guys i'm at george best belfast city airport now i should have explained to my getaway driver that
i was in no real rush to get here this morning but i will eventually be taking a flight
with aer lingus on one of their a320s over to birmingham nice quick flight this but i haven't
flown with aer lingus for a while now so i'll be interested to see what it's like i'm gonna
go inside and get some breakfast anyway so i'll catch you a little bit later on cheers for now
another morning another quiet airport quite a smart frontage though i thought
as i made my way to the entrance it was about 9 a.m when i got here and
i did wonder if anything would be open either before security or indeed airside
formerly known as just belfast city airport it was later named
george best belfast city airport in 2006
and that was in memory of probably the most famous footballer ever to come out of northern ireland
well there were a few people inside the terminal w.h smiths closed here was an ominous sign i must
admit check-in desks are located to the left of the entrance whilst departures is pretty
much straight on as you enter it's a single runway airport located almost opposite the ferry terminal
on the other side of the lock historically regional airlines and flights have made up
the majority of operations at the airport but with the recent demise of both flybe and stobart
air the airport is currently used mainly by aer lingus regional loganair and british airways
whilst there were some holiday flights going out at the time of my visit the likes of easyjet and
jet2 tend to use belfast international which is the airport located to the northwest of the city
anyway seeing as there wasn't really much going on in this part of the terminal
i decided to head through security and do a bit of aircraft watching and
see what facilities were in store for me airside
okay guys i am airside at george best belfast city airport really quiet here kind of as you'd
expect but i wonder if things will pick up um as the flights to belfast are increasing
who knows anyway i'm going to have some breakfast and then i'm going to have a little look around
and i've been called for my breakfast and i'll see you in a bit cheers
okay so after reaching our cruising altitude today which was only 25 000 feet for this short 40-minute
flight it was time to have a quick look at the seat area very standard really for this type of
aircraft coat hook in the head rest uh which was in the dark vinyl colour of the aer lingus livery
the seat was clean enough with the usual seat back table that slid forward and back
and overall it was clean which was the main thing really wasn't it
leg room was sufficient and again the foot space was clean and tidy
overhead we have individual air vents and reading lights again
very standard fittings for these kind of aircraft
now a couple of things i noted about aer lingus on this trip there were no personal sanitizing wipes
or anything handed out on boarding the aircraft and there was no service at all not even a bottle of
water now i compare this to british airways who would provide it on an equally short flight in
my experience also the staff were okay but they didn't make me feel particularly welcome or happy
to be flying aer lingus for example i had my camera set up to film the take off as you've already
seen and one of the cabin crew questioned me to make sure it was pointing outside the window and
not inside which i thought was a bit odd um anyway let me know your experience of flying aer lingus
i'd be interested to know if this was just a one-off or whether it's a usual kind of thing
okay guys well that was my final leg of the three-day adventure with aer lingus from belfast
city airport back to birmingham um what did i think about aer lingus mixed feelings really in
terms of their domestic short haul product um there was no kind of catering on board ba for
example would have given you a bottle of water and a packet of crisps for a similar distance flight
um staff were not particularly friendly the price point though £30 yeah to birmingham not too bad
and the connectivity is quite good obviously they've taken over a lot of the old stobart air
routes um will i fly them again i'll probably choose easyjet to be honest i think they're
a little bit better anyway i'm going home now uh tired um been a lot of travelling over the last
three days thanks for watching anyway and we'll catch you on another trip soon cheers for now