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 Aer Lingus Flights – Pride of Ireland
Aer Lingus Teoranta was registered as an airline on 22 May 1936, as a joint venture with Blackpool and West Coast Air Services. The name is an Anglicisation of the Irish form Aer Loingeas which means Air Fleet (as does Aeroflot, the Russian airline. Five days after being founded the airline opened its first service between Baldonnel Airfield in Dublin and Bristol, England, using a six-seater De Havilland 84 Dragon. In 1994, Aer Lingus started direct services between Dublin and the United States using the Airbus A330. In 2005, the airline announced their first scheduled service to Asia from March 2006 to Dubai International Airport.
Flights From Aer Lingus – Growing fleet
In January 1940, a new airport was completed in the Dublin suburb of Collinstown and became home to Aer Lingus’ operations. The airline has plans for expansion in the long-haul programme which currently serves Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Dubai, Orlando and San Francisco. Aer Lingus has an extensive short-haul European network, ideal for city breaks, with 84 destinations – although some of these are only offered on a seasonal basis – and has announced 5 new routes from Dublin to Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bucharest, Funchal (Madeira), and Agadir (Morocco). Their fleet consists of 40 Airbuses of various sizes with more on order.
Aer Lingus – By papal demand
On 22 March 2007, The European Union and the US signed the ‘open skies’ agreement, de-regulating North Atlantic air travel and allowing European airlines to fly into any American city and vice-versa for American airlines. The company are to establish a new base at Belfast International with new destinations including Rome, Barcelona, Faro, Malaga, Geneva, Nice and Budapest. In September 1979, Aer Lingus became the first airline other than Alitalia to be used by Pope John Paul II. The pontiff flew aboard a specially modified Boeing 747 (EI-ASI or St. Patrick) from Rome to Dublin and later from Shannon to Boston.
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