Aer Arann

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Aer Arann is a regional airline based in Ireland.

Code Data

• IATA Code: RE
• ICAO Code: REA
• Callsign: Aer Arann

Fleet

The Aer Arann fleet now consists of 5 50-seater ATR42's and 5 66-seater ATR72's.

Aer Arann Islands continues to provide services between Galway and three of the Aran Islands using Islander aircraft.

Services

Aer Arann provides the following flight routes (As of January 2005):

• Belfast City to Cork
• Birmingham to Cork, Derry and Galway
• Bristol to Cork
• Cork to Belfast City, Birmingham, Dublin, Bristol, Edinburgh and Southampton
• Derry to Birmingham and Manchester
• Donegal to Glasgow Prestwick and Dublin
• Dublin to Cork, Galway, Kerry, Donegal, Knock, Sligo and Isle of Man
• Edinburgh to Cork and Galway
• Galway to Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Luton and Lorient
• Glasgow (Prestwick) to Donegal
• Isle of Man to Dublin
• Kerry to Dublin and Manchester
• Knock to Dublin and Liverpool
• Liverpool to Knock
• London (Luton) to Galway and Waterford
• Lorient to Galway and Waterford
• Manchester to Derry, Galway, Kerry and Waterford
• Sligo to Dublin
• Southampton to Cork
• Waterford to Luton, Manchester and Lorient

Aer Arann Islands provides the following services (at January 2005):

• Galway to Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Óirr

History

Aer Arann began providing flights between Galway and three of the Aran Islands in 1970.

In 1994 Padraig O'Ceidigh purchased the airline and began to expand its routes and fleet.

The airline has greatly expanded its route network since it was founded, especially since changing from an island-oriented service to a regional one in 1998, when a service between Donegal and Dublin was first established. Aer Arann also started freight service between Dublin and Coventry that same year, its first flights to Great Britain.

Passenger flights outside Ireland first started in 2000, when a daily service between Dublin and the Isle of Man was established.

Just over 625,000 passengers flew Aer Arann flights in 2003.

June 2004 saw the start of passenger flights to continental Europe with the opening of a Galway-Waterford-Lorient route.

In early December 2004 Aer Arann announced that it had carried 400,000 passengers through Cork Airport since the start of 2004, an increase of 57% on the previous year.

In October 2004 the European Regions Airline Association awarded a bronze medal for achievement to Aer Arann. The gold medal went to Aegean Airlines and the silver to Eastern Airways.

External links

• Aer Arann Islands
• Aer Arann Fleet and Orders
• Aer Arann Passenger Opinions
• European Regions Airline Association