That dedicated focus on Aer Lingus’ widebody aircraft, A330-220s, and A330-300s, has been over the concerns on long-haul operations. The report from ch-aviation says the airline company has 13 A330s out of a 59-strong fleet that’s excluded its ATR regional flights operated by Emerald.
Typically, Shamrock was used to serve over short haul widebody, especially to Faro and Malaga. Meanwhile, it was first noted by Aeroroutes—Aer Lingus confirmed for the newest start on the shortest scheduled airway linking Dublin to Madrid. Flightrader24 shows that EI-GEY—A330-200 was deployed on the route—started on April 4th, 2025. This is so far regular till winter coming.
Aer Lingus Adds Madrid to Its A330-300 Flight Network
The operations are based on the IATA slot seasons—Northen carriers such as Aer Lingus will switch to a winter schedule in the coming October month. However, it is scheduled to maintain it until March 2026. The coming October 26th, 2025 to 28th March 2025. The start of this Irish flag carrier regularly flies with 317 seats A330-300 to the Spanish capital for the first time. So far now, it’s the largest equipment in Aer Lingus airlines.
A330 by the carrier will be deployed on Fridays and Sundays-thus letting weekend in demand for both directions with a massive kick in the local aviation market. To date, the booking data came up as all airlines transported approximately 63,000 round-trip passengers in November and December 2024 alone, which is expected to increase in 2025 months. Data shared by Cirium Diio reports that Aer Lingus, Iberia, and Ryanair, on average, have five daily flights but often eight depending on passenger traffic.
Aer Lingus Reveals 5 Shortest Scheduled A330 Routes from June to December
Notable is that Aer Lingus occasionally uses its twin0aisle equipment on ad-hoc flights. Apart it ensures additional capacity to perennially over top peak destinations such as intra-European markets. It’s even no different from other short-haul widebody operators on Turkish Airlines and Finnair.
Aer Lingus Operates Its Longest Airbus A330 Route
Each from Dublin to Los Angeles is 4,505 miles—that’s around 8,338 kilometers. The airline company shares the longest route networkwide. The report came from the US Department of Transportation Data and shares that Aer Lingus served the market between 1999 and 2008 and then next from 2016 to 2020 because of a pandemic. Now, from 2022 onwards.
So far, the fares during the summer of 2025—Los Angeles is every day served by 313 seat A330-300s. Till early January of 2026, the airline flights will fall to six, mainly on 217-seat A330-3200-thus planning to reduce to four a week with A330-300s. This is an upcoming plan for slashing winter frequencies and seat offerings to better align capacity with the demand of passengers, increasing loads and yields in the aviation industry.
