North American destinationsThis year, Aer Lingus will receive the first of nine A321LR (long range) aircraft that it has ordered from Airbus. Just too high“The risk for Aer Lingus trying to do it on their own was just too high, and there was nobody else that would invest or buy into Aer Lingus and support what it was they wanted to do. Because everybody else’s interest would not have been in expanding Aer Lingus the way we have done and in maintaining the Heathrow connectivity. He became chief executive of Aer Lingus following the September 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre, that left aviation reeling. He says the move was meant to get privatisation on the agenda as they believed Aer Lingus otherwise risked regressing.

Source: The Irish Times February 08, 2019 09:10 UTC