Aer Lingus is planning to commence Dublin-Denver and Dublin-Minneapolis service deploying its 266-seater A330-200 on the route, marking Aer Lingus as the first airline to commence Dublin-Denver route. The route will commence from May 17 with four weekly flights.
The airline will resume the Minneapolis route after temporarily suspending the operations during pandemic. The airline will commence the route on May 1, with four weekly flights.
Aer Lingus began operating on the Dublin-Minneapolis from July 2019 with daily flights on B757s wet leased from ASL Airlines, Ireland. Now the airline will switch to a larger aircraft version with A330.
These two additions bring the total number of Aer Lingus routes operated between Ireland and North America to 18.
Aer Lingus has planned 19 US and Canada routes next summer from Dublin (15), Shannon (two), and Manchester (two) and expects 148 weekly departing flights from Europe to North America next July (double for both ways). That is up 29% versus the 115 in pre-pandemic July 2019 and 6% more than in July 2023.