Ireland’s Aer Lingus continues to beef up its trans-Atlantic services to the U.S., this time with service to two second-tier U.S. destinations, Cleveland, Ohio and Hartford, Connecticut. Both will be served with Aer Lingus’s long-range single-aisle A321LRs.
Although the airline had some service to Hartford Bradley in the past, its main focus has been on the big-name destinations, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orlando and especially New York and Boston. The two new routes, it hopes, will help it scoop up passengers in those areas either to visit Ireland or to use Dublin as their transfer point to Europe.
Both Hartford and Cleveland have had trans-Atlantic service in the past, but neither has current service directly to Europe. The new flight to Cleveland comes with an incentive from local authorities, who approved $600,000 for their part in a $2.4 million package of incentives put together by local business groups.
