The interior of the cabin was clean and tidy, not like Andrew and Michael’s Ryanair, “gettem on, gettem off” service (lol). The seats were finished in that attractive printed material with lines from famous Irish poets on them.

In the seat pocket there was a copy of the Aer Lingus magazine and shopping magazine, as well as the safety card and vomit recepticle. (No I didn’t nick the safety card). The window I had was a little scratched so didn’t offer a great opportunity for snapping, I did however shoot these two Loganair Twin Otters parked beside us..

The rear door and tail…

I sat around in the lounge with the papers, waiting to be called which was at around 0805. Boarding Aer Lingus flights at GLA has always been through the old international east pier, which mainly houses Easyjet and other loco’s these days. Aer Lingus uses the same stand and lounge as they have always done, mainly because there’s a police check area for arriving passengers from Ireland, a throughback to times when UK/Irish relations weren’t so pleasant.

On call, we presented our boarding cards and walked across the ramp to our waiting Boeing 737-400 in standard livery. The reg was EI-BXI. I was expecting a 735, the norm since they retired the BAe146’s so the sight of the larger 400 was welcome…

This stand will be the nearest to the new “T2” building, I wonder if this will mean a move elsewhere for Aer Lingus ?

I’d like to fly in one of these some day…

An odd looking aircraft by Beech, one of those “designed by committee” jobs…

Some other European operators where around including AIr Luxor, Alitalia and Lufthansa…

The cargo area was quite busy, with a number of A300’s for various operators including this TNT one…