As Ryanair get closer in price range to Aerlingus people vote with there pockets .who needs the hassle of been treated like a piece of cargo to save 20 euro or so . Mr O’ Leary needs to understand that a bit of civility and courtesy actually costs very little to provide but can provide huge rewards
Will done to Mr Mueller and especially all the staff at EI who have had to make huge changes to get to where they are now

Aer Lingus prices have become more competitive. I have often found Aer Lingus to be the cheaper option when compared with Ryanair on the same route.

The article is mostly about Aer Lingus and most of the comments are about Ryanair …… Go share price go

Good to hear Aer Lingus doing well – twould also be good if the article gave us some analysis as to why this might be instead of leaving it to guesswork through comments.

Finally ryan air getting a wake up call after consistently changing the goalposts. I’m still fuming after the prepaid credit card scam they pulled I bought an O2 prepay to avoid booking charges so what do Ryanair do? They bring out their own and stop accepting all others ?????????

Aer Lingus has actually moved away from the Ryanair model in recent years, joining the race to the bottom and chasing the cheapest passenger wasn’t making money for them and resulted in massive losses. The past two years have been profitable for Aer Lingus because they found a middle ground and have positioned themselves as a “value carrier” rather than a dirt cheap “no frills” airline like Ryanair.

Aer Lingus are currently the largest airline at Dublin and Cork, they expanded at Cork long before Ryanair were interested. You should always be careful what you wish for with Ryanair, if they got the old terminal at Cork they would have rapid expansion targeting Aer Lingus, passengers numbers would soar but soon they’s push out the competition and would have Cork management in a corner allowing them to demand lower and lower landing fees, they would threaten to drop everything as a negotiating tatic if they didn’t get the landing fees they wanted. It happened at Shannon and looks what’s happened there.

How about they lower the prices of transatlantic flights going home this summer. Can’t see it though with the price of oil. Close to $1000 round trip, will have to wait and see.

Ryanair customer service is so ignorant. They are cold generally Eastern European and Aer Lingus trolls dollies are a lot nicer . I hope it is never sold to Ryanair. I would like to see it’s government share sold but to more Irish investors or maybe Ethiad airlines.

Aer Lingus really need to a competitive frequent flyer programme and to join an alliance. Until then, I’ll be sticking with United/BMI/Lufthansa!

I think it’s more that Aerlingus has started following ryanairs model, and lowered their prices from the cost saving. I don’t see a whole pile of difference between the aerlingus and ryanair experience. Just the uniform colour!

Ryanair provide routes and services into and out of Ireland that no-one else does, and manages to make them profitable. Not every tourist comes from heathrow. They should get more credit in my opinion, and I’d love them to have gotten the old cork airport building to run a european hub. Maybe I’m biased, being from Cork, and having to fly through heathrow or schipol everytime I need to get to Hamburg.

Emigration might have played a part in this no?
It’s certainly not the New York shopping trip gobshites, that’s for damned sure!!!!!

I my opinion aerlingus are worse Ryanair. They are always trying to put my carry on bag in the hold and are constantly 15min late.