About Aer Lingus United Arab Emirates
We are talking about the flag carrier airline of Ireland, Aer Lingus which is considered to be the second-largest airline in Ireland.
The airline also offered its services in Dubai since 2006 but was terminated in early 2008 after the financial crisis started to take hold.
The company now has the main focus on 93 destinations and has generated a revenue of €2.2 billion in the financial year 2018 with approx of 4,000 employees.
When it got started?
Aer Lingus got started on 15th April 1936 but commercially operations began on 27th May 1936. The airline company was initially under the Irish government but was privatized between 2006 and 2015.
Now the company is a subsidiary of International Airlines Group which is a parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling. The head office of the company is placed in Dublin Airport in Cloghran and County Dublin, Ireland.
The airline also carried out operations in the United Arab Emirates under a deal with Emirates, a Dubai based airline to allow two carriers to feed
traffic into each other’s networks in 2005. The following year they scheduled the start of new direct service to Dubai from Dublin.
They are also allowed to sell joint tickets involving the Dubai route with some additional destinations on the list served by Emirates but this decision was terminated in 2008.
What did they offer through a code-share agreement with Etihad Airways?
In 2012, the Etihad Airways and Aer Lingus went for code-share arrangement to corporate on flights between Abu Dhabi and Dublin and provide full access to flights across the network beyond the United Arab Emirates to Australia, Asia-Pacific, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East thus cooperating in services to 18 destinations including New York, London Heathrow, Boston, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Boston, Lisbon, Amsterdam and Manchester.
They also signed for discussion on additional commercial and cost opportunities to develop a closer working relationship in areas such as joint procurement.
What’s new on the list?
Recently, the news came from Etihad of reducing the number of Aer Lingus flights from Dublin to Abu Dhabi with 11 services each week from 27th June to 15 September 2019.
References
https://www.aerlingus.com/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_Lingus