Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

tv221

JCX BXC wrote: »

What would you suggest doing to keep the loonies out? A concrete prison type wall?

It's very easy to gain through any airport perimeter fence if you really want to.

Yes it easy to gain access. But if you task 2-4 soilders with protecting something their within 5-10 meters of and they fail miserably, I mean they failed in their duty. .

Even the last incursion at 06:30 is being dealt with lightly. If I hadn't of been pulling into work and heard the stress the star air freighter or ASL was under as it aborted landing having saw them next to runway, i'd be less critical.

Yes Shannon APO staff have doubled or tripled patrols noticeably since that event. And I'm not blaming them

tv221

Good old UN Dr Ed hey. He told the judge to basically do one, and Judge King did. Oh too be part of the establishment.
http://www.clare.fm/news/two-appear-court-criminal-damage-us-navy-plane-shannon/

tv221

So tomorrow's the beginning of Lufthansa's LH 984 Frankfurt to Shannon, County Clare
Hopefully the first of many new services.

highlydebased

Revamped departures bar has opened. Looks fantastic.

https://twitter.com/Zestlimerick/status/858342909522870276

JCX BXC

Kuwait won't be stopping their stopover at Shannon for the foreseeable future.

To be honest, it seems like the one organisation made up the rumour, postponed it and then cancelled it. I've not personally read any comment by Shannon, Kuwait airways or Stansted on the matter.

hobie14

highlydebased wrote: »

Revamped departures bar has opened. Looks fantastic.

https://twitter.com/Zestlimerick/status/858342909522870276

Too late for me ..... I've given up booze for ever .....:(

finbarrk

highlydebased wrote: »

Revamped departures bar has opened. Looks fantastic.

https://twitter.com/Zestlimerick/status/858342909522870276

Wouldn't be too hard to improve on the outdated menu that was in the old bar anyway. Best of luck to them.

JCX BXC

Delta's service to JFK resumes tomorrow.

Also note that several schedule changes are now in place in order to facilitate the runway works. Some I've noticed are

EI110 JFK-SNN arriving at 06:30 instead of 06:00,
Krakow, Warsaw and Fuerteventura departing and arriving about an hour earlier.

Brennans Row

The UK Airport Provisional Statistics for March are out.

Ryanair capacity cut backs at Stansted and Manchester are kicking in.

Brennans Row

Elderly man dies on flight at Shannon (Clare Herald)

An elderly man has died on board a transatlantic flight that diverted to Shannon Airport this afternoon.

Delta Air Lines flight DL-71 was en route from Dutch city of Amsterdam to Atlanta, Georgia in the US when the crew declared a medical emergency west of Donegal

Brennans Row

New jobs for Shannon (Clare Champion)

CAE Parc Aviation is to expand its workforce in Shannon and Dublin by a total of 80. The jobs will include recruitment consultants to service the needs of airlines for pilots and aviation engineers in the global aircraft leasing industry.

Brennans Row

Anna Aero Databases

2017 March 111,387 Passengers (-4.6%)

2017 April 137,284 Passengers (+7.2%)

JCX BXC

Concerning that passengers are being lost.

Cookiemunster

JCX BXC wrote: »

Concerning that passengers are being lost.

Easter was in March last year.

cnoc

Brennans Row wrote: »

Anna Aero Databases

2017 March 111,387 Passengers (-4.6%)

2017 April 137,284 Passengers (+7.2%)

What were the passenger numbers in Jan and Feb 2017?
How do they compare to the first 4 months of 2016?

JCX BXC

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Easter was in March last year.

Well aware of that thanks. The fall is still concerning for an airport that is apperently growing so well as you'd be led believe.

Brennans Row

cnoc wrote: »

What were the passenger numbers in Jan and Feb 2017?

See post 3733

Cookiemunster

JCX BXC wrote: »

Well aware of that thanks. The fall is still concerning for an airport that is apperently growing so well as you'd be led believe.

And it was up 7% in April. Which had Easter in it this year. It's clearly obvious that Easter makes a huge difference.

JCX BXC

Cookiemunster wrote: »

And it was up 7% in April. Which had Easter in it this year. It's clearly obvious that Easter makes a huge difference.

The​ up was inflated by April being the summer season.

Also worth noting that Kuwait are increasing these figures alot, but despite this march still had a loss of passenger numbers. Would April also have without this Kuwait service?

Edit : it'd still be growth, but it'd be +2.5% (rough) as opposed to +7.2%.

March would be down -9.1%

tv221

Fog causing issues this morning again, with low viz system turned off for duration of runway resurfacing. The two aer lingus us flights circled for a while and had a good look before landing. Fedex gone too Dublin again. They'll probably be happy too see a little rain tomorrow. Good weather this time of year always brings the fog in the am.

JCX BXC

tv221 wrote: »

Fog causing issues this morning again, with low viz system turned off for duration of runway resurfacing. The two aer lingus us flights circled for a while and had a good look before landing. Fedex gone too Dublin again. They'll probably be happy too see a little rain tomorrow. Good weather this time of year always brings the fog in the am.

Rare enough occurrence, if anything I'd say it'll.be the only fog related issue of the whole project, fog is quite uncommon May-September (fog isn't particularly common at Shannon at all), which is why they're doing the works in the summer.

If interested, the reason for this morning's fog is high humidity as we are leaving the 'heatwave'. Expect it to cloud over today and possible rain this evening and tomorrow.

Brennans Row

US-bound jet diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

Austrian Airlines flight OS-93 was travelling from Vienna, Austria to Washington in the US at the time. The flight was just off the Mayo coast around midday when the crew declared a medical emergency.

cnoc

Brennans Row wrote: »

See post 3733

Thanks, only saw your post this evening.

Brennans Row

Passenger dies on flight that diverted to Shannon (Clare Herald)

Yesterday, Air Canada flight AC-849 from London’s Heathrow Airport to Toronto in Canada diverted to the mid-west airport after the crew declared a medical emergency.

The Boeing 777 jet was about 400 kms north west of Mayo when the crew turned around. The flight rerouted to Shannon with cabin crew members battling to resuscitate the elderly woman.

Brennans Row

British Airways did a fuel stop at Shannon yesterday while routing from Paris to San Francisco.

I wonder did they avail of the US preclearance facilities too?

Ennisman

It was an Open Skies (France) flight. Wouldn't have used pre-clearance. Was scheduled to fly via Iceland originally.

marno21

According to a post on pprune, Lufthansa used an A320 instead of the usual A319 on the Frankfurt flight yesterday due to high loads. Very encouraging if true.

Brennans Row

They did use an A320 aircraft (D-AIUJ) yesterday, it would be nice to see it as a reflection of bookings.

Brennans Row

United Airways flight UA55 from Paris to New York has diverted to Shannon.

XsApollo

Woman's water broke on board.