Pilot strike incoming
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Anonymous
| We have tickets on Aer Lingus in 5 weeks. The pilots plan on striking this week, meaning about 20% of flights may have disruption on any given day. Is it possible that this will go on for 5 weeks?? Who remembers something like this in the past and how did it play out? It looks like I could buy tickets on another airline (for almost double what I paid 6 months ago and not necessarily nonstop) that would be fully refundable, but I don't know, that seems like a lot of money to lay out....I am conflicted...thoughts? I do have travel insurance, but if your flight is cancelled aer lingus will refund you anyways, doubtful the insurance will pay me the balance on new flights that I buy in advance... |
Anonymous
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Find other things to stress about. First, the long-haul flights are usually the ones they don't cancel duringa a strike. Instead, they reduce frequency on flights with more than one 1daily flight, like Dublin-London goes from 10 flights a day to 6 or something.
Second, if you do get cancelled, they will reacommodate you on another routing, probably on the British Airways flight via London as both airlines are in OneWorld. If this happens, have your options ready to propose to them, so you get what you want. |
Anonymous
| thx PP--I actually just found a list of the already cancelled ones for next week and only one transatlantic is on the list 10 times, the round trip JFK, as opposed to the 25 ones to/from London. |
Anonymous
Ummm. Which ones from London? Do you have a link? |
Anonymous
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/travel/2024/06/22/full-list-of-the-more-than-215-aer-lingus-flight-cancellations/ |
Anonymous
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I can't find the site I was using earlier on a different device, which allowed you to search all the flights by keyword, but here's just a list by date.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-the-full-list-of-aer-lingus-flights-cancelled-so-far/a1776088993.html |