{"id":139827,"date":"2026-03-16T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:11:08","slug":"aer-lingus-bookings-outpace-projections-as-airline-targets-specific-pittsburgh-industries-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139827\/","title":{"rendered":"Aer Lingus bookings outpace projections as airline targets specific Pittsburgh industries \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bookings are on track and slightly ahead of plan for the Aer Lingus nonstop service between Pittsburgh and Dublin that will begin May 25, according to the airline\u2019s senior vice president of global sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Aer Lingus\u2019 announcement in December is a big coup for the Allegheny County Airport Authority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/25\/top-stories-2025-3-pit-terminal-opens.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which only weeks earlier had opened its new $1.7 billion landside terminal<\/a>. Aer Lingus and the authority since then have ramped up Aer Lingus\u2019 meetings with the business community, travel professionals and on Saturday with the Pittsburgh St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased, and we\u2019re very optimistic\u201d about the long-term success of the flights, said Bill Byrne, who spoke during a visit to the Pittsburgh Business Times offices on Thursday. It\u2019s a pretty busy schedule for Aer Lingus executives this week, with the parade plus the Ireland Funds Gala on Thursday night and the Miss Smiling Irish Eyes luncheon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/aer-lingus-nonstop-dublin-service.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/aer-lingus-nonstop-dublin-service.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bookings are on track and slightly ahead of plan for the Aer Lingus nonstop service between Pittsburgh and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32611,64155,64150,64159,64158,19308,64154,64153,17913,64156,73,64151,6845,75,6846,64152,74,64157],"class_list":["post-139827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aer-lingus","tag-aer-lingus-ireland","tag-aer-lingus-pittsburgh","tag-bookings","tag-flight-bookings","tag-flights","tag-ireland-flight","tag-ireland-flights","tag-pit","tag-pittsbrugh-to-ireland","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-aer-lingus","tag-pittsburgh-airport","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-ireland","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-to-dublin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}