Willie Walsh and International Consolidated Airlines’ Group (IAG) were obviously keen yesterday to demonstrate that they are as good as their word about backing plans to expand Aer Lingus’s reach across the Atlantic.

Yesterday, the airline announced plans to fly to Los Angeles, Newark and Hartford, Connecticut, from next year. The LA service, five days a week, year-round, will kick off in May. The others, daily year-round services, take off in September.

Willie Walsh, chief executive of Aer Lingus’s parent, International Consolidated Airlines’ Group (IAG), said that it would back the Irish carrier in flying to the Far East or South America if it emerges that there is demand for such services.

It is a considerable expansion. By next September, the airline’s services to North America will have increased to nine from six. It will fly to somewhere on the continent 28 times a day.
The number of Aer Lingus seats available on transatlantic routes will increase by 17 per cent next year to more than two million.

(Source: Irish Times)

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