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16/06/2009
Aer Lingus Targets US For €80
Airfares from as low as €80 will be offered to American holidaymakers to lure them to Ireland.
In conjunction with the part state-owned airline Aer Lingus, Tourism Ireland said the move was part of its biggest ever campaign in the US to encourage visitors to Ireland while hotels and airlines are "doing everything possible" to encourage American visitors.
The news comes only a week after the airline - which opened an operating 'hub' at Belfast International Airport last year - said it would be cutting US flights out of Shannon Airport to Chicago and from Dublin to Washington and San Francisco this winter.
That move has been vehemently opposed by workers union Siptu who say the move will have an impact on already hard-pressed staff and their families.
Siptu also said that moreover, the decision to pull flights from Shannon and Dublin, further underpinned the "madness" of the privatisation of Aer Lingus in the first place.
"They, the Government, were aided, abetted and goaded in this foolish endeavour by a cacophony of voices from the orthodox economic community and many commentators who claimed that the market would look after the future," a spokeman for Siptu said.
He added: "The same commentators and the same economic orthodoxy failed to envisage or even understand the consequences of the Ryanair takeover exercise and the effect that it would have on the company."
See: Aer Lingus' Belfast Move To Spark London Price War
See: Aer Lingus Flying High From Belfast: Eventually!
(DW/BMcc)
In conjunction with the part state-owned airline Aer Lingus, Tourism Ireland said the move was part of its biggest ever campaign in the US to encourage visitors to Ireland while hotels and airlines are "doing everything possible" to encourage American visitors.
The news comes only a week after the airline - which opened an operating 'hub' at Belfast International Airport last year - said it would be cutting US flights out of Shannon Airport to Chicago and from Dublin to Washington and San Francisco this winter.
That move has been vehemently opposed by workers union Siptu who say the move will have an impact on already hard-pressed staff and their families.
Siptu also said that moreover, the decision to pull flights from Shannon and Dublin, further underpinned the "madness" of the privatisation of Aer Lingus in the first place.
"They, the Government, were aided, abetted and goaded in this foolish endeavour by a cacophony of voices from the orthodox economic community and many commentators who claimed that the market would look after the future," a spokeman for Siptu said.
He added: "The same commentators and the same economic orthodoxy failed to envisage or even understand the consequences of the Ryanair takeover exercise and the effect that it would have on the company."
See: Aer Lingus' Belfast Move To Spark London Price War
See: Aer Lingus Flying High From Belfast: Eventually!
(DW/BMcc)
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