Aer Lingus delays the launch of its USA services from Manchester

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• Alex Sm says:

  17 Jun17 June 07:40

  I miss Taste of London and BA flight attendants in wellies. May check the ALL offer and get a dinner – surprised that the event is going tbh

  • Rob says:

    17 Jun17 June 08:19

    It’s an outdoor food festival. Where’s the risk?

    Wimbledon is running at 100% capacity for the final days. I had an email yesterday to say that (annoyingly for my large legs) the empty seats surrounding our seats will now be sold.

    • Babyg says:

      17 Jun17 June 10:44

      you would rather have reduced audiences?, covid aside id rather be in a packed out stadium, its all part of the atmosphere – i am one trying for the tickets at 1pm today – perhaps ill be taking your leg room :-)…… ps if happy to take your cramped seats/tickets off your hands….

      • Rob says:

        17 Jun17 June 11:34

        If you’re 6’2’+ nothing beats the feeling of attending a seated event and realising no-one is going to turn up to fill the seat next to you 🙂

        I sat in the (unused) press seats on Centre Court once – they have great legroom.

        • Babyg says:

          17 Jun17 June 14:35

          well, tix were hard to get (for us mortals)… managed to get some no.2 court seats for july3… wasnt as difficult as usual to be fair!

      • TGLoyalty says:

        17 Jun17 June 12:29

        We want the rest of the stadium full just not the ones near us

        or more legroom would be great

        • PJJ says:

          17 Jun17 June 15:23

          @Babyg
          Luck you. I had 2 x mens semi-final tickets in my basket, filled the credit card details out, then came the dreaded c/c identification password. That never arrived and the booking timed out
          NOT A HAPPY CHAPPY

        • Iain says:

          17 Jun17 June 18:49

          I kept getting a failure because box not ticked….but it was. infuriating.

          Then time out and 40000 in the queue

• BJ says:

  17 Jun17 June 08:51

  If these flights ever launch at all then I doubt they will survive long without codeshares with AA. Hard to see them competing with UA and/or Delta should they get seriously back into MAN. It doesn’t have the market to sustain point to point, even on small aircraft, or services would already hace existed.

  • Rob says:

    17 Jun17 June 09:07

    A BA codeshare deal has already been agreed, and once Aer Lingus joins the transatlantic JV they will carry Finnair, Iberia and AA codes too.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    17 Jun17 June 09:08

    But these aren’t normal times and the dynamic around the route/use of aircraft may have changed favourably. Although not in the short term, hence it being postponed.

  • ChrisW says:

    17 Jun17 June 09:11

    I’m not sure I agree. The A321 is a fairly small aircraft to fill up and NYC is always popular even without onward connections.

    Orlando is not an AA hub so there would only be connections onto hubs that AA/others may already serve direct from MAN.

    Boston I agree may struggle as a P2P.

    • Sean says:

      19 Jun19 June 22:11

      As a Manchester lad living in Boston it’s great news this flight is back on the cards. The old AA daily MAN-BOS flight always flew full until AA and Manchester Airport had a dust up in 2008-ish over a fixed time slot and AA took their ball home!

  • Bagoly says:

    17 Jun17 June 17:56

    “services would already have existed.”
    But previously there were no aircraft that small with sufficient range.

• Concerto says:

  17 Jun17 June 10:34

  Isn’t there a new offer from Accor, with double points on bookings until mid September?

• AndrewM says:

  17 Jun17 June 11:29

  My wife works for BA, hopefully we will be able to use Staff travel to travel in Business Class from Manchester. Avoids having to travel to Heathrow or to Gatwick.

• TomG says:

  17 Jun17 June 13:43

  Did I see the BA S22 schedule posted here yesterday or did I hallucinate it – very possible at this stage! A coworker had his MAN-MCO with EI canceled and he is looking for the S22 BA schedule so if someone could point me in the right direction I’d be grateful.

• Chrism20 says:

  17 Jun17 June 20:04

  I quite fancy trying Taste, however I have tables reserved at Signature Aberdeen for Richard Corrigan, Daniel Clifford and Glyn Purnell which has rather blown the dining budget until further notice.

  I requested tables for those three in the hope of getting one of them and got the call for all three.

• Will in SJC says:

  18 Jun18 June 04:30

  Rob- appreciate you aren’t an Av Geek (like Rhys?) but you might want to amend the EI article to make it clear that these routes are operated by the A321NeoLR as EI call them.

  Slightly confusing that you call them 321 Neos in one para (which would imply they are similar to BAs NEOs with CE) and in the next as 321 LR (which means decent J seats as you say).

  • Rob says:

    18 Jun18 June 08:20

    Fair point.

• ian says:

  18 Jun18 June 05:48

  Why can’t I book JFK-MAN but I can book MAN-JFK? When will this be possible?

  • Rob says:

    18 Jun18 June 08:19

    When Aer Lingus UK is licensed in the US.

    It can’t legally fly in the UK yet either, but in the UK it seems not having CAA approval doesn’t stop you selling tickets.

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