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Is anyone else finding that only four seats keep showing (even when you got on literally when the flights have been added to avios.com) this is very annoying as a family of five! Aer Lingus flights from Dublin, shows as four seats on BA booking system also – can they possibly be only releasing four reward seats for these flights?
As far as I’m aware Aer Lingus don’t make a guaranteed number of seats available on their flights. They sometimes release extra chunks on certain routes at random times but it’s a lottery.
I’ve seen as many as 5 economy to/from MAN/JFK, but never any business class.
Resurrecting this, as I’ve now seen some business class MAN-JFK!
The price is showing 50k avios plus £345 pp in J. I know Rob has written about it being cheaper to book via Aer Club, however I can only see references to DUB departures. Does the cheaper cash element also apply for UK departures, or is it not significantly different, due to UK APD? (Before I go to the bother of reactivating my Aer Clun account and trying to transfer avios!)
TIA
Just checked for you, 50k Avios + £332.03 for MAN-JFK via Aerclub. Cancellation charge is 42.50 euro or local equivalent.
Man-Mco is 62.5k Avios + £363.03
Both off peak, and looks like there’s loads of availablity but the search engine is awful and you can only check one day at a time.
Peak/Offpeak calendar for 2025 is here https://www.aerlingus.com/media/pdfs/AC_calendar_2025.pdf
Not sure if this helps, but I’ve just booked a one-way business class SNN-JFK flight at a peak July date for 60k avios and £135 via AerClub. BA wanted double in terms of taxes, jumping to £450 if you added a UK connection.
During my research, I did notice BA and EI websites showing different availability at times. Not always, but I did have the odd case where EI was showing ‘Sold out’ for a specific transatlantic flight, whereas BA.com showed 2 award seats remaining.
I wouldn’t have minded booking via BA, but the saving was considerable via EI. Transfers to the AerClub from BA are instantaneous.
Good luck
Thanks both – so it looks like it’s the U.K. departure which is driving up the taxes, not who you book with.
The convenience of a direct flight from MAN would trump saving £200 in this instance – less the cost of getting to Ireland of course.
Evening All
In the Aer Lingus Articale dated 1st Feb talking about Aer Lingus reward flights, it mentions
Flying long haul?
There is no value in booking on the Aer Lingus website. You have the same flight availability, for the same number of Avios and the same taxes, at ba.com.When I look at aerlingus.com Vs BA.com I see loads of availbility for Sept 2024 DUB-JFK but when I try to find the same availabilty of BA.com, nothing shows for direst Aer lingus flight.
Example
Wednesday Sept 18th – 3 seats in Business Class on aerlingus.com
Nothing showing on BA.comI am planning to use aerlingus for companion vouchers in the future so I was just looking at how the availibilty compares. Am I doing anything wrong?
@Walty I recall the same thing when a friend was searching for reward seats around Easter. I said same availability on both sites; his experience said otherwise. The Aer Lingus website update that happened around Easter has had some odd effects generally.
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