The amount of Avios you earn will differ between the two options. credit directly to a British Airways Executive Club account.credit to an Aer Lingus AerClub account and then move your Avios into British Airways Executive Club via ‘Combine My Avios’ or.You can earn status credits in Aer Lingus AerClub, but this is unlikely to be much use for a one off trip. Anti-trust approval has already been given. At some point Aer Lingus will join the oneworld transatlantic joint venture with American, Finnair, BA and Iberia, but so far the IT issues are proving hard to solve. You cannot (yet) earn British Airways Executive Club tier points with Aer Lingus. You wouldn’t struggle to find something to pass the short flying time to New York.Įarning Avios and tier points with Aer Lingus In general, they are a couple of months behind the curve but it certainly isn’t the worst selection out there. The Aer Lingus idea of ‘current’ movies included Death on the Nile, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Duke, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Godzilla vs Kong, House of Gucci, Last Night in Soho, Licorice Pizza, Sing 2, Space Jam: A New Legacy and The Phantom of the Open. You have the usual mix of TV, movies, audio options and video games, with a special kids section too.

I tend not to bother with IFE, using long haul flights to clear my backlog of unread magazines from the living room table, but the Aer Lingus selection looked decent. However, Aer Lingus performed a lot better than I expected – although admittedly I was still traumatised by what BA had served me on the way to Mauritius a couple of weeks earlier.įundamentally, whilst Aer Lingus is a little low on choice – although with only 16 seats there isn’t much alternative if it wants to avoid huge amounts of waste – the selection it does offer is of a high standard. Regular readers will know that I never pretend to be a food critic. The breakfast option on the return was just fruit and yogurt, but I don’t think any of the 16 passengers on the flight bothered (the flight landed at 4.30am in Dublin, a bit early for breakfast) – I didn’t see anyone eating when I got up. This was genuinely different and actually quite tasty, although whether onion jam is a good partner for champagne is another question.ĭessert was a ‘take it or leave it’ cheesecake, unless you wanted the cheese plate. Instead, Aer Lingus handed out ‘drinks biscuits’ (pecorino, rosemary and seaweed flavour!) and onion jam. I hate nuts and, with so many people allergic to them, I don’t understand why British Airways and other airlines insist on handing them out.

What wasn’t predictable was what came with it. Service kicked off with a drinks run, and predictably I went with champagne (Jean Pernet). The only downside of Aer Lingus catering on the A321LR is that, with only 16 seats in the cabin, it makes no sense to have a huge number of options for each course. What is worse for BA is that Aer Lingus, which is positioned as a low cost sister airline, is wiping the floor with it in terms of catering. For people who have paid £5,000+ for their seats it is embarrassing.

This situation is not due to change until the Winter timetable launches at the end of October.

You are basically getting a Club Europe ‘one tray’ meal, because BA has cut cabin crew numbers to the legal minimum and this does not allow it to offer a proper meal service. If you’ve flown British Airways in Club World recently, you will know that the catering is dire.

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