Unless you’ve been living on another planet for the last 24 hours you’ll know that last night Ireland beat Italy 1-0. During the match there was, as usual, a lot of activity on social media. One of the more amusing Twitter exchanges was between Ireland’s Aer Lingus and Italy’s Alitalia. Hi @AerLingus this is not […]
Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG) has announced the full agenda for the second annual OMiG Digital Summit, on January 21 in the Radisson Blu in Galway. Tickets are available for a few more hours at the Early Bird rate of €45. The price goes up to €55 tomorrow, though there is a 3 for 2 rate […]
Movember fund raising initiatives at Aer Lingus have raised over €35,000 for the Irish Cancer Society’s prostate cancer service and research fund. During November over 50 staff members grew moustaches and on board collections were organised on all Aer Lingus European flights during the last week of the month. In a quirky initiative to raise […]
Paul Buckley, Head of Social Media at Aer Lingus was at the Disruptors conference recently in Dublin. Like all brands, Paul says, they’ve found it can be a challenge to reach their audience through Facebook’s Edgerank filtering. “What we’ve been finding is that it’s the authentic content that is making a difference for us” That authenticity has to permeate […]
Ryanair announced a couple of days ago that they had been granted permission by the Irish Aviation Authority to let passengers leave their “personal electronic devices” or PEDs on throughout their flights: Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (6 Feb) confirmed that all Ryanair customers may – with immediate effect – use their PEDs (including tablets, […]
The last few months has seen European and US airlines and aviation authorities change their tune on the use of electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Writing in the Irish Independent this week, Adrian Weckler reports that neither Ryanair nor Aer Lingus say they have any plans to submit updated procedures to the Irish Aviation […]
Irish online payment provider, Realex Payments, has announced significant growth. In a release earlier this afternoon the Dublin based company announced revenues up by 28%, transaction volumes up 44%, client base increase by 74% (!!!) They’re now processing 1.5 billion euro a month on average! During the year Realex Payments signed up an additional 3,550 […]
Aer Lingus is exploring offering wifi on both European and Transatlantic flights reports Damien Mulley. According to Damien’s article the airline would charge €10 for a UK or European flight, while they’d charge €20 for a flight to the US. Other airlines, such as Delta, base their pricing on the more traditional time periods eg. […]
