Although I'd gotten one right after purchasing our tickets, I got another one today. I'm guessing because there was a change in the time of the flight. When I printed the one I got today, I noticed the following line:

"Refund administration fee of EUR 15.00 or equivalent per ticket will apply to this booking for tax refunds."

Can anyone tell me what that means?

Thanks!

If you cancel, you are entitled to a refund of what they call "taxes", which are airport charges and miscellaneous components which often amount to more than the cost of the flight itself. They will deduct €15.00 from each refund (two deductions on a return flight). This is irrelevant if you don't cancel.

Was the time of your flight changed? That is the only circumstance that I know of where they send you another notification, and then it is the flight notification rather than the seat allocation.

You don't actually need any of those documents with you. All you need is your passport and your booking reference number. You don't need the seat allocation notification or any acknowledgement of having booked a bag to be carried in the hold. I generally print out only the first page of the flight confirmation because it summarises the flight details and includes the reference number. Printing anything else is a waste of paper.

Thanks, Padraig! Yes, they did change the time of the flight. They moved it up 25 minutes. Which shorts us slightly on our sight seeing time in Dublin. But, since it will get us to our hotel in Paris a little bit earlier, it's probably to our advantage.

Is this sort of time change common with Aer Lingus flights?

I don't think so. It has happened to me only once.

I can't see why it should happen at all. They plan a schedule months in advance; they know flying times and turnaround times; they have margins built in for delays outside their control.

Perhaps the pilot put in a request to be allowed get home early that night because it is his wife's birthday (or her husband's birthday -- Aer Lingus seems to employ more and more woman drivers).

Hi cap,

>Is this sort of time change common with Aer Lingus flights?<

It's common with all carriers.

I've had my flights for my upcoming visit to Europe changed 3 times - sometimes only a 5 min schedule change.

You are lucky that you got your seats reconfirmed.

I've had to redo my seats each time they changed the schedule.

My first thought was that maybe it had something to do with the US going to Daylight Savings Time early. I heard somewhere that, because Europe doesn't change until later, it's cost the American airline industry huge amounts of money to renegotiate landing times, etc. So perhaps it's goofing up times for other countries' flights as well. But, again, that's something they would have known about for quite a while.