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MULTIPLE AER LINGUS flights out of Dublin Airport to European destinations have been cancelled today, as the airline cites illness and strike action for the disruption.
The cancellations are set to impact flights carrying passengers to France, Switzerland, Brussels, the Netherlands and the UK.
It comes as there was significant disruption yesterday, with multiple flights in and out of Dublin Airport being cancelled by the airline, including flights in and out of Heathrow, where 30 flights were cancelled by the airport operator.
In a statement, Aer Lingus said that nine return flights and one direct had been cancelled today due to the spread of Covid-19.
Three of the return flights which have been cancelled are to the UK, to London Gatwick and Birmingham, while the direct flight was from Heathrow to Dublin.
The cancelled flights are:
Aer Lingus have said that the return flight to Bordeaux was cancelled due to industrial action by ground handling staff in France.
Tomorrow, four return flights from Dublin Airport have been cancelled, including two to the French city of Lyon.
Tomorrow’s cancelled flights are:
In a statement, Aer Lingus apologised to passengers who have been impacted by the cancelled flights.
“Aer Lingus wishes to apologise to those impacted and teams at the airline are working to re-accommodate impacted passengers on the next available services as efficiently as possible,” said a spokesperson for Aer Lingus
“Aer Lingus anticipated the return of demand for travel once Covid restrictions were removed and built appropriate buffers into our plans in order to deal with a reasonable level of additional disruption.
“System pressures and ongoing issues at some airports and among third party suppliers have created considerable operational challenges which have been compounded by a significant spike in Covid cases in recent days.”
The airline has said that just over 1% of all Aer Lingus flights in June were impacted by cancellations.
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Ulster looked a lot better tonight. They’re obviously far from the finished product but it’s a positive sign that they can string together more than five consecutive phases in attack. That young academy scrum-half Conor McKee was very good and his kicking from the base of the ruck was very accurate all match. Stewart Moore was excellent at fullback again and set the platform the Ulster backs by winning the contest in the air from kicks excellently. I cannot be stated enough how much Ulster needed this win. After losing 8 out their last 10 matches, it was crucial that they got any sort of victory tonight to keep their chances of making the URC knockout stages alive and they managed to do that. Even though I’m a Leinster supporter, I’ll still cheer for Ulster whenever they play anyone else.
Ireland needs to step up and step up and invest all the apple money into the Ukraine war effort. Time to stop being such pansies and fight:
@Basildon Joe: for a moment I thought you were going to suggest invest in Ulster rugby
@You Cant Be Serious: is Joe really English ? They seemed to be a bit smarter than that when I lived there.
@Basildon Joe: Time to accept that supporting Ukraine properly will have a cost and the Apple money isn’t done sort of endless free well of money. I’m happy to pay it but are you?
@Basildon Joe: So keen to send Irish kids to Ukraine to die why not do us a favour and head there yourself? Hopefully the Russians do us a favour
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Yet again the uk leading the war effort, we always win!
@Basildon Joe: yawn
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