{"id":214949,"date":"2025-05-11T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/10-milestones-shaped-aer-lingus\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:00:15","slug":"10-milestones-that-shaped-aer-lingus-into-what-it-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=214949","title":{"rendered":"10 Milestones That Shaped Aer Lingus Into What It Is Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aer Lingus is the national airline of the Republic of        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"22929\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ireland\/\"  >Ireland<\/a><\/span> and has been operating since 1936, placing it among the world&#8217;s older carriers. Today, the airline operates over 100 routes to Europe and North America, primarily from its main hub at Dublin Airport (DUB). The airline is part of the larger International Airlines Group (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255424\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iag\/\"  >IAG<\/a><\/span>) , which also includes the British and Spanish flag carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier traces its history back to 1936 and has had plenty of important milestones along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,396,476,408,1869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aer-lingus","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-history","category-ireland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214950,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214949\/revisions\/214950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}