Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

tv221

International Aviation Services Centre signs up drone company with up to 25 jobs to be created. Hopefully the first of many.
https://www.businessworld.ie/news/Drone-company-announces-25-jobs-for-Shannon-568751.html

Balf

tv221 wrote: »

International Aviation Services Centre signs up drone company with up to 25 jobs to be created. Hopefully the first of many.
https://www.businessworld.ie/news/Drone-company-announces-25-jobs-for-Shannon-568751.html

Can't find out much about them.

They seem to be based in Galway at present.

http://www.a-techsyn.com/index.php/contact-us

Galway Technology Centre, Mervue Business Park Mervue/Galway H91 D932, Ireland

JCX BXC

7 scheduled transatlantic arrivals and 9 scheduled transatlantic departures (possibly 11 if the 2 Turkish cargo A330's arrive) tomorrow, the most I've seen in a long long time.

RocketRaccoon

JCX BXC wrote: »

7 scheduled transatlantic arrivals and 9 scheduled transatlantic departures (possibly 11 if the 2 Turkish cargo A330's arrive) tomorrow, the most I've seen in a long long time.

One of the Turkish will be a Kalitta 747.

Brennans Row

The UK Airport Provisional Statistics for May are out.

Comhrá

According to Facebook, today's Norwegian D8182 from Snn. to Providence is cancelled due to a technical hitch.

JCX BXC

7 diversions to Shannon this evening due to low visibility at Dublin


EI249 (EIN24K) LGW-DUB diverting to SNN
FR7225 (RYR9JR) ACE-DUB diverting to SNN
FR1977 (RYR49WY) RIX-DUB diverting to SNN
FR1959 (RYR7CZ) NCE-DUB diverting to SNN
FR1902 (RYR8ND) KRK-DUB diverting to SNN
FR7359 (RYR73W) BRI-DUB diverting to SNN
FR271 (RYR88FN) STN-DUB diverting to SNN

They diverted in this order.

tv221

Comhra wrote: »

According to Facebook, today's Norwegian D8182 from Snn. to Providence is cancelled due to a technical hitch.

That's a shame. No cake today so. Technical hitch's anywhere else I wonder?:mad:

Not gonna call it a farce yet. But one could see this when Dublin magically appeared out of the blue for Norwegian.

highlydebased

JCX BXC wrote:

7 diversions to Shannon this evening due to low visibility at Dublin

Lots of people complaining on twitter about being stuck at the airport overnight

JCX BXC

tv221 wrote: »

That's a shame. No cake today so. Technical hitch's anywhere else I wonder?:mad:

Not gonna call it a farce yet. But one could see this when Dublin magically appeared out of the blue for Norwegian.

Well last night's Providence to Edinburgh flight was also cancelled, Edinburgh being the pillar of the entire operation and having the largest amount of flights.

Why are people so quick to call conspiracy theory and feel like the airport is being somehow oppressed? It's even worse with the Cork crowd.

JCX BXC

highlydebased wrote: »

Lots of people complaining on twitter about being stuck at the airport overnight

Ouch, I don't envy them.

tv221

JCX BXC wrote: »

Well last night's Providence to Edinburgh flight was also cancelled, Edinburgh being the pillar of the entire operation and having the largest amount of flights.

Why are people so quick to call conspiracy theory and feel like the airport is being somehow oppressed? It's even worse with the Cork crowd.

No conspiracy feelings at all. I don't believe there's demand for 4 airports to visit
Providence from the getgo. If it was a pax load factor, it wouldn't surprise me that their wasn't enough passengers wanting to go on a Monday afternoon, with several flights out over the weekend elsewhere. It'll take awhile for that much capacity to work it's self out. I''ll hold off on the conspiracies until it happens

JCX BXC

tv221 wrote: »

No conspiracy feelings at all. I don't believe there's demand for 4 airports to visit
Providence from the getgo. If it was a pax load factor, it wouldn't surprise me that their wasn't enough passengers wanting to go on a Monday afternoon, with several flights out over the weekend elsewhere. It'll take awhile for that much capacity to work it's self out. I''ll hold off on the conspiracies until it happens

I'd disagree, Shannon flights are only 2pw, and I can't see them fairing worse than the cork flights.

You do realise that the aircraft had a tech issue and was stuck in Shannon right? The flight arrived yesterday morning with PAX but was then grounded?

tv221

JCX BXC wrote: »

I'd disagree, Shannon flights are only 2pw, and I can't see them fairing worse than the cork flights.

You do realise that the aircraft had a tech issue and was stuck in Shannon right? The flight arrived yesterday morning with PAX but was then grounded?

Most planes can be fixed in Shannon in a couple of hours. Of course it may have been a huge problem that required a unique part to be flown in. But that aside their prices are very good through July /Aug vs AerLingus

JCX BXC

tv221 wrote: »

Most planes can be fixed in Shannon in a couple of hours. Of course it may have been a huge problem that required a unique part to be flown in. But that aside their prices are very good through July /Aug vs AerLingus

Fares very good compared to Aer Lingus? Is that not the point of the service?

tv221

JCX BXC wrote: »

Fares very good compared to Aer Lingus? Is that not the point of the service?

