Originally Posted by
irishguy28
You're confusing Aer Lingus with Ryanair, who has,
Aer Lingus has, to my knowledge, never sold seats without taxes, fees and charges. So a £0/€0 fare would be impossible on Aer Lingus, even if the base fare was set at zero.
As I mentioned later, £0 fares were advertised heavily for a long period of time. It is not my problem why EI did not advertise fares with tax and fees in that time. But it did exist. Even now you can still book £0 return base fare from Gatwick, £0.99 one way base fare from Heathrow.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
You're confusing Aer Lingus with FlyBE. As stated upstream, they hired actors on a number of flights to meet the target they had agreed with Norwich Airport in order to receive a subsidy for opening the new route between Norwich and Dublin, and to avoid a penalty for failing to deliver as promised.
Yes I have mentioned I might be wrong, with a very small chance. But as I said I remembered the specific mentioning on Evening Standard commentary piece. That is why I have insists EI was the 'guy'. Again I admit that there is a 15% chance of my memory being bad. But the commentary piece was specific about
Heathrow expansion. So it can not be Flybe. The commentary piece was written after BMI but before Virgin Little Red, so the only possible candidate is EI unfortunately.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Aer Lingus has never, to my knowledge, operated "ghost flights" for slot-sitting purposes. They use all their allocated slots (they did transfer some to BA last year) and actually bid for the slots that eventually went to Virgin back in 2012.
Nowhere I have said 'Aer Lingus operated ghost flight'. What I have said was the tactics were used to 'avoid ghost flight situation'. But thank you for your information.