Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Tiernster7 · 20-09-2021 6:56pm

Question for the folks who spotted the changes to Ryanair schedule, I didn't see it advertised by Ryanair on any of their channels. It was useful to family members I have in Edinburgh and who were looking at October. How can one be notified of airline schedules aside from a very useful for rum like this?

Comhrá · 22-09-2021 2:16pm

American Airlines has announced it's return to Shannon from May 6, 2022 with a daily service to Philadelphia using a Boeing 787.

http://clareherald.com/2021/09/american-airlines-to-operate-larger-aircraft-from-shannon-78787/

United are also set for return with services to Newark resuming some time in March. No news about Delta so far.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/business/668032/transatlantic-flights-set-to-resume-at-shannon-airport.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR05MLxd5Elxlz1k1pZZvSwNlftJafNep703PXkqm4oHmtIyfedjjoPxirk

22-09-2021 7:39pm

Pity Aer Lingus couldnt give commitment :/

Brennans Row · 28-09-2021 8:54pm

http://clareherald.com/2021/09/padraig-o-ceidigh-appointed-shannon-group-chairperson-designate-28091/

He seems to have the right business experience for the job.

The airport needs to focus agressively on getting all its lost business restored due to Covid.

Brennans Row · 28-09-2021 9:07pm

Six West’s new office has opened at Shannon Free Zone on the Shannon Group campus (Six West)

Six West joins more than 80 firms in Ireland’s largest aerospace and aviation cluster which represents the industry’s entire value chain, with everything from aircraft leasing, maintenance and recycling to component manufacture, parts repair and business aviation.

Matthew Gee, Six West’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “We are delighted to join this dynamic aviation community. Our presence in the home of aircraft leasing gives us a strong base to deliver the same high level of services to local aircraft lessors, banks, airlines and owners.

AnRothar · 28-09-2021 10:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117951626#Comment_117951626

Would not expect much from him.

Cosmo Kramer · 29-09-2021 1:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117951626#Comment_117951626

His previous experience in the aviation sector wouldn't exactly amount to a ringing endorsement of his credentials for this position in my opinion...

Brennans Row · 29-09-2021 7:50pm

How a five-day business course changed a life (Financial Times – May 2017)

Pádraig Ó Céidigh has a thing about rabbits — the metaphorical kind.

“You cannot chase two of them at once,” he says, while admitting he has spent much of his life and career “chasing absolutely loads — often other people’s as well as my own”.

A serial entrepreneur, politician, solicitor and former teacher, Ó Céidigh is best known as the former owner of Aer Arann, the Irish airline that almost went bust in 2010 amid sky-high fuel costs and following a lengthy price war with Ryanair.

He left in 2012 after helping to steer the business out of examinership — the Irish version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. What followed was an appointment to Ireland’s upper house, the Senate, and a high-profile role leading a committee that reported in April on the emotive issue of whether Irish households should pay for excessive water use. In his spare time, he is buying up nursing homes.

For Ó Céidigh, however, this portfolio of roles represents a significant concentration of focus compared with what he was doing several years ago.

A heart attack in 2012, during which he says “my heart stopped and I truly went over to the other side”, was partly the result of overwork. Yet after recovering, he quickly stacked up community and corporate commitments that were “all over the place”, he says, ranging from a job on Ireland’s tourism board to seats on the boards of Ireland’s national sea fishing body and state broadcaster RTE.

He was clocking 90-hour working weeks when salvation came in the unlikely form of yet another job offer — this time to develop a leadership course for YPO, the global chief executives’ association. As was his habit, he said “yes, that would be interesting”, he explains.

To understand what he would need to do, he enrolled on the High Performance Leadership programme at IMD, the Swiss business school. He says the experience, although it lasted just five and a half days, was to change his life.

He gained “a deeper perspective on my life and who I am and what I am about”. The few days were pivotal, Ó Céidigh says, because as a result “I am more focused.”

After the course in 2015, he quit his tourism role, the fishing board, RTE and multiple other commitments. The jobs were too numerous for him to achieve much, he says, adding: “You cannot make a difference if you are chasing too many rabbits.”

When he received a phone call one Friday night last November from Simon Coveney, minister for housing, planning, community and local government, who invited him to chair the Oireachtas (parliament) committee on water charges, he signed up in the knowledge he could “concentrate primarily on this role and do my absolute best to get it right”.

The programme, he explains, was not the usual business school fare of “case studies about Sir Alex Ferguson or Elon Musk”. Ó Céidigh, whose experience bringing Aer Arann back from the brink is in fact a case study for Harvard Business School students, found the IMD experience more about talking than textbooks. “You are your own case study,” he says.

