![]() Saint Ronan of Locronan, the namesake of the aircraft the Huskers are flying east on tonight, is an Irish saint who founded the village of Locronan in northwestern France. ![]() Ronan (Aer Lingus names its aircraft after Irish saints). This particular Aer Lingus A330 holds the name St. It would be interesting to know who in the Husker traveling party is given seats 3K and 5K as these are what are called “throne” seats in that the cabin configuration gives them the footprint of two seats for just the one in order to most efficiently stagger the seat layouts in rows 2, 4, and 6 that are in a 1-2-2 configuration. Traveling with the football team will also be 50 members of the band, two directors, and the cheerleading team, among others with the program. Up front are 30 business class seats that convert to lie flat seats and in back are 287 economy seats. The A330-300 fleet for Aer Lingus has a capacity of 317 passengers split into a two-cabin configuration. It is powered by two GE CF6-80E1 engines that produce up to 72,000 pounds of thrust per engine, powerful enough to drive the A330 at a cruising speed of mach 0.83 (almost 637 mph). The aircraft the team is traveling on was originally delivered to the airline in February 2009 from the Airbus factory in Toulouse, France, making the aircraft 13.7 years old. Update: In the end, the jet took off almost one hour and 45 minutes late, with the new arrival time estimated at 11:05 am local time. That’s fairly typical on the departure side of the trip to leave late and easily make up the time in the air. As of time of publishing, the plane was hitting 20 minutes late leaving the gate and counting, however. local time and an arrival to Dublin at 10:16 a.m. The scheduled flight time is 8 hours and 16 minutes, with a departure set from Omaha of 8:00 p.m. Its three transatlantic services complement the carrier’s daily services from Manchester to Dublin (up to six a day), with seamless onward connections to 13 transatlantic routes, via quick and easy pre-clearance facilities at their Dublin Hub.BIG shamrock coming in HOT! ☘️ /OLkp6xxkX3- Eppley Airfield August 23, 2022 ![]() This summer, Aer Lingus will fly daily and direct from Manchester to New York JFK and to Orlando in North America, with seasonal winter services to Barbados due to restart in November. The success of Aer Lingus’ Manchester based operations has contributed towards its ambitious network expansion, offering yet more choice of routes and destinations from the north of the UK. Previously, the A321LR offered 184 daily departing seats from Manchester to JFK, but from today, that number will rise to 317 – 71% more seats available in Economy, (up by 119 to 287) – and an 88% increase in fully lie-flat Business Class seats (up by 14 to 30).Ĭustomers can choose from 270,000 seats on sale from Manchester to the US, with Aer Lingus’īiggest summer schedule yet, thanks to bigger aircraft and the extra capacity on its transatlantic routes Replacing the A321LR with a larger twin-aisled Airbus A330s enables them to redeploy their A321LR aircraft onto its transatlantic routes from Dublin, including to Hartford, which launched last month, as well as Dublin to Cleveland, which takes off in May. The move comes just over a year after the airline began its very first direct transatlantic flights to New York from its then new North of England hub, which initially operated on a single-aisle Airbus A321LR. Aer Lingus has increased capacity on its daily Manchester to New York services, which now operate on an Airbus A330 for the first time, increasing available seats on each flight by 72% over the summer.
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