Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Ryanair do a fair amount of Beach/sun destinations from Shannon so no point in package companies trying to compete. Don’t think Ryanair do as much out of Cork.

Any idea what Shannon's 2021 PAX was? Cork was quite low because of COVID and the airport closure, down from 2.5m to 530k to 258k

There is a piece in the Clare Echo by Eoin Neylon suggesting Shannon has not kept with times technologically and that aircraft turnaround times are poor because of this making negotiations with new airlines difficult. Does anyone know what specific technology they are short and the funding that would be required?

Do you need to prebook your parking for Shannon?

Travelled through Dublin airport in the last 2 months with huge delays at security.

What an absolute kip of an airport with the rudest and most arrogant security staff in the planet.

Isn't it time to make hay at Shannon and promote it as an easy of use, stress free airport to fly from. All a pleasure to depart from there.

But if SNN doesn't have the direct routes to destinations that people want to fly to, then people will continue to fly from DUB. Half the population of the country live one hours drive from DUB so even with a temporary issue with security (and that is really just at certain pinchpoint times before 9am and at weekends, it will still take less time than driving 2 or more hours to SNN.

If there is a destination served by both SNN and DUB then yes that might be a viable option to drive the extra distance to SNN.

Nobody seems to be realising the issue here. If they move flights from Dublin to Shannon as one moronic local politician wants to happen then it will result in the same thing happening in Shannon due to a lack of staff.

I'd say there is capacity for some extra flights most mornings based on going through terminal regularly recently. That said it probably is only a few and that would be a pretty negligible impact for Dublin but a big one for Shannon.

Yip most of them are 2 times a week. A quick comparison of Faro prices in Shannon (3 times per week) vs Dublin (26) in July is pretty clearcut that Shannon has sold very well for this route and that a 4th weekly flight would likewise.

Bear in mind Aer Lingus services this route 21 times per week and you can see some changes are possible in medium term.

These are the gains that are there to be made and as with other years you'd be confident Ryanair will make them if scheduling allows.

The big thing for shannon and the other airports aparts outside of dublin is to try and capitalise on the existing routes in place while the mayhem in dublin continues. Increase these passenger numbers and then use it as a bargining tool for new routes from them going forward ie like Paris for example

The thing is, if you bring in 4-5 extra Ryanair flights a day, while it seems small it would stretch Swissport beyond what they are able to offer right now which would result in delays. Look at Manchester lately for evidence of severe ground handling delays.

Did i dream it or is there a 20% parking discount available now?