• Aircraft:

  Boeing 757-2Q8

• Reg: EI-LBR full info | EI-LBR photos
• Serial #:

  28167

• Airline: Aer Lingus (ASL Airlines)
• Photo Date: Sep 05, 2019
• Uploaded: Jul 19, 2020
• Minneapolis/St. Paul Int'l - KMSP, USA - Minnesota

Aer Lingus began a DUB-MSP route in June, 2019 using Boeing 757-200s operated by ASL Airlines. The route was selected specifically for the new A321LRs that Aer Lingus expected to have in time for the first flight, but the 757s were used due to delivery delays. The route did well, and was upgauged to A330-200s for a few weeks and was due to again be upgauged in the summer of 2020. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions combined with the end of the ASL Airlines 757 contract, MSP was first suspended along with most other US destinations in April 2020, then the airline announced that flights would not resume. Very sad that this route only lasted a few months, and I hope to see Aer Lingus return in a few years when they have the proper equipment and demand. Here is an ASL 757 arriving from DUB in the golden summer evening light. The flight was pre-cleared by customs in DUB and parked on the C Concourse.

Photographer

Aircraft

BEE EI-LBR

1,256 2 0 Boeing 757-2Q8

Galen Burrows EI-LBR

1,867 4 0 Boeing 757-2Q8

Andriy Yegorov EI-LBR

960 1 0 Boeing 757-2Q8

Photo location

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81 0 0 Embraer 170-200LR

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111 0 0 Bombardier CRJ-900LR

Photographer

On short-final for runway 12R over Taft Lake after a short flight from MSP

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Turning onto taxiway Uniform headed to runway 30 for departure to Kona in the early morning sunshine against the hills of the San Francisco Peninsula not long after Hawaiian resumed the KOA-OAK route which was suspended during the pandemic

Chasen Richardson N202HA

974 1 0 Airbus A321-271N