About Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus

By way of making you more familiar with Aer Lingus, I would like to fly you through a potted history of the airline, which from a humble take-off in 1936, today flies one of the most modern fleets in the world.

Like all proper introductions we'll start with the name. Aer Lingus is an anglicization of the Irish "Aer Loingeas" which means Air Fleet. Founded in April 1936, Aer Lingus operated its first flight when our then hi-tech de Havilland Dragon, took off from Dublin for Bristol with a full load of five passengers. The date was May 27.

From day one Aer Lingus developed a reputation for friendliness and service - qualities with which we have become synonymous and which have won us countless accolades over the years.

Following the War, Aer Lingus set about rapidly expanding its British and European networks. By the early '50s we had spread our wings into Europe with Paris, Amsterdam and Lourdes. The late 1950's saw Aer Lingus turn its attention to the West and in 1958 we inaugerated our first transatlantic service to New York and Boston with Constellation aircraft. Over the next two and a half decades, Aer Lingus continued to develop its routes and schedules in Britain, the United States and Continental Europe.

Today Aer Lingus, with one of the youngest fleets of any European airline, flies 15,000 passengers on 180 flights a day to and from more than 30 destinations across Ireland, Britain, Continental Europe and the USA. With a dedicated staff, committed to the highest standards of customer service and a range of destinations and fares, Aer Lingus is excellently positioned to develop and grow well into the next century.

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