Friday, 18 April 2014

Virgin Atlantic Little Red (operated by Aer Lingus)








Virgin Atlantic Little Red is Virgin Atlantic's UK Domestic Airline. The airline was founded in 2013 and commenced operations on 31 March 2013. All flights are operated by Aer Lingus. There are Airbus A320 4 aircraft from the Aer Lingus fleet operating for this service. The airline have 4 bases at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London Heathrow, Manchester. The main reason for the setting up of this aircraft was due to the closure of BMI. BMI used to operate UK domestic services to Heathrow which were all codeshared with a VS (Virgin Atlantic) flight number. 


BASE                          AIRCRAFT BASED      OTHER INFO
Aberdeen                            1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to London Heathrow
Edinburgh                           1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to London Heathrow
London Heathrow               1 Airbus A320                  Operates 3 daily services to Edinburgh
Manchester                         1 Airbus A320                 Operates 4 daily services to London Heathrow



All flights operate to & from Terminal 1 at London Heathrow, Terminal 3 at Manchester and the main terminal building at Aberdeen and Edinburgh.




PICTURES OF LITTLE RED'S AIRCRAFT


                       AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI: Maggie May


                   AIRBUS A320: EI-DEO: Queen of the Cobbles


                    AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV: Tartan Lassie


                   AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW: Rosie Lee







FLEET LIST



AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI (OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-DEO 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW 
(OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)

TOTAL: 4 (ALL OPERATED & OWNED BY AER LINGUS)




Whether Little Red will expand its UK Domestic operations to other Cities on the Island is unknown. Possible cities include, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow, Newcaslte etc. This partership between Aer Lingus & Virgin Atlantic is contracted for 3 years. 









Thursday, 27 February 2014

IRISH AIRPORTS: their Airlines & Destinations, WATERFORD AIRPORT

Waterford Airport has only 2 scheduled services with Flybe.



AirlinesDestinations
FlybeBirminghamManchester




This week is the last week in the Irish Airports their Airlines & Destinations series. Next week Airlines of the UK.

Monday, 24 February 2014

Cork Airport on Google Maps Street View

Cork Airport becomes Ireland's first Airport to feature in Google Map's Street View. Below there is pictures from Google of the inside of Cork Airport. 



Outside of Cork Airport





Cork Airport's Terminal Building





Cork Airport





Inside the main door





Check-In Area





Check-In Area





Ticket Desks





Aer Lingus Check-In Area





Aer Lingus Check-In Area





Stairs to Departures





Check-In Area from the top of the stairs





This way for Departures





The Loop Duty Free Shop





The Loop Duty Free Shop





Departure Gates 1 & 2





Departure Gates 3 & 4





Departure Lounge





LIR Café Departure Lounge





Eason Departure Lounge





Departure Gate 5 & 6





Departure Gate 7 & 8





Jack Lynch Departure Lounge





Jack Lynch Departure Lounge





The Last Call, Pub





Baggage Hall





Baggage Hall





Baggage Hall





Heading Out





Exit





Arrivals Door






















Friday, 21 February 2014

Isles of Scilly Skybus

Isles of Scilly Skybus are an airline that run services from St. Mary's, on the Isles of Scilly off Lands End to South West England. The airline was founded in May 1984 and operates a fleet of 3 Britten-Norman Islander and 4 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, operating 7 aircraft in total.



                                 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter





                                                Britten-Norman Islander






Virgin Atlantic Little Red operated by Aer Lingus

Virgin Atlantic Little Red is Virgin Atlantic's Domestic UK Operations. All Little Red operations are operated by Aer Lingus, using 100% Aer Lingus owned Airbus A320's.







Little Red has a modern fleet of Airbus A320's.

FLEET 

AIRBUS A320: 4




Pictures of every Little Red aircraft.


                            AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI: MAGGIE MAY



                 AIRBUS A320: EI-DEP: QUEEN OF THE COBBLES



                       AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV: TARTAN LASSIE



                        AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW: MAGGIE MAY






FLEET LIST.


AIRBUS A320: EI-DEI
AIRBUS A320: EI-DEO
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZV
AIRBUS A320: EI-EZW





As of now, there are no orders for new aircraft.


