I arrived at a quiet and clean Dublin airport and was quickly directed to the fairly vast Aer Lingus area in Terminal 2.
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We redeemed 30,000 Alaska Airlines' Mileage Plan miles plus $57.75 in taxes and fees.ĭo check however cash fares, as Aer Lingus tickets across the Atlantic can be remarkably cheap, which makes using points less attractive.įor more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Booking an award seat on British Airways from PHL to London Heathrow (LHR) during an off-peak period would also cost 13,000 Avios, but with $229 added in taxes and fees.įor this flight, however, we took advantage of the partnership between Alaska Airlines and Aer Lingus to make a last-minute booking. For example, if you're flying during off-peak dates you can find availability from Philadelphia (PHL) to Dublin (DUB) for 13,000 Avios in economy and just over $100. One of the advantages of flying with Aer Lingus is that you can use Avios to book, with significantly cheaper taxes and booking fees than other airlines. With three in the fleet of the long-haul A321neoLR variant and five more to come, plus six of the even longer-range XLR model, you can bet that Aer Lingus will put it on flights to more destinations soon. It currently flies from Dublin to Philadelphia, Newark and Hartford, Connecticut, as well as Shannon to Boston. Most of Aer Lingus' 14 destinations in North America are served by twin-aisle Airbus A330 jets and a single-aisle Boeing 757, but the A321neo is appearing on more and more routes across the Atlantic. So when we had to fly TPG UK staffers from London to New York for the 2019 TPG Awards in December, UK Director of Content Nicky Kelvin took the Aer Lingus A321neo in business class from Dublin to Philadelphia, and I did the same, in economy. The A321neo is an interesting aircraft: a single-aisle plane crossing the Atlantic, something that used to be rare but is becoming more common. The launch of Aer Lingus' new A321neo routes to North America in 2019 was the perfect occasion to try out the Irish flag carrier's latest product, in lie-flat business class and economy. Fares have already been loaded into the booking systems so if this is a route that interests you, yu can book right away.Here at The Points Guy we're all about testing out new ways to get from A to B. Bottom lineĪer Lingus will launch a new seasonal route between Dublin and Cleveland on (I have no idea why) using its A321LR aircraft. Seat in Economy Class rows 14 and 15 are the ones to book (if you can) because these are the A321LR’s exit rows so the seats here will offer considerably more legroom than those in the rows around them. On the one hand, the A321 offers standard Economy Class seats that are 18″ wide (generous for transatlantic Economy Class), while on the other hand, most of the seats offer just 31” of legroom…which is tight. The A321LR comes equipped with 16 lie-flat Business Class seats and 168 standard Economy Class seats and the Business Class layout will look familiar to anyone who has flown in JetBlue’s A321 Mint Cabin because the two are very similar.Īer Lingus A321LR Business Class Seat MapĪs the seat map above shows, the best solo traveler seats are the seats in rows 3 and 5 (this aircraft doesn’t have a “row 1″) while there’s not much to separate the pairs of seats elsewhere in the cabin. Sure, a little part of me is wondering if the airline misread “Lake Erie” for “Lake Eire” and that it thinks that it’s launching a new route to a large population of Irish descent, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a well thought out plan 😁
It has been far too long since we had a transatlantic route announcement that was a little bit different and that made me sit up in my chair and question whether I’d read the announcement correctly, so it’s great to see Aer Lingus bringing us something new.
That, however, is exactly the route that Aer Lingus has now announced that it plans to fly. If you sat me down and asked me to name as many transatlantic routes as I can (both existing and potential), I’m not sure that the Dublin to Cleveland route would appear in my first thousand guesses. For more details please see the disclosures found at the bottom of every page. Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any of these entities. Traveling For Miles and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Traveling For Miles has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Some links to products and travel providers on this website will earn Traveling For Miles a commission that helps contribute to the running of the site.
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