Aer Lingus Announces Increased Flight Frequency On Certain Routes
Robert JonesIt now appears that business travelers will be seeing an increase in frequency on flights from the UK region to Dublin and Cork, following a franchise deal between Aer Lingus and regional carrier Aer Arann. The regional carrier will operate 12 routes as Aer Lignus Regional starting March 28th. This will include such new routes as Dublin to Doncaster and Cork to Glasgow.
Capacity will also be added the Dublin – Edinburgh route. These routes will operate three times a day with two new frequencies provided by Aer Arann, supplementing existing Aer Lingus flights. Frequency on the Aer Lingus route from Dublin to Glasgow will increase up to four times a day.
Aer Arann’s existing services from Dublin to Blackpool and Cardiff and from Cork to Cardiff, Bristol and Edinburgh will take the Aer Lingus brand. Under this new franchise agreement, Aer Arann’s 72-seater aircraft will be repainted to replace Aer Lingus’s 174-seat Airbus A320.
Andrew Kelly, the Aer Arann’s corporate affairs director, said that the smaller aircraft would enable the routes to be viable and act as a feeder service for Aer Lingus’s transatlantic routes. He went on to say that they are taking the A320 routes and doubling frequencies. On routes where Aer Lingus was doing one or two a day, they will do four.
He went on to say that Aer Arann is trying to move away from being a point to point airline to become more of a regional feeder service. He went on to say that if a traveler is in Durham or Doncaster and wants to go to the United States, it will be easier to go to Dublin and go through United States emigration and customs there than to go to the London airport.
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