Travel Tales

Go reader CARMEL O'MALLEYgot in touch about our report on Aer Lingus's flight schedule for the summer

Go is always interesting - even if locations are out of bounds. In her article "Flights back in full swing as summer gets closer", on April 3rd, Joan Scales wrote that "flights to the Canary Islands will be substantially increased . . . Both Aer Lingus and Ryanair have increased services there." In fact Aer Lingus has decreased its services, in particular from Cork to Lanzarote. In 2009 it flew at least four or five times a week, and this year it flies only twice in each direction each week. I used Aer Lingus from Cork to Lanzarote three times in 2009, and with the prices it is quoting for this year, package holidays would be the cheaper option. I am always happy to fly Aer Lingus, but it is pricing itself in line with, if not higher than, what a package holiday would cost. If this is its policy, then it can't wonder at its financial losses.

Fellow reader MICHAEL FEHILY, from Churchtown in Dublin, contacted us about how to get to some of Go's destinations

You appear to think that the only way travellers can go to Cancún, in Mexico ("Cultures collide in Cancún", last week), is by flying 12 hours from London and then through Mexico City. As I have pointed out to you numerous times previously, this is inaccurate information. Travellers can fly nine hours to Atlanta from Dublin with Delta Airlines, change, then fly directly to Cancún. The fact that there is a quicker and more direct flight from Dublin (which isn't Shannon or Belfast but is still an Irish airport) seems to be a problem for your supplement. Your constant fixation on advising readers to go through London when either direct or quicker routes are available from Dublin is shocking. May I request, having written to your supplement many times, that you get over your anti-Dublin problem and start reporting properly, and accurately, on flight availability to various destinations?