Aer Lingus in the network the desk measures
Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the EI code that yields 118 city pairs across 97 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.
97airports on this carrier
23countries and territories reached
118scheduled city pairs held
486average daily flights across them
The schedule the desk holds carries the EI code on 118 city pairs, reaching 97 airports in 23 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Aer Lingus and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 75.3 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on time zones in the Americas.
01The longest sector held for the carrier is Dublin (DUB) to Los Angeles (LAX) at about 8,318 km, and the shortest is Dublin (DUB) to Castletown (IOM) at about 131 km. 18 of the 118 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Dublin (DUB), on 90 of them, which is 76.3 per cent of everything held under this code.
02The thickest sector under the code is Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Chicago (ORD) at about 25.4 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.9 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Dublin (DUB), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 41 of the 118 pairs run four or more times a day and 24 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Dublin (DUB) the code leans on Cork (ORK) on 12, Belfast (BHD) on 6, Limerick city (SNN) on 4 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.
The sectors that carry the EI code most often
The 16 sectors the EI code appears on most often, out of 118. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.
How a courier reaches Dublin from the Gulf
The schedule the desk holds shows no EI service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Dublin (DUB), and Aer Lingus carries the second.
The first leg, measured. These are the 2 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Dublin (DUB), the airport this code is booked through most often.
Night restrictions on the airports the EI code uses
A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 13 of the 97 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.
- London (LHR), night restrictions. A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
- Hamburg (HAM), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
- Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
- Berlin (BER), night restrictions. Core quiet period from midnight to 05:00 local, with restricted movements from 22:00 and until 06:00.
- Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
- Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
Published lanes that carry the EI code
The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Aer Lingus appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Dublin to Boston at about 4.6 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.
- Dublin to Boston, about 4.6 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 4,803 km.
The countries the EI code opens
Of the 23 countries and territories reached, 12 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is the United States with 20 airports on this code. The country desk for Ireland sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.
United States (20 airports), United Kingdom (16 airports), Spain (11 airports), Italy (9 airports), France (9 airports), Germany (5 airports), Ireland (5 airports), Greece (4 airports), Croatia (2 airports), Switzerland (2 airports).
Where to go next on the EI network
Each of the 97 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 118 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Dublin (DUB), the route calculator with Dubai to DUB already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.
