Is Aer Lingus or Air Canada better to Europe?

Air Canada scores 8.5/10 against Aer Lingus at 7/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Aer Lingus wins 0 and Air Canada wins 2. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.

Which is cheaper, Aer Lingus or Air Canada?

On the 23 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Aer Lingus was cheaper on 7 and Air Canada on 16. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.

Does the aircraft change the answer?

Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.

Has Jon flown either of these?

Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.

Head to head

Aer Lingus vs Air Canada

Air Canada scores 8.5/10 against Aer Lingus at 7/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare.

By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified August 30, 2026 · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026

Best product each one flies

Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.

One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.

Aer Lingus

A330-300

Seat: 5/10
IFE: 8/10
Lounge & bags: 10/10
Value: 5/10
Product score: 7/10

Air Canada

777-300ER / 787-9 / A330-300 (Signature)

Seat: 8/10
IFE: 8/10
Lounge & bags: 10/10
Value: 8/10
Product score: 8.5/10

Dimension by dimension

Seat: Air Canada
5/10 on the A330-300 against 8/10 on the 777-300ER / 787-9 / A330-300 (Signature).
IFE: level
Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 8/10.
Lounge & bags: level
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.
Value: Air Canada
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 5/10 against 8/10.

Where both were priced on the same dates

Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.

Route	Cabin	Aer Lingus	Air Canada	Cheaper
BOS → DUB	economy	$680	$635	Air Canada by $45
BOS → BCN	economy	$698	$637	Air Canada by $61
BOS → CDG	economy	$718	$707	Air Canada by $11
BOS → FCO	economy	$777	$739	Air Canada by $38
IAD → DUB	economy	$943	$747	Air Canada by $196
ORD → FCO	economy	$1152	$769	Air Canada by $383
LAX → ZRH	economy	$996	$777	Air Canada by $219
ORD → BCN	economy	$794	$795	Aer Lingus by $1
ORD → LIS	economy	$1181	$799	Air Canada by $382
SFO → DUB	economy	$1222	$817	Air Canada by $405
ORD → ZRH	economy	$1164	$866	Air Canada by $298
LAX → MAN	economy	$1166	$912	Air Canada by $254
RDU → DUB	economy	$1162	$1103	Air Canada by $59
PHL → MAN	economy	$1107	$1347	Aer Lingus by $240
SFO → CDG	economy	$1315	$1314	Air Canada by $1
ORD → FCO	business	$4863	$4614	Air Canada by $249
IAD → DUB	business	$5668	$4861	Air Canada by $807
ORD → BCN	business	$5727	$7581	Aer Lingus by $1854
PHL → DUB	business	$6279	$6128	Air Canada by $151
PHL → MAN	business	$6138	$10796	Aer Lingus by $4658
PHL → FCO	business	$6784	$7357	Aer Lingus by $573
ORD → MAN	business	$6855	$7069	Aer Lingus by $214
RDU → DUB	business	$7920	$7928	Aer Lingus by $8

Common questions

Is Aer Lingus or Air Canada better to Europe?: Air Canada scores 8.5/10 against Aer Lingus at 7/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Aer Lingus wins 0 and Air Canada wins 2. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
Which is cheaper, Aer Lingus or Air Canada?: On the 23 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Aer Lingus was cheaper on 7 and Air Canada on 16. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
Does the aircraft change the answer?: Not on seat: both carriers fly a consistent product across the aircraft we have verified.
Has Jon flown either of these?: Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.

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