Aer Lingus ends flights between Belfast City and Heathrow

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• inizii says:

  22 Oct22 October 06:19

  Aer Lingus move must be tactical. Aer Lingus UK Ltd is headquartered in Belfast and supports the Manchester base.
  A flight search on BA app for BHD-LHR in Feb shows the operator of BA code shares as Aer Lingus UK Ltd on behalf of Aer Lingus. Given the number of interline agreements Aer Lingus has, the route is almost always busy. Three flights per day will not work even for BA who take code share feeder traffic (Virgin have interline agreement) from the Aer Lingus slots.

  • SamG says:

    22 Oct22 October 10:31

    They only have the LR A321 and A330 on the UK cert. CAA are not allowing EI reg aircraft to operate EI UK coded flights (Ryanair have same issue) so they’ve no way to operate these currently without putting A320s on the UK cert which is inefficient for them to do one imagines for one route.

    Better for BA to operate more flights and EI to operate more of the Dublin flights

    • inizii says:

      22 Oct22 October 11:54

      Thank you Sam – that explains it. As others say another Brexit “benefit”…
      3 flights BHD – LHR insufficient and BA cannot be trusted not to cancel some.
      Might have preserved the slots using EI Regional / Emerald with ATR72 on their UK licenses.

• slidey says:

  22 Oct22 October 07:01

  City Premios members are about to get bonvoy’d.

• KevinS says:

  22 Oct22 October 07:23

  Dividend

• Paul says:

  22 Oct22 October 07:56

  Aer Lingus pulls off route – another Brexit benefit!
  BA- thank you, now raise fares. – yet another Brexit benefit.
  Win win really!!
  Brexit, the gift that keeps giving!

• Philip says:

  22 Oct22 October 08:10

  Aer Lingus pullout is a fiasco for those of us in Northern Ireland who use it to get to London. Fares were generally cheaper than BA. And Aer Lingus are (until 31/1/23) still offering a (up to 7 days in advance of flight date) covid “Book with Confidence” scheme which BA dumped ages ago.

  The sunlit uplands of Brexit. But … blue passports now available 🙂

• Mary P says:

  22 Oct22 October 08:15

  The passports are black

  • Paul says:

    22 Oct22 October 09:59

    They were but they are blue now. Sadly with greatly reduced usability!

  • Points Hound says:

    22 Oct22 October 13:18

    They are definitely blue.

    • Mary P says:

      22 Oct22 October 16:29

      Eye test for Points Hound!

      • Points Hound says:

        22 Oct22 October 21:46

        Numpty test for Mary P. They are Blue, advertised as blue, are blue, look blue, are blue in person (I have one), the government and UK passport office describe them as blue, as does wikipedia and the UK media.

        You need to go and give your head a wobble, or admit you’re colour blind.

        • Rob says:

          23 Oct23 October 06:25

          They’re not, not really.

          Think about clothing. The reason suits are navy is that sunlight makes them appear black. Black actually looks less black under bright light.

          Basically, dark navy – to the human eye – appears ‘darker’ than black under lighting and we have 200 years of mens suiting to prove it.

• apbj says:

  22 Oct22 October 08:15

  “Going forward, British Airways will operate three daily flights from Belfast City to Heathrow.”

  Eh? BA already operates daily flights LHR-BHD. Should this be three additional daily flights (replacing the usual three EI services)?

  • Rob says:

    22 Oct22 October 08:29

    Timetable just shows the 3 BA flights.

• Paul says:

  22 Oct22 October 08:51

  There was a time when you could turn up and go when the flight was filled to BFS on the BA shuttle.

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