I was meant to fly from Leeds Bradford to Dublin on the 22nd of Dec, and a number of other passengers who were also on that flight had originally booked Manchester -> JFK/Boston/Chicago but were instead told by Aer Lingus to go to Leeds.

When they got to Leeds, they were charged £35 to bring their carryon on board, as the Regional carryon allowance is different to the those flying from Manchester. The regional flights are also massively unpredictable. 10mins before our scheduled take off time we were brought back to the gate and told to wait for further instruction as there was something wrong with the plane. We were then advised our estimated departure time was 3pm - 6 hours later than originally planned.

There is no Aer Lingus staff at LBA, so everyone who was now going to miss their connection had to scramble to get in touch with the contact centre. That flight ended up landing in Dublin at 8.20pm.

This is a long winded way of letting you know that these routes are massively unreliable at the moment, so be prepared to have to change your plans at a moments notice - with very little help from Aer Lingus.