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A lot of the route expansion that we have been writing about in the past few weeks seems to have mostly centered outside of the United States (although we did write about British Airways adding more flight to the US in 2025), so it’s good to be able to report that two US cities will be seeing more service from Aer Lingus in summer 2025.
More US flights for Aer Lingus
Dublin – Denver
During summer 2024, Aer Lingus has been operating four weekly flights between Dublin and Denver (on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) and the route is set to be suspended for winter from 28 October.
As things stand, Aer Lingus is set to bring this route back next summer, and when it does (on 30 March 2025), it will once again operate it 4 x/week.
On 1 May 2025, however, Aer Lingus will add two further weekly flights to this route and these flights look like they’re going to stick around for the rest of the season.
This is what the Dublin – Denver schedule will look like from 1 May 2025:
EI59 DUB 15:30 – 18:15 DEN (Mon & Wed – Sun)
EI58 DEN 20:00 – 11:45+1 day DUB (Mon & Wed – Sun)
This route is operated by an Aer Lingus A330-200 aircraft which we’ll discuss a little later in this article.
Dublin – Minneapolis/St. Paul
Another Aer Lingus summer transatlantic route is the route between Dublin and Minneapolis/St. Paul which, like the airline’s Denver route, has been operating 4x/week in summer 2024 and which will be suspended for winter from 30 October 2024.
This route is also set to return next summer (from 5 April 2025) and when it does, it will return with 7 weekly flights (i.e. a daily service).
This is what the Dublin – MSP schedule will look like from 5 April 2025:
EI89 DUB 14:30 – 17:15 DEN (Daily)
EI88 DEN 18:45 – 08:35+1 day DUB (Daily)
Interestingly, while this route was operated by an A330-200 in 2024, the Aer Lingus booking engine now shows it being operated by an A321neo for summer 2025.
Aeroroutes, however, suggests that this will be a route that’s operated by the airline’s new A321XLR … presumably once Aer Lingus settles the ongoing dispute with its pilots.
The aircraft
The A330-200
Aer Lingus operates its Dublin – Denver route with its Airbus A330-300 aircraft which offer 23 Business Class seats and 248 Economy Class seats with the Business Class cabin looking something like this:
The Business Class cabin of this aircraft is fitted with a customised Thompson Aero Vantage seat that’s 22″ wide and which can turn into a 77″ long lie-flat bed.
The cabin has a slightly odd seating layout that varies from row to row, but broadly speaking, the best solo seats are the “throne seats” in 3K and 5K while couples may prefer to give up a window seat in favor of giving both passengers direct access to an aisle by selecting the center pair of seats in any row.
In Economy Class, the seats are from Recaro, are a little under 18″ wide and are arranged in a 2-4-2 layout. Seat pitch (leg room) is a tight 31″ (but that’s to be expected in a transatlantic Economy Class cabin) and all passengers in this cabin have access to universal power outlets and a 9″ HD display.
The A321neo
Right now, we know very little about what the inside of the Aer Lingus A321XLR will look like as the first aircraft hasn’t yet been delivered.
We can speculate, however, that Aer Lingus will probably have chosen to fit the XLR with pretty much the same cabins that it has in its long haul A321neo LR aircraft, and that means that we’re likely to see a Business Class cabin with the same seats as the A330 …
… and an Economy Class cabin set out with six Collins Aerospace Meridian seats in every row arranged in a 3-3 layout and offering a little under 18″ of width, 31″ of pitch, and just 3″ of recline.
Related: A look inside the Aer Lingus A321neo (used on select US routes)
Bottom line
In a recent update to its summer 2025 schedules, Aer Lingus has added two more weekly flights to its Dublin – Denver route (6 weekly flights in total) and three more weekly flights to its Dublin – Minneapolis St. Paul route (7 weekly flights in total).
The Minneapolis route will also go from being operated by a wide-body A330 aircraft to being operated by a narrow-body A321LR (possibly A321XLR) meaning that while the route is getting more flights, the number of passengers per aircraft will be fewer than in summer 2024.
[HT: Aeroroutes for the schedules]
