Aer Lingus

[dinny]

Dinny , they have been like that a long time now. I remember a few years ago , if you had a choice of who to fly with to the same destination , you would always choose Aer Lingus , but now it’s the opposite. They have gone downhill. They were flying from Lanzarote to Dublin last week and forgot to put enough fuel in the plane , so had to divert to Faro after a half hour. Ridiculous.

That is a unbelievable Bo....and so dangerous .....I will think twice before I travel with them again

[bojangles]

That is an unbelievable Bo....and so dangerous .....I will think twice before I travel with them again

They are never on time , whereas Ryanair take time keeping very seriously.

[ob1kenobi.23]

They're privatised now so profit is god.
I think Willie Walsh left IAG & it's run by a Spaniard now.

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They're privatised now so profit is god.
I think Willie Walsh left IAG & it's run by a Spaniard now.

Willie Walsh tried to buy Aer Lingus years ago. Bertie Ahern blocked it. In hindsight it was a bad idea.

[ob1kenobi.23]

Willie Walsh tried to buy Aer Lingus years ago. Bertie Ahern blocked it. In hindsight it was a bad idea.

Did he ry to buy it for himself or BA.

[bojangles]

Did he ry to buy it for himself or BA.

FROM HIS WIKIPEDIA ENTRY

In October 2001, Walsh was elevated from COO to CEO of Aer Lingus, succeeding Michael Foley, who had resigned following a harassment complaint.^[4][5] The carrier was in financial difficulty. Walsh eliminated 2,000 staff positions and reconfigured Aer Lingus as a low-cost airline.^[6] He also withdrew various services like short-haul Business Class^[7] and restricted the airline's frequent-flyer programme, TAB.^{[citation needed]}

The company operating profits rebounded, but the cost of the write-offs and redundancies meant that net profitability was not as quick to recover. Not all of Walsh's reforms were successful, such as the outsourcing of aircraft cleaning. The contracting had not been agreed with Aer Lingus unions, which led to large payments to the private contractor while Aer Lingus employees did the cleaning work. A three-day lock-out occurred in 2002 during the peak of the cutbacks.^{[citation needed]}

The management team suggested to the principal shareholder, the Irish Government, a float of Aer Lingus on the stock market. Stock floats are often rewarding to top management and this was opposed by the unions who feared a privatised Aer Lingus would impose even tougher working conditions. The Government eventually turned down the float, and Walsh resigned from the company in January 2005.^[8]

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern subsequently described Walsh's offer of an MBO as "a time when management wanted to steal the assets for themselves through a management buy out, shafting staff interests".^[9]

Dermot Mannion, formerly of Emirates, succeeded Walsh as Aer Lingus chief executive officer in August 2005.^[10]

He went to British Airways, where he would replace Rod Eddington at the end of his contract.^[2] Walsh was hired in May 2005, with a six-month shadowing period to get to know the business before the departure of Eddington in October 2005.^[2]

[dinny]

Booked Aer Lingus flight to Bordeaux ....was to Fly out at 11.50am on Thursday last , booked a taxi to the airport and only one I could get was at 8.15am that morning , so I was in the airport and checked in by 9am.....went to departures only to be told that flight was delayed until 2pm......Got on the plane at 2pm sitting in seat for about 15 mins only to be told to get off again as the plane was not fit to fly.
Got on another plane and took of about 3.40pm......arrived in Bordeaux at about 6.30pm.....20 mins getting through passport control....then 50mins waiting for bags to be loaded on to conveyor belt.....another 20mins to get a tram to hotel ...9.20pm checking into hotel....whole day wasted we were supposed to arrive in a 3pm.....also on flight home on arrival at Dublin airport ...we were 45 minutes waiting on bags to arrive at the belt , we were at belt 5 the belt with the Bordeaux baggage sign ... and of course the bag started coming out at belt one....45 minutes later.....I will never give out about Ryanair again .....Aer lingus are hopeless..

Decided to apply for compensation from Aer Lingus on Saturday for the delays......believe it or not got a text about an hour ago to say i'm entitled to 250 euro for each person....so 500 euro will be deposited into my account in the next few days......Great company that Aer Lingus !!!!!!

[Twobob]

Decided to apply for compensation from Aer Lingus on Saturday for the delays......believe it or not got a text about an hour ago to say i'm entitled to 250 euro for each person....so 500 euro will be deposited into my account in the next few days......Great company that Aer Lingus !!!!!!

Nice one ....... use them again ? .

[dinny]

Nice one ....... use them again ? .

Yes.....And hope i'm delayed again....lol

[ob1kenobi.23]

I wonder if Michael O'Leary would do that.

[bigby]

Decided to apply for compensation from Aer Lingus on Saturday for the delays......believe it or not got a text about an hour ago to say i'm entitled to 250 euro for each person....so 500 euro will be deposited into my account in the next few days......Great company that Aer Lingus !!!!!!

I really like this post, well done Dinny

[dinny]

I really like this post, well done Dinny

Thanks bigby ....wasn't going to bother ....and wasn't expecting anything back...thought they would come up with some excuse not to pay out

[bojangles]

I wonder if Michael O'Leary would do that.

He would have to , it’s the law now. Aer Lingus wouldn’t have done it either if they could get away with it.

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