Before the course, he says, he had to identify his three biggest successes in life and his three worst failures. He also had to write out what he perceived as his timeline, recording his major developmental and turning points and how he felt at each.

In Lausanne, small groups of students discussed each other’s timelines. “We broke up into groups of six or seven people with a coach who brings everyone through [each student’s] process,” he says, “in what was basically our own mentoring group where everyone shares their life stories.”

Ó Céidigh, who taught secondary school for 10 years and also practises mindfulness on a daily basis, found the group discussion and introspection enjoyable. More traditional business leaders who spend their time directing and assessing others might find it less easy. “It is a really deep dive into yourself,” he says. “Like throwing off all your clothes and you are there, stark naked, saying ‘what am I made of now and who do I want to be?’”

None of this will shock participants, however. IMD’s course brochure says it involves “self-awareness and ‘mind’s eye’ exercises”.

Something else Ó Céidigh learnt to do on the IMD course was to identify what he calls his “secure base”, which he says could be “your family, the key people around you, while there are also people that are destabilising”.

“IMD gets you to look at that in both your personal and your professional life,” he continues. “Both are totally interactive, you see. It is all integrated.”

Last year, Ó Céidigh attended a second short course at IMD, led by the same programme director, George Kohlrieser, who besides a solid academic background is a former hostage negotiator. “We were in the mountains in Switzerland and took over a smallish family hotel there,” he says of the second course — IMD’s Advanced High Performance Leadership programme. “We walked the mountainside and had one-on-one reflective time and one-on-one coaching.”

After his water committee job, Ó Céidigh says, he will return to acquiring care homes and running Aer Arann Islands, a small airline he owns 100 per cent of, which was formerly part of Aer Arann group. He is convinced what he learnt at IMD will make him a better manager of the 300 staff he oversees at his businesses because he will now have more focus.

He says of running Aer Arann: “I was on top of everything and everyone came to me with their issue. They would circumvent delegation and come to me and I would try and help them with things like mortgages and loans,” he says. “Someone once went through a separation and I helped her get a solicitor.” He had, he says, “created that situation where you allow yourself to run after other people’s rabbits”.

Now, he says, he will help staff identify and nurture their own “secure base”. This, he believes could be a crucial management tool — boosting recruitment, retention and productivity.

“I will be trying to strengthen the base in the company so that people are actively part of the growth rather than passively part of it, rather than coming in doing their job and going home. I want them to understand they should contribute to the company because it is part of their own secure, stable base.”

As for the rabbits, he is determined to let them scamper away. “If your focus is too big and too dispersed, you miss things,” he says. “I need to be more into keeping that big picture perspective and now I think I can.”

So how did a few days at IMD’s Lausanne campus help the overworked and under-focused Ó Céidigh overhaul his work and personal life? It was due to the elements of “psychotherapy and psychology”, he says. “The IMD course helped me dig deep into myself and ask myself what is important to me and what I want to achieve.”

Brennans Row · 29-09-2021 8:37pm

Skyports obtains Light UAS Operator Certificate (Clare Herald)

Skyports, the world-leading operator of cargo drone deliveries and advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure, has obtained a Light UAS Operator Certificate from the Irish Aviation Authority, permitting the self-authorisation of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone flights.

This is the first such certificate issued by an EU regulator.

Those collaborating in this venture are: Skyports, the world’s leading passenger air taxi and cargo drone vertiport provider; Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), Ireland’s first testbed for future mobility located next to Shannon Airport; Avtrain, Europe’s leading drone training and certification body; and Shannon Group’s International Aviation Services Centre, which supports and promotes one of Ireland’s largest aviation clusters located at Shannon.

See also previous post #6988

or

Ambitious drone vertiport plans for Shannon (Clare Herald – May 2021)

Henry Ford III · 30-09-2021 1:42pm

Flew Ryanair to Lanzarote ex Snn recently.

Airport is a joy to use. It's fairly quiet still, but is friendly and simply crying out for more flights. Ryanair were fine btw. Flights were full but took off and arrived ahead of schedule. Even the onboard fanfare wasn't too bad.

Parking is expensive however with Park4Less closed, so we all got lifts to and from the airport instead.

01-10-2021 8:07pm

Does anyone no what’s happening with Ryanair? All flights from SNN have been removed from sale?

