Aer Lingus proclaims new Nashville-Dublin flights

The Music Metropolis and the Emerald Isle are all of a sudden so much nearer.

Aer Lingus will launch a brand new route from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Nashville Worldwide Airport (BNA), the airline and BNA introduced on Friday. Service begins April 12, 2025, with 4 weekly flights in every route.

Flight EI76 will depart from Nashville at 6:40 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, arriving in Dublin the following morning at 8:50 a.m. The westbound flight, EI77, will depart Dublin at 2:05 p.m. and arrive in Nashville at 5:10, additionally on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. All instances for the routes are native.

The Irish flag provider plans to fly its latest plane, the Airbus A321XLR, on the route. The A321XLR is the longest-range model of the A320neo household and was solely simply licensed by the European aviation regulator this summer time. Airbus is aiming to make the primary buyer deliveries of the brand new jet within the second half of October.

Though Aer Lingus was initially meant to be the launch buyer for the jet, the primary deliveries have been shifted to sister airline Iberia by the Worldwide Airways Group, the airways’ dad or mum group. Iberia plans to debut the jet between Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD) and Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS) as quickly as Nov. 14, though, on the time of that announcement, the plane’s supply had been scheduled a number of weeks earlier earlier than being delayed to mid- or late October.

Aer Lingus has not revealed its seat map for the A321XLR but, though it’ll probably be much like the marginally shorter-range A321LR that the airline presently flies. These jets characteristic 16 lie-flat business-class seats in a staggered 2-2 and 1-1 configuration, together with 168 seats in economic system specified by the usual 3-3 configuration. The brand new flights are on sale on Aer Lingus’ web site, although they’re proven as being operated by the generic A321neo that has an similar seat map because the A321LR.

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The flight — which is pegged at 3,905 miles, in keeping with Nice Circle Mapper — will clock in at about eight hours and 10 minutes en path to Dublin and 9 hours and 5 minutes on the westbound to Nashville.

Introductory fares for journey anytime between April 12 and Might 31, 2025, can be found on the brand new route for as little as $499 round-trip. You must ebook your flight earlier than 7 p.m. EDT on Oct. 31, 2024, as a way to get the promotional fares, so act quick should you’re concerned about taking a visit from the nation music capital to Dublin or past.

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