Aer Lingus
 

New user here, so I'm jumping in. I've got 200,000+ AX points and 150,000 Diners points, 50,000 AAdvantage miles and need 4 tickets on Aer Lingus (AAdvantage partner) this summer. I know I can transfer my Diners miles into AA, does anyone have ideas on how I can get AX points into my AA account? Thanks for help.

You may wish to keep the AMEX points where they are - don't forget that you can get EI awards directly from AMEX. Last time I looked (a few weeks ago) some of the AMEX business class awards on EI were cheaper (i.e. fewer points/miles) than the equivalent AAdvantage awards.


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thanks alot - I had only looked as far as Air Rewards on the AX site so now I've got my answer, unless someone else has a better one. Thanks for the reply

Watch out with aer lingus, it could be out of business

see also : http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/004280.html

a Pilot's Strike and going out of business are two very different things! :P You had me worried for a second.

The Aer Lingus rewards for MR breakdown like this:

$149 Economy Class Companion Ticket to Ireland
9,000 points

Free Economy Class Companion Ticket to Ireland
30,000 Points

Free Economy Class Ticket to Ireland 50,000 Points

$399 Premier Ticket to Ireland
60,000 Points

Free Premier class Ticket to Ireland 100,000 Points

Ireland Vacation Package for two
150,000 Points

4 Free Economy tickets to Ireland
160,000 Points

You should be worried, this has been going on for over 2 years now and the end of EI could be any day away. EI tried to find a buyer a few months ago but all parties, including BA, walked away. Look in, News, & EI Forum (EU collective group) for more details.

I'll worry as much as I'm worried that US Airways is going to go out of business.

Which means, not very much. Somethings are just beyond our control. But there is still a major difference between a Pilot's Strike and a complete dissolution of an airline.

you maybe would want to hold off on that booking. Reports say that EI could halt operations as soon as this friday!!

Hey Nicky D -

You might turn off the smugness - I just read recently, as well, that Aer Lingus might well be closing doors eff. Fri. It seems that the end is very near - more so than it is at US Airways.

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Aer Lingus has halted operations due to the strike.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020530/200...2000146_1.html

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I'm not trying to be smug. Optimistic perhaps, but not smug.

Doom-saying is not one of my favorite pre-occupations. Hopefully, they'll resolve this strike fairly soon, and will resume operations sometime in the near future... Hopefully before my reservations in September. :P

So long as you make your ticket payment with a credit card, you will not be out the money should EI fail. However, you may loose the reservation.

Remember, Sabena and Swissair? Guess they would never go broke either? They both had strikes recently......

Good luck!

an
Those two shutdowns had NOTHING to do with strikes. Swissair had no labor problems to speak of, and SABENA employees only protested AFTER the carrier was grounded. Both were grounded due to finances, not labor. Aer Lingus employees don't like the results of the mediation they agreed to, so now they are striking. Good idea...

Aer Lingus has labor problems due to financial conditions. If the airlines is shut down, it will be due to financial failure. EI has been asking the gov for money for quite some time now, and the gov has been trying to privatise them.

Take a look at it from the other side. This is very similar to Swiss Air and Sabena. EI has been having financial problems for several years.

Gents,

Look in www.ireland.com - strike on the way to being resolved ....

John P.

Yes, it looks like things will be back to normal soon. NORMAL - FINANCIALLY TROUBLED. The strike is aobut the rescue plan! This sounds like a repeat of Swiss Air and Sabena. Rescue plans that failed. I would still be cauticious about booking on EI. My Irish T/A is not booking people on EI.

I was in the Aer Lingus lounge in Dublin this afternoon - operatins recommenced at 1:00pm.

All USA operations will operate on Wednesday except for the LAX flight. That will operate as normal on Thursday according to the EI website.

I did speak with my friend in Dublin, and it sounded the whole Aer Lingus strike was really a big thing. There were a bunch of unhappy customers and all the stuff. Hopefully it won't be another version shortly...

The strike maybe over, but the financial problems for EI remain...

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Amex offers use of Membership rewards points for a reduced fare tickets on Aer lingus.

Checkout the air partners info at the Amex website. I was thinking they were not too bad of a deal for travel to Ireland.

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Apparently, Father Malloy, President of my alma mata (Notre Dame)and his posse were stranded in Ireland after a fundraising junket due to the Aer Lingus strike. Even worse (and more interesting), the idiot Notre Dame travel agency (Anthony Travel) rebooked the group on Ryanair to Stanstead with a connection to LHR. I can just picture five priests and several wealthy benefactors traveling that route. Had I been in charge, the routing would have been much better.

I wonder whether they flew on the same day as two of my friends ? Tuesday Stanstead shut down due to weather, and flights were being diverted to brimingham. So you can add another two hour bus ride to that ...

Whilst talk of Aer Lingus demise is a little premature, it is in financial difficulties. According to the BBC they are losing GBP2 million a day.

I very much doubt that the Irish government would let them collapse - but we rather thought that about Swissair and Sabena. Ryanair has snapped Aer Lingus hard in many markets particularly between Ireland and the UK.

I strongly suspect that you will have little difficulty with Aer Lingus - strikes apart.

As for the re-routing via Ryaniar, I fear that the Notre Dame agency probably had little choice unless they routed them via another hub like Paris or Amsterdam. Most flights into the UK were absolutely solid months ago due to the extra long holiday which ended on Tuesday. BD were full before this happened and Ryanair ran 12 extra flights showing a flexibility that has provoked a good deal of comment here.

It is not about Ireland, it is about the EU. The EU wants airlines to merge, and is against gov support. While the Irish gov could figure out how to put some money into the airlines, the times have changed and EI may well not be the same airlines we know them as today. Just like the former Sabena (not sure what their name is now.)