Why do Aer Lingus have such an awful reputation

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:40:02 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

Féachadóir Féach@d.óir wrote:

Scríobh Padraig Breathnach :
Féachadóir Féach@d.óir wrote:

Scríobh "wundrun" :

Is Aer Lingus that bad? I'd
be interested to hear people's opinions here. Oh, and what does "Lingus"
mean?

Fleet.

More like "Flete" -- we have a national airline with a Gaelic name
which is misspelled. It should be Aer Loingeas.

It's not misspelled, its anglicised, just as words like Dublin, Cork,
Limerick and Galway are...

Not so. To be anglicised, an expression needs first to exist in
another language. From its inception, the airline was given the name
"Air Lingus" in both Gaelic and English.
When I issued tickets at check in for Aer Lingus, the name on the
ticket was Aer Lingus Teoranta, the three letter airline code being
ALT, flight code EI.
There was in those days a sister company too, operating
Dublin-Shannon-New York, which was Aer Linte Eireann or
AET flight code IN. All domestic passengers were EI for Dublin to
Shannon and then IN from Shannon to New York Idlewild.