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Ennisman

Shannon reporting 9% increase in UK traffic in first six months of this year compared to 2015 - Clare Herald

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Ennisman wrote: »

Shannon reporting 9% increase in UK traffic in first six months of this year compared to 2015 - Clare Herald

The increase on LHR and the returned BHX and EDI routes offsetting the loss on MAN?

Brennans Row

Flight diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

United Airlines flight UA-2078 was travelling from Athens in Greece to Newark in New Jersey when it turned around over the North Atlantic.

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Any news on how the Austrian Airlines charter has been doing?

Brennans Row

Shannon - Commercial Movements (IAA)

|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sept|Oct|Nov|Dec|Total
2015|1,253|1,026|1,277|1,454|1,725|2,169|2,058|1,728|1,780|1,645|1,283|1,312|18,710
2016|1,222|1,128|1,390|1,488|1,807|2,031|2,032||||||
Change|-2.5%|+9.9%|+8.8%|+2.3%|+4.8%|-6.4%|-1.3%||||||

Shannon757

Did a man get onto the runway in Shannon the other day because I'm hearing a lot of stories about it?

Jamie2k9

Routes released:
Malaga x3 from 2 May
Faro x4 from 30 April

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Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Routes released:
Malaga x3 from 2 May
Faro x4 from 30 April

Great to see Aer Lingus continuing their routes from Shannon.

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Seems to be a nightly TNT Airways cargo flight from Leeds lately, new cargo service?

Under the callsign 3V1377/TAY1477

hobie14

Anyone notice F-WNEW coming in around 11.30 this morning ?

First time I've seen the new A320 neo (maiden flight May 19th 2016) .....looks good ..... sounds good

Not close enough to Snn to see much but it certainly did a good few circuits ....

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hobie14 wrote: »

Anyone notice F-WNEW coming in around 11.30 this morning ?

First time I've seen the new A320 neo (maiden flight May 19th 2016) .....looks good ..... sounds good

Not close enough to Snn to see much but it certainly did a good few circuits ....

I wonder did Airbus do a bit of crosswind training yesterday too.

Brennans Row

Jet diverts to Shannon amid fire fear (Clare Herald)

Open Skies (France) flight BOS-1, a transatlantic airline owned by British Airways, was travelling from Orly Airport in Paris to Newark in the US at the time. There were 89 passengers and a crew of 5 on board.

The Boeing 757-200 jet was about three hours into its journey when the crew turned around. The crew informed air traffic controllers they had a ‘wheel well fire indication’ and wished to divert and land as soon as possible.

Shannon Airport’s emergency crews were placed on standby while units of the local authority fire brigade from Shannon, Ennis and Killaloe along with a number of ambulances and garda units were also requested to attend.

The Kilrush RNLI lifeboat was also placed on standby as a precaution.

The flight made of low level pass over the runway at Shannon to allow air traffic controllers check that all the landing gear had deployed and the see whether there was any indication of fire.

After completing the fly pass the crew repositioned for a full-stop landing and touched down safely at 9.32pm.

Ennisman

Brennans Row wrote: »

I wonder did Airbus do a bit of crosswind training yesterday too.

Apparently so. It did some ILS circuits at Brest and then came to Shannon. Did crosswind ILS testing.

A380 did the same in 2006 as part of its certification.

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So can we expect anything new to fill up the Ryanair schedule this summer?

With MAN down to 5pw, and NCE, PIS, BVA and possibly FMM cut, that leaves space for 10 weekly movements on two aircraft.

highlydebased

Carnacalla wrote: »

So can we expect anything new to fill up the Ryanair schedule this summer?

With MAN down to 5pw, and NCE, PIS, BVA and possibly FMM cut, that leaves space for 10 weekly movements on two aircraft.

I'd be very surprised if FMM was cut as it is popular with tour packages from germany. Besides there is already lots of slack in aircraft schedules as it stands

A good season this year for ORD and Delta JFK services too

Brennans Row

The airport has revealed a +5% increase in the US market for the first half of 2016.

Here the CSO figures from January to May.

Jamie2k9

Did United start lather in May this year? Didn't think AA started much earlier but quiet a good increase.
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Just spotted MAN down to x4 in winter, even for FR I am a little surprised how poorly it's doing for them. They won't really be in a position to cut it much more and the times are not wonderful could we maybe eventually see an EIR base return.

highlydebased

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Did United start lather in May this year? Didn't think AA started much earlier but quiet a good increase.
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Just spotted MAN down to x4 in winter, even for FR I am a little surprised how poorly it's doing for them. They won't really be in a position to cut it much more and the times are not wonderful could we maybe eventually see an EIR base return.

Usually last week in May it starts.

Good to see improvements on BOS also

MAN service is very poor, for a few weeks in Nov/start of Dec there is no service Tues/weds/thurs, and expensive fares too. We will see what happens for S17

highlydebased

May UK stats also out, +17% on LHR but quite a drop on MAN owing to the loss of 2x weekly

http://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/Standard_Content/Data_and_analysis/Datasets/Airport_stats/Airport_data_2016_05/May_2016_Provisional_International_Routes.pdf

Deagol

highlydebased wrote: »

Usually last week in May it starts.

