Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

the passenger booking have fallen off the face of the earth because of Government Policies on passengers coming in from UK.

Also - the UK is a basket case with the virus and anyone would be made mad to risk travelling over there for a short/break etc...

Paring back of STN and LGW on certain days in Jan also. Was always traditionally quiet but I guess there's an additional complication!

Negative antigen test requirement looks like it will be removed from tomorrow, this combined with the isolation period reduction will hopefully see Ryanair proceed with full schedule again from February...

Does anyone have any info on the SNN BHX route by Aer Lingus?

Anyone have any information on London Luton this Summer?

I expected it to be on Ryanairs schedule for the year but surprised to see it ends in March but is 9 times per week from both Knock and Cork

Are you anticipating NEOs will be used for Heathrow shuttle or is anything else possible at this stage.

Website does include Barcelona and Paris with schedule not announced but unfortunately that is probably a legacy of 2019 routes rather than anything more interesting.

Looking at landscape I'd hoped one or 2 more routes may be added in advance of season starting but not too optimistic at this stage.

That makes sense. I guess there is 1 A320 based in Cork and after that you are looking at Dublin.

From the alternative European carriers Lufthansa and KLM seem the most likely but obviously nothing yet.

It is indeed. There seems to be a push for Paris too based on Shannon group media activity. Hopefully one of mentioned 3 pays off soon.

Hopefully the American routes go well this summer. It sounds like Air Canada to Toronto is also possible in 2024 too.

I do think that that northern European route is important for the airport. I haven't seen too much from Padraig yet but good to hear discussions are going well.

Shannon airport has plenty of potential it going to take a lot of work though esp to change the publics midset. Population is surely growing in midwest and west of Ireland. While the green bus direct to dublin airport is great it makes people lazy when booking flights. Working in limerick it does annoy me when youd hear people getting the green bus to get a flight to London. With the motorway developement M7 and Limerick to Galway it should be a more atttractive looking alternative to Dublin airport. Even though its on the national development plan its more than likely a pipe dream but the Limerick to Galway railline should have a stop where you change for shannon and have a line running though the industrial park onto the airport.

Having moved back to north tipp from cork 5 years ago Im starting to use shannon now more than cork where possible. I presonally perfer to use either over dublin. Just less traffic and then parking closer to the airport as a female traveller sometimes solo travelling is just feels safer getting from terminal to car. Would also be handier for people travelling with young kids.Last two trips were to Edinburgh and Lanzarote in 2019 The flight information board the day of the Lanzarote flight really struck me. I know it was mid oct but for 4 hrs after our flight there was only 2 other departures. Was sad to see.

Would love to see Shannon/Toronto get a chance. Good Irish community in Canada should be demand for it. Also Toronto is fabulous to visit in autumn time esp around Canadian thanksgiving. Its hard to describe but Canada does autumn really well. Good promotion on both sides is needed. Really need to tap into the likes of Irish group even get onto GAA clubs over ther (yes groan if you want) to plug such routes on their social media accounts to get things going

As well as some European routes shannon really should be pushing the runway lenght for long haul flights instead of just competing for european routes with Cork airport..

Long term for shannon i think there is potential to look east for example a Dubai flight. The upcoming census could be interesting in this regard. You just have to look around the midwest to see is recent years the population from India that are living in the midwest working for HSE, northern trust, firsev in nenagh to name just a few. On top of that its a stopover for Australia, New Zealand and many honeymoon destinations (even that market returns) not to mention the amount of Irish working in Dubai .

Have seen possibles.

Chat up above between Avgeek and I is on similar topic. The 2 planes at shannon from March will be maxed out by LHR, BOS and JFK so I wouldn't expect anything.

Ryanair fly to both from Shannon.

I'm not expecting a change from Al but if there was to be a change it won't be for a route serviced by Ryanair already.

So a no for flights to be announced from SNN to FAO? Guess I'll be heading to dublin then

Some good news I missed, Air Malta will be running the Budapest route for Ryanai, they code share with quite a few airlines. I think this adds a little bit of connectivity for the middle East and Africa.

This is based on a Shannon Airport tweet.

The summer season on website references this service being 5 times per week.

Shannon is not listed on air Maltas website but Ryanair are flying to Budapest twice per week for the summer according to app.

I'm not sure what is going on here.

Also Malta not listed on shannon summer 22 list but there are flights.

Malta air don't seem to have a website themselves , makes things even more confusing