Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus is the national airline of Ireland which is based in Dublin. It consists of 30 aircrafts which will be serving Europe, United States which will be including Arab Emirates. The 28% of Airline will be owned by the Irish government. Air Lingus is one of the members of world airline alliance, but it has an idea of coming out of the alliance on 1st April 2007. It was put under the Dublin and London stock Exchanges on 2 October 2006. The government owned 85% of the airline previously.

The slogan of the Airline is Low Fares, Way Better. About 4,000 people are employed in this Airline. It earns revenue of €906.8 million for the year 2004.

By using the Airbus A330, it started its services between Dublin and the United States in the year 1994. In the same year Aer Lingus operated A330 ETOPS for the first time between North Atlantic routes. After this the fleets Boeing 747 and Boeing 767-300ER were operated. After the twenty five years of service it operated jumbo-jet service.

In the year 2005, October 29, Aer Lingus withdrew its last two Boeing 737 aircraft from its service. As per the agreement for a flotation of Aer Lingus on the Dublin stock market, Irish Government decided to stop Shannon stopover by the end of 2006 in stages. In the year 2006, September 27, the company came into conditional share dealings and officially admitted to the list of London and Irish stock exchange. During this time of the agreement the Irish government controlled 28% shareholding and employees were having 15%.