Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Brennans Row

Diversions to Shannon

• Ryanair flight FR121 from Gatwick to Dublin.
• United Airlines flight UA126 from Washington to Dublin.

Brennans Row

Emergency services conducting major terror training exercise at Shannon Airport (Limerick Leader)

Emergency services are taking part in a major training exercise at Shannon Airport this Tuesday afternoon.

The bilateral training exercise between An Garda Síochána and Defence Forces is focusing on a simulated armed attack by members of a ‘Doomesday cult’ and is being simulated in the departure lounge of the facility.

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AAI and UL announce new postgrad module (Clare Herald)

Shannon based aviation training school Atlantic Aviation Institute (AAI), which is a subsidiary of Atlantic Aviation Group, and the University of Limerick (UL) has announced a new partnership which will see the launch of a new EASA Part 21 Design Engineering postgraduate module (accredited at Level 9, 6 ECTS).

The partnership of UL and the AAI (an EASA Part 147 organisation) brings together academic and regulatory bodies in delivering this module. Director of the AAI, Caoimhe O’Donnell described the partnership as exciting saying, “Atlantic Aviation Group’s Design Engineering organisation identified a gap in the market for a dedicated programme that would provide for the skills and knowledge to perform the role of a design engineer in the industry. We are delighted and excited to partner with UL to deliver this specialised module for Aviation professionals and graduates.”

marno21

View from the cabin of a training circuit at Shannon

https://twitter.com/pilotcharlotte/status/971428310256373771

MarkR

Armed incident exercise at Shannon Airport. Very cool pictures (I thought anyway)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1844143422322587.1073741908.240371209366491&type=1&l=d6272085c6

Johnboy1951

MarkR wrote: »

Armed incident exercise at Shannon Airport. Very cool pictures (I thought anyway)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1844143422322587.1073741908.240371209366491&type=1&l=d6272085c6

Comment:

It was a well run, organised and realistic event.

I wondered how they knew it was realistic ......

MarkR

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Comment:


I wondered how they knew it was realistic ......

Someone pooped their pants?

Brennans Row

The UK Airport Provisional Statistics for January have been updated.

The missing numbers for Birmingham are now released.

JCX BXC

Today signifies the start of the summer season. Today Palma de Majorca resumes for the summer and over the next few days extra summer frequencies and routes will come into play.

This morning also marks Norwegians increase in capacity on their services. There was 5 scheduled passenger Transatlantic arrivals this morning, 2 Aer Lingus, 2 Norwegian and 1 United. That's more than I ever recall at this time of year since the Shannon Stopover ended.

Shn99

Today’s and tomorrow’s 135 to Boston will be op by a Titan 767 as a 757 is needed in DUB for PHL

OfTheMarsWongs

Have Norwegian bookend for SNN —> Boston during the summer.

Got an email saying:

“You’ll be flying a brand new Boeing 737 MAX – same size and quality as on our European flights.”

They then proceeded to tell me to bring a movie on my tablet.

Do the Boeing 737 Max out of SNN not have back of seat inflight displays?

JCX BXC

OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »

Do the Boeing 737 Max out of SNN not have back of seat inflight displays?

No, they don't.

Also, I think you mean Shannon-Providence.

OfTheMarsWongs

JCX BXC wrote: »

No, they don't.

Also, I think you mean Shannon-Providence.

I do. TF Green is actually the same travel time for me as Logan would be to my final destination in Boston area.

mdmix

OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »

Have Norwegian bookend for SNN —> Boston during the summer.

Got an email saying:

“You’ll be flying a brand new Boeing 737 MAX – same size and quality as on our European flights.”

They then proceeded to tell me to bring a movie on my tablet.

Do the Boeing 737 Max out of SNN not have back of seat inflight displays?

no seatback display but they have wifi on board. I flew Shannon to Stewart a while back, they had in flight entertainment available via your personal device over wifi. unfortunately nobody could connect not the way over so it is probably best to be prepared. no problems on the way back

testicles

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OfTheMarsWongs

testicles wrote: »

You are aware why your flight was so cheap? You know you're not getting any free grub either?

You are aware there are three ticket types? LowFare+ and Flex include a meal.

testicles

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Shn99

185/189 on the inaugural SNN-REU, 25/189 on REU-SNN

Shn99

Are the SWF & PVD increases summer only?

JCX BXC

Shn99 wrote: »

Are the SWF & PVD increases summer only?

Yet to be confirmed.

highlydebased

Work now happening on arrival hall bar and restaurant.

I also imagine they'll do the baggage hall revamp right in the middle of summer......

RocketRaccoon

highlydebased wrote: »

Work now happening on arrival hall bar and restaurant.

I also imagine they'll do the baggage hall revamp right in the middle of summer......

It wouldn't be Shannon if they didn't insist on doing works at the height of summer.

Shn99

Thanks, Have done out an estimate of seats gained and lost for 2018. (?) indicated a rough estimate. All seats are rounded to the nearest thousand.

Seats Gained:
Bristol: 17,000(17May-25Oct)
Liverpool:23,000(19May-25thOct)
Philadeplhia:10,000(Begins a month earlier(04Apr))
Manchester:16,000(2x additional flights a week (22May-24Oct))
Provedince & Newburgh: 81,000(New for Jan-March, 7X flights/wk End of march-July 1st. 3x new flights July-October)
Toronto:23,000(2June-8October)
TOTAL:170,000

Seats Lost:
Newark:34,000(January-11March,October 27th-25th November)
Zurich:1,000(?)(Cut by around a month, dont have exact dates)
Stockholm:4,000(August-October
Berlin SXF:9,000(Jan-March)
NewYork JFK: 7,000(Aircraft cut from 767-757)
French Charters: 2,000(?)(Ran during the summer months, dates and flights were all over the place)
Chicago: 35,000(End of May-Beginning of October
TOTAL:92,000

Expected gain for 2018 is around 78,000 providing all bums are on seats.(1,829,500)

Seats for the new Barcelona service between March and October were not counted as it was a direct replacement to SXF, Seats for the norwegian routes are calculated providing they do not increase during the winter. If they do, that will add 21,000 seats to this years programme bringing this years expected gain to 99,000(ish). Also expect Lufthansa figures to rise this year. Bookings looking good with 1 or 2 flights already sold out in May. Feel free to point out any inconsistencies in these stats if any arise.

JCX BXC

Ryanair summer seasonal peaks:

Lanzarote 2nd flight running a full season (Ran JUN-SEP last year) , Alicantes extra gains a month, however Malaga loses it's 2 extra rotations for June and July. Overall it's a loss.

Shn99

As already mentioned work has commenced on the new bar in the arrival hall, named JJ Ruddles. Pics below. Starbucks building also finished just needs to be fitted out.

Comhrá

This evening's EI 923 Lanzarote - Shannon flight was cancelled. Anyone know a reason?

marno21

Comhra wrote: »

This evening's EI 923 Lanzarote - Shannon flight was cancelled. Anyone know a reason?

Seems to have changed, EIN923 is airborne now. ETA at Shannon is 01:06

Brennans Row

In Memoriam: David Hope, pioneer of duty free (Moodie Davitt Report)

See a devoted chapter to his career in a 2007 book, The World Rovers.

Shn99

Looks like PVD is being cut over the winter months unless its a mistake..

https://ibb.co/i3DBx7

JCX BXC

Shn99 wrote: »

Looks like PVD is being cut over the winter months unless its a mistake..

https://ibb.co/i3DBx7

Schedules not confirmed either way. Take no notice!