Services operate to/from Aberdeen, Edinburgh & Manchester to/from London Heathrow.


The aircraft are based in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, & Manchester.


AIRPORT               NUMBER BASED HERE

ABERDEEN                    1 (EI-EZW)
EDINBURGH                  2 (EI-EZV & EI-DEO)
MANCHESTER               1 (EI-DEI)
LONDON HEATHROW     0 (services operate to/from here, and do not originate here)



From time to time, every 3-4 weeks, each aircraft is in Dublin for a week of maintenance. While, the aircraft is in Dublin, a green Aer Lingus aircraft positions to the airport where the aircraft is being worked on came from. 





Thursday, 20 February 2014

CityJet Fleet

CityJet has a middle aged fleet of Avro's and Fokkers.








AVRO RJ85: 20
FOKKER 50: 12

TOTAL:          32




Pictures of Every CityJet Aircraft.




                                 AVRO RJ85: EI-RJA: RATHLIN ISLAND



                                AVRO RJ85: EI-RJB: BERE ISLAND



                                  AVRO RJ85: EI-RJC: ACHILL ISLAND



                                AVRO RJ85: EI-RJD: VELENTIA ISLAND



                            AVRO RJ85: EI-RJE: ST. MACDARA'S ISLAND



                            AVRO RJ85: EI-RJF: GREAT BLASKET ISLAND



                           AVRO RJ85: EI-RJG: SHERKIN ISLAND



                            AVRO RJ85: EI-EJH: INISHTURK



                               AVRO RJ85: EI-RJI: SKELLIG MICHAEL



                                AVRO RJ85: EI-RJJ: HARE ISLAND



                          AVRO RJ85: EI-RJN: LAKE ISLE OF INISHFREE



                            AVRO RJ85: EI-RJO: INIS MÓR



                                 AVRO RJ85: EI-RJR: TORY ISLAND



                              AVRO RJ85: EI-RJS: DURSEY ISLAND



                        AVRO RJ85: EI-RJT: INISHBOFIN (STORED)



                                AVRO RJ85: EI-RJU: CAPE CLEAR



        AVRO RJ85: EI-RJX: SCATTERY ISLAND (LEINSTER RUGBY LIVERY)



                             AVRO RJ85: EI-RJY: INISHCEALTRA



                                AVRO RJ85: EI-RJZ: INIS MEÁIN



                               AVRO RJ85: EI-WXA: INIS OIRR



                           FOKKER 50: OO-VLF: VILLE DE NANTES



                           FOKKER 50: OO-VLI: CITY OF EINDHOVEN




                                             FOKKER 50: EI-VLJ



                        FOKKER 50: EI-VLL: CITY OF ROTTERDAM



                         FOKKER 50: OO-VLM: CITY OF ANTWERP



                      FOKKER 50: OO-VLN: SPIRIT OF REENSTAR



                         FOKKER 50: OO-VLO: CITY OF MANCHESTER



                          FOKKER 50: OO-VLP: SPIRIT OF VLM



                           FOKKER 50: OO-VLQ: CITY OF LONDON



                      FOKKER 50: OO-VLR: CITY OF LUXEMBOURG



                                           FOKKER 50: OO-VLS



                     FOKKER 50: OO-VLZ: DEAUVILLE NORMANDIE







FLEET LIST



AVRO RJ85: EI-RJA
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJB
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJC
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJD
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJE
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJF
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJG
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJH
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJI
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJJ
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJN
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJO
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJR
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJS
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJT (AIRCRAFT CURRENTLY STORED)
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJU
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJX
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJY
AVRO RJ85: EI-RJZ
AVRO RJ85: EI-WXA
FOKKER 50: OO-VLF
FOKKER 50: OO-VLI
FOKKER 50: OO-VLJ
FOKKER 50: OO-VLL
FOKKER 50: OO-VLM
FOKKER 50: OO-VLN
FOKKER 50: OO-VLO
FOKKER 50: OO-VLP
FOKKER 50: OO-VLQ
FOKKER 50: OO-VLR
FOKKER 50: OO-VLS
FOKKER 50: OO-VLZ

TOTAL: 32 (INCLUDING 1 STORED)      





CityJet currently has one Avro RJ85 aircraft EI-RJT stored until Further Notice.