Loo and galley noise is guaranteed in Row 3 but manageable. Note that there is no Row 1, so Business Class runs from Row 2 to Row 6. Instead it turned out to have quite a bit of baby noise, since the bassinet seats are in Row 7, the front row of Economy. I had taken Row 5 instead of Row 3 (the other row of ‘throne’ seats) because I thought it would have less loo and galley noise.
#AER LINGUS FLEET FULL#
Should the throne seats be held back for full fare ticket holders and/or elite flyers, or a Lufthansa-style additional fee be requested? The Aer Lingus A321LR business class seat Unfortunately, this meant that anyone who booked a last minute ticket for three times what I paid would have been stuck sharing a seat pair with a stranger.Ĭould / should Aer Lingus do something about this? Clearly I wasn’t complaining. We could have sat together, but why should we, when there were two far better seats available?
Because I booked three months in advance, I had my pick of the cabin so I gave my daughter and I a ‘throne’ seat each. I paid peanuts for my ticket (£650 each way). However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that seats are allocated ‘fairly’. It doesn’t charge for seat reservations in business class, which is great. There is a discussion to be had about seat pricing with Aer Lingus. Should Aer Lingus restrict access to ‘throne’ seats?
I wouldn’t be keen to sit with a stranger, especially on a night flight, in one of these seats.Įven with your partner, you may find that you are a bit too close for comfort. You are either climbing over someone to get out or, if you are on the aisle, you are being climbed over. You also don’t have direct aisle access if you are by the window. However, this picture is not from a real aircraft – the actual layout has another row of two seats at the back.īasically, it goes 2 / 1 / 2 / 1 / 2 down either side, for a total of 16 seats.Īs you can see above, there is little privacy between you and the person next to you. Here is a PR photograph showing the Business Class seating, without any annoying passengers getting in the way. There is no Premium Economy on the A321LR, or indeed any Aer Lingus long haul aircraft. You are not sat for seven hours without entertainment! Whilst the cabin looks like a standard short haul Economy class cabin in photographs (and indeed it is, to the extent that it has the usual 3×3 seating), you get the usual bells and whistles that you expect in long haul economy, including IFE. Whilst this review isn’t focused on Economy, it is worth clarifying one point. The Aer Lingus A321LRĪer Lingus has configured its A321LR fleet with 16 flat bed seats in Business Class and 168 seats in Economy. Whilst we have done ‘free’ review flights with Aer Lingus in the past, this was a paid trip and the airline was not involved in any way. My connection from Heathrow to Dublin was on Avios. I paid £1,300 return for a business class ticket between Dublin and New York Newark.
My review of the ’51st & Green’ preclearance lounge at Dublin, and an overview of how US Customs & Immigration works at Dublin, is here.
My review of the Aer Lingus lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 2 is here. This is the third article in this series. We are hoping to take a look at what JetBlue and TAP offer in the near future. Three airlines have taken the lead in using the A321LR for transatlantic services – JetBlue, TAP Air Portugal and Aer Lingus.
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