Aer Arann suspended its operations on 19 March 2014, as it announced that it would be changing its corporate name to Stobart Air by the end of 2014. It was a regional airline based in
Dublin, Ireland, and operated services on behalf of Aer Lingus Regional. Aer Arann was started in 1970 by James Coen and Ralph Langan to provide an island-hopping air service between Galway and the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The airline had three bases-one in Cork, another one in Dublin, and the third one in Shannon.