Good to see improvements on BOS also

MAN service is very poor, for a few weeks in Nov/start of Dec there is no service Tues/weds/thurs, and expensive fares too. We will see what happens for S17

Could it be the terrible airport that MAN is? Flown out of it twice back to Shannon it both times had 30+ minute security waits. Facilities are very poor for the size and it was crowded and uncomfortable.

Talking to others that is not all unique perspective. I now actively avoid it and will use BHX in preference even if the prices are a little higher. Not worth the aggravation.

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Deagol wrote: »

Could it be the terrible airport that MAN is? Flown out of it twice back to Shannon it both times had 30+ minute security waits. Facilities are very poor for the size and it was crowded and uncomfortable.

Talking to others that is not all unique perspective. I now actively avoid it and will use BHX in preference even if the prices are a little higher. Not worth the aggravation.

Its more Ryanair coming and ridding stobarts 3x daily service, then cutting it down to nothing when they're gone.

peppa 1986

Waiting for Ryanair to put up flights from Shannon to Lanzarote for April 2017. They are available from Dublin already.

Deagol

Carnacalla wrote: »

Its more Ryanair coming and ridding stobarts 3x daily service, then cutting it down to nothing when they're gone.

Aye, Ryanair definitely a double edged sword for an airport like SNN

Though it begs the question, is Stobart getting the numbers on BHX route which is partially in competition with MAN?

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peppa 1986 wrote: »

Waiting for Ryanair to put up flights from Shannon to Lanzarote for April 2017. They are available from Dublin already.

You'll be waiting for the full schedule to be released, a month or two.

Brennans Row

Meet the Atlantic Aviation Group team at the MRO Europe Show (Atlantic Aviation)

Shannon based Atlantic Aviation Group will exhibit at stand 12-344 at the MRO Europe in the RAI Arena in Amsterdam on the 18th and 19th of October.

Brennans Row

Plane Diverts To Shannon After Passenger Falls Ill (ClareFM)

Thomson Airways flight TOM-729 was travelling from Cancun in Mexico to Glasgow around 5 o'clock this morning, when when the crew declared a medical emergency.

The Boeing 787-800 jet was several hundred kilometres south west of Ireland when crew told controllers that they wished to divert and land at Shannon and requested an ambulance be on standby for their arrival.

The flight continued its journey again at 7.20am.

Jamie2k9

FR relasing summer 17 now

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Alot of Ryanair's Schedule has been loaded. (Was actually typing as Jamie2k9 posted!)

Doesn't look very good to be honest.

Alicante - 2pw - Tuesday/Saturday - Based Aircraft
Berlin - Not Loaded
Faro - 3pw - Monday/Wednesday/Friday - Based Aircraft on a Wednesday
Fuerteventura - 1pw - Thursday - Based Aircraft
Kaunas - 2pw - Thursday/Sunday - Based Aircraft on a Sunday
Krakow - 2pw - Tuesday/Saturday (:mad:) -Based Aircraft
Lanzarote - 2pw - Monday/Friday
Gatwick - 7pw - Everyday - Based Aircraft
Stansted - 12pw - 2x Mon/Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun - Morning flight based
Malaga - 2pw - Monday/Friday - Based Aircraft
Majorca - 2pw - Wednesday/Sunday - Based Aircraft
Manchester - 4pw(:mad:) - Monday/Thursday/Friday/Sunday - Based on MON/THURS/FRI
Memmingen - Not Loaded (Probably dropped)
Paris - Not Loaded (Probably dropped)
Tenerife - 1pw - Thursday - Based Aircraft
Warsaw - 2pw - Wednesday/Sunday - Based Aircraft
Wroclaw - 2pw - Monday/Friday - Based Aircraft

So, overview. Loss of 9, possibly 11 weekly flights as opposed to last summer.

Changes

*Alicante moves from Wednesday/Sunday to a Tuesday/Saturday and now utilises a based aircraft both days.

*Berlin isn't loaded, hopefully it's not dropped, its a great route to have.

*Faro is now on a SNN based aircraft on a Wednesday

*Krakow moves from the wonderful Monday/Friday slot to the route killing Tuesday/Saturday slot. Great way to butcher a route. Lets hope it will return back to Monday/Friday for the winter.

*Lanzarote is now 2pw for the whole summer, instead of just June-September. The days are also now Monday/Friday, so a little better. The only bit of positive news here.

*London Stansted now loses the second flight on a Tuesday and Wednesday, and the third flight on a Friday and Sunday is also gone, a loss of 4 flights per week.

*Manchester has been reduced even further to 4pw, the Saturday flight now cut out. Absolutely disgraceful for a service that was once 3x daily. You see the real legacy of Ryanair with this route.

*Memmingen has not been loaded, and looking at the based aircraft schedule it won't be, its time slot is gone.

*Paris is also cut, but we knew that.

Since 2015, when the peak of Ryanair services were seen, we have gone from 66 weekly flights, to 48 weekly flights and lost 5 of those routes.

Another lesson for Shannon. Ryanair growth never lasts long. Outlook still positive this year?

highlydebased

Good summary but some of the based a/c marks are incorrect, Lanzarote not based for example

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highlydebased wrote: »

Good summary but some of the based a/c marks are incorrect, Lanzarote not based for example

Oops, I even knew that. Flick of the brain I'm afraid

Everything else is based on at least one flight.