Aer Lingus traffic to US reverting to pre-lockdown norm

The number of Aer Lingus flights to the US has bounced back to numbers last seen before the coronavirus pandemic, the Irish airline said this week. The International Airlines Group (IAG)-owned carrier’s 473 flights to the US this month topped the 470 it operated in November 2019 and amounted to a 236% increase on same month last year, when pandemic-related travel curbs limited the number of flights to 141. In November 2020 only 90 Aer Lingus flights landed in the US. This week’s Thanksgiving holiday in the US has been key to the revived traffic, the airline said, with nine