I assume your just being arsy for the sake of it now

vkid

tv221 wrote:

No conspiracy feelings at all. I don't believe there's demand for 4 airports to visit Providence from the getgo. If it was a pax load factor, it wouldn't surprise me that their wasn't enough passengers wanting to go on a Monday afternoon, with several flights out over the weekend elsewhere. It'll take awhile for that much capacity to work it's self out. I''ll hold off on the conspiracies until it happens

Where has anyone said there wasn't enough passengers? Not what I have heard tbh

tv221

vkid wrote: »

Where has anyone said there wasn't enough passengers? Not what I have heard tbh

"If it was a pax load factor". Just shocked that it happened on it's inaugural, and was musing reasons. Obviously I'm sorry I did that as it has proven not to be the case, and it's annoyed people. Which was not intention.

JCX BXC

tv221 wrote: »

"If it was a pax load factor". Just shocked that it happened on it's inaugural, and was musing reasons. Obviously I'm sorry I did that as it has proven not to be the case, and it's annoyed people. Which was not intention.

You clearly intended to imply that, I only confirmed that it wasn't the case.

Also, generally flights are never cancelled due to intermittent poor loads, even if theres 3 passengers booked on a flight, it's either cancelled with notice or it goes ahead if there's an aircraft available.

I've had a family member on a SNN-BOS flight was around 40 people onboard!

tv221

JCX BXC wrote: »

You clearly intended to imply that, I only confirmed that it wasn't the case.

Also, generally flights are never cancelled due to intermittent poor loads, even if theres 3 passengers booked on a flight, it's either cancelled with notice or it goes ahead if there's an aircraft available.

I've had a family member on a SNN-BOS flight was around 40 people onboard!

It's just a shame it's gotten bad press now, as there was almost nothing on the day itself.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/passengers-left-for-five-hours-with-no-information-after-one-of-norwegians-first-transatlantic-flights-was-cancelled-35894009.html

Brennans Row

tv221 wrote: »

It's just a shame it's gotten bad press now, as there was almost nothing on the day itself.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/passengers-left-for-five-hours-with-no-information-after-one-of-norwegians-first-transatlantic-flights-was-cancelled-35894009.html

Sh*t happens.

It seems that the same aircraft had diverted to Iceland while on route from Bergen (Norway) to Providence (USA) on Sunday.

The aircraft must be fixed now as it left Shannon today for Edinburgh.

Brennans Row

The CSO statistics for March are out.

First quarter is disappointing.

marno21

Brennans Row wrote: »

The CSO statistics for March are out.

First quarter is disappointing.

Did Aer Lingus reduce frequency on Boston services this year or is there another reason for such a drop?

Given how important the Boston service is for business travel for the midwest that's a worrying drop.

JCX BXC

IIRC, there was no reduction for Boston in March, however next year it'll be reducing from 6pw to 5pw.

The continuous drops on Transatlantic routes from the airport is majorly concerning, however alot of the March drops can be attributed to Easter time falling differently.

There were some good increases this march compared to last march too,
Malaga carried 2,930 (up from 1,479),
Birmingham carried 2,940 (up from 2,590),
Edinburgh carried 2,059 (up from 1,462),
Fuerteventura carried 1,162 (up from 728).
Wroclaw carried 3,144 (up from 2,768)

However, some concerning drops were also witnessed.
Boston carried 5,328 (down from 7,462)
Beauvais carried nobody (down from 2,281)
Manchester carried 7,042 (down from 9,158, however it did better than some summer months)
Stansted carried 16,900 (down from 20,373)
Berlin carried 2,055 (down from 2,613 and massive decrease from previous month's due to stupid timetabling)

I have a feeling we could see passenger numbers fall this year compared to 2016. The summer BOS numbers will also be very low compared to last year due to ops only being 757.

Brennans Row

Holiday jet diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

Primera Air flight PRW-142 was travelling from Almería in Southern Spain to Reykjavik in Iceland at the time.

There were 176 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 737-800 jet which was due to route west of Co Kerry before the crew opted to divert to Shannon.

Brennans Row

United Airlines Aircraft N17126
2017-07-09 UA24 Shannon (SNN) to New York (EWR) Departed
2017-07-09 UA66 Chicago (ORD) to Shannon (SNN) Landed

United Airlines Aircraft N41135
2017-07-09 UA67 Shannon (SNN) to Chicago (ORD) Canceled
2017-07-09 UA25 New York (EWR) to Shannon (SNN) Landed

Why was the Chicago flight canceled today and the aircraft was used for New York instead?

Jamie2k9

Brennans Row wrote: »

United Airlines Aircraft N17126
2017-07-09 UA24 Shannon (SNN) to New York (EWR) Departed
2017-07-09 UA66 Chicago (ORD) to Shannon (SNN) Landed

United Airlines Aircraft N41135
2017-07-09 UA67 Shannon (SNN) to Chicago (ORD) Canceled
2017-07-09 UA25 New York (EWR) to Shannon (SNN) Landed

Why was the Chicago flight canceled today and the aircraft was used for New York instead?

They always do an aircraft swap, its crewed by EWR staff and most likely their maintenance base also.

You will see on the above link they do the same at DUB.

highlydebased

As Jamie says they swap at SNN as part of the normal schedule

Brennans Row

United Airlines Aircraft N41135
2017-07-10 UA67 Shannon (SNN) to Chicago (ORD) Landed 11:33

United Airlines Aircraft N13110
2017-07-10 UA2750 Shannon (SNN) to Chicago (ORD) Landed 11:14

Yesterdays cancelled flight and todays planned flight both got going today.

hondabanner

shannon to newark not going for 3 months in winter, NOT GOOD!!!