JamesBond2010 · 01-10-2021 8:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117964745#Comment_117964745

200k seats from 19.99 ?? Manchester is only one showing now

01-10-2021 8:58pm

Sorry looked like routes were off sale. But looks like it was a glitch. There back now

Aer Lingus on the plus side look to be keeping LHR on. Seems to be operated daily until February with the NEO. From February frequency starts to increase. its 3 daily from 27 March

JamesBond2010 · 01-10-2021 9:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117964947#Comment_117964947

It was a sign 😂😂,It doesnt want you going anywhere😛

01-10-2021 9:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117964953#Comment_117964953

😂😂 lol.

Tiernster7 · 01-10-2021 11:47pm

Cork Paris with vueling following on from the Ryanair news. Cork looks like it will make a quick recovery.

Shannon will need more then Ryanair servicing European routes I think

Cookiemunster · 02-10-2021 10:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117965884#Comment_117965884

Lets see how long that lasts when FR also add that route and undercut Vueling until the pull the route. They've already seen Easyjet and Wizzair out of the Irish low cost market, you can almost guarantee they'll use the same tactic here.

Deagol · 03-10-2021 10:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117966449#Comment_117966449

RA don't fly to CdG so not sure it's a valid comparison. Also, Vuelling are not a point to point airline like RA so connections to other places globally with other AIG airlines are an option so they may attract a decent amount of business travelers. The only real downside is that CdG is a nightmare airport in my experience and I know a lot of people will avoid it at all costs unless it's totally the only option.

Tiernster7 · 03-10-2021 11:36am

The flight is to Orly, not cdg.

Do Shannon have any chance of getting a route like this or the Amsterdam one Cork have with KLM.

JCX BXC · 03-10-2021 12:02pm

That's kinda like asking "is there any chance of snow at Christmas."

Yeah probably, but anyone here will only give you guesswork.

JCX BXC · 03-10-2021 12:09pm

Notable that Aer Lingus have loaded Boston from the 10th of March (Arrival: 6am, Departure: 1:30pm) and JFK from the 27th of March (Arrival: 5:40am, Departure 12:50pm).

Both routes daily, but what jumps out at me is the 7-7.5hours layover in Shannon for both aircraft. Perhaps a Heathrow rotation, or something more exciting like the pre-covid planned Barcelona or Paris CDG.

Then again, it is Aer Lingus. Will be interesting to see!

Deagol · 03-10-2021 12:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117970099#Comment_117970099

Apologies, assumed it was CdG. Not familiar with Orly but looking at connections it's somewhat a basement airport but with some useful connections - but mainly seems to be holiday destinations. I still can't imagine RA will be able to squash it effectively given that they fly to BVA which is in the middle of nowhere and has very little to offer in the way of connections.

AnRothar · 03-10-2021 12:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117970198#Comment_117970198

You answered your own question at the very end.

03-10-2021 1:13pm

The NEO will be back on the EI380/1 SNN LHR morning run it seems so will operate this daily before SNN JFK

Tiernster7 · 03-10-2021 3:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117970172#Comment_117970172

More wondering is AL the only likely candidate (with a bag of govt cash) to give the added connectivity. I know Lufthansa previously had something to Frankfurt, but can't think of another airline where that prospect exists.

Tiernster7 · 03-10-2021 8:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117970198#Comment_117970198

If I remember correctly these routes CDG and Barc were facilitated by govt sweetener money, is it possible they are locked in to run them again(or more likely if govt is giving sweeteners these will be suggested routes)

Brennans Row · 04-10-2021 11:58am

Finding new and innovative ways to deliver the World to our customers‘ doorsteps (Post and Parcel)

Last week, FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., in collaboration with Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) Air, announced the completion of its first scheduled drone last-mile delivery flight in Ireland.

The delivery marks the launch of a trial service delivering goods from FMCI, based at Shannon Airport, County Clare, to Foynes Port, County Limerick, Ireland’s second-largest port operator and largest bulk port company.

The drone deliveries were conducted by Skyports, a world-leading operator of cargo drone deliveries, on behalf of the FMCI Air consortium which also includes Avtrain, Shannon Group and FMCI.

The delivery of the first FedEx Express package in Ireland via drone demonstrates the benefits of drone delivery for last-mile service and the commitment by FedEx to exploring the latest innovations in last-mile delivery.

The delivery is part of a month-long trial which will see a number of test flights conducted in the Mid-West region, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) between Shannon Airport and Foynes Port, with deliveries anticipated to be made in under 13 minutes. Clare County and Limerick City and County Council have shown their support for the project, highlighting the role that the councils are playing and leading from an innovation perspective.