition issues surrounding the unwelcome bid.

Aer Lingus has announced a substantial expansion of its long haul fleet. The Airline has selected the new Airbus A350 XWB (extra wide body) and A330-300E (enhanced) aircraft to underpin its long haul growth strategy. This follows an extensive evaluation process and intensive negotiations and will allow the Airline to double its long haul fleet to fourteen Airbus aircraft by 2014.

Aer Lingus today announced details of its winter schedule from Shannon airport. From the end of October Aer Lingus will operate daily direct flights from Shannon to Boston, daily direct flights from Shannon to New York and daily flights to Chicago via Dublin.

Aer Lingus has introduced six new European routes to its winter schedule and twenty-five new flights a week from Dublin and Cork on existing routes.

Aer Lingus has increased its long haul fuel surcharge with effect from Wednesday 09 May 2007 as a result of recent trends in the price of oil.

Aer Lingus has announced that it has entered into a Partnership with Special Olympics Ireland for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Aer Lingus as Official Airline will provide return flights for Team Ireland and TEAM 2007, transporting the 143 athletes, 55 coaches and 200 volunteers on board an Airbus A321 from Dublin to London Heathrow airport on 27th and 29th September and welcoming the team aboard on their return journey on 12th and 13th October from London Heathrow to Dublin airport.

Aer Lingus today announced a number of enhancements to Aerlingus.com that will offer passengers the choice to pre-book additional seat options and travel insurance online. From the end of May customers may choose to pre-book seating in the first five seat rows at a charge of €10, an exit row seat at a charge of €15 and all remaining at a charge of €3.

Aer Lingus has hailed yesterday’s ratification of the Open Skies agreement in Brussels as a momentous development for Irish aviation and has confirmed plans to commence three new long haul services to the US before the end of the year.

Aer Lingus is to reduce long haul fuel surcharges by 25% on all tickets booked for flights to and from the US and the Middle East from midnight on the 12th February 2007. The fuel surcharge reduction represents a decrease of €10/US$15 each way and comes as a result of decreasing international oil prices.

Banish those winter blues with over 500,000 seats on offer to the UK, Europe, USA & the Middle East for travel in January, February, & March Fares from €24 one-way including taxes and charges.

Aer Lingus, "Celebrating 70 years of serving Ireland" is to commence direct scheduled flights to Lithuania for the first time with the announcement of a thrice weekly Dublin to Vilnius service commencing May 2007. Aer Lingus will also commence services to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain from next March operating twice weekly, making it the 14th Spanish destination to be served by the airline.