When Irish Flights Are Soaring!

Aer Lingus has increased capacity on its daily Manchester to New York services boosting available seats on each flight by 72% over the summer.

The move comes just over a year after the airline began its first direct transatlantic flights to New York from its then North of England hub, which initially operated on a single-aisle Airbus A321LR.

Replacing the A321LR with a larger twin-aisled Airbus A330 now enables Aer Lingus to redeploy its A321LR aircraft onto transatlantic routes out of Dublin, including to Hartford, which launched last month, as well as Dublin to Cleveland, which takes off in May.

Previously, the A321LR offered 184 daily departing seats from Manchester to JFK, but from today, that number will rise to 317 - 71% more seat availability in Economy, (up by 119 to 287) - and an 88% increase in fully lie-flat Business Class seats (up by 14 to 30).

Customers can choose from 270,000 seats on sale from Manchester to the US, with Aer Lingus’ biggest summer schedule yet, thanks to bigger aircraft and the extra capacity on its transatlantic routes

The success of Aer Lingus’ Manchester based operations has contributed towards its ambitious network expansion, offering yet more choice of routes and destinations from the north of the UK.

This summer, Aer Lingus will fly daily and direct from Manchester to New York JFK and to Orlando in North America, with seasonal winter services to Barbados due to restart in November.

Its three transatlantic services complement the carrier’s daily services from Manchester to Dublin (up to six a day), with seamless onward connections to 13 transatlantic routes, via quick and easy pre-clearance facilities at their Dublin Hub.