Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Brennans Row

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner and a delegation of US Congress members stopped over in Shannon on Saturday.

They managed a trip to the Cliffs of Moher during US Independence Day. (Clare Herald)

mitresize5

I was one of those 77.

Last time I spoke to one of the guys there he mentioned 20 something in Shannon. The disaster that was the duty free at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow finished the Shannon operation as ARI has now effectively pulled out of Russia as a result

All new positions or positions being back filled by people leaving are being recruited for Dublin. The redundancy package is still available and all the decisions are based made in Dublin.

Brennans Row

Thanks for the feedback.

So it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the ARI staff are let go or are moved to Dublin.

Why was the Duty Free in Sheremetyevo a disaster, especially when ARI collected €15 million from them in 2013?

Brennans Row

The CSO statistics for April are out.

• 2015 Total North American Passengers to date (Jan—Apr) 61,984
• 2014 Total North American Passengers to date (Jan—Apr) 60,004

To date we have a slight overall increase of 1,984 or +3,3%

As expected, the switching of the Boston aircraft from Shannon to Dublin for the first 8 days of April (Easter) contributed in a -30% drop on that route.

mitresize5

Brennans Row wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback.

So it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the ARI staff are let go or are moved to Dublin.

Why was the Duty Free in Sheremetyevo a disaster, especially when ARI collected €15 million from them in 2013?

Haha. Hadn't realised Jack had put such a spin on it.

ARI ploughed 15 million into developing the duty free offering in the then new terminal 3 Only to then not be able to get a liquor licence from the Russian government at the behest of the local losing tender. The whole business was completely focused on T3 to the detriment of all the other Russian businesses. In other words all the eggs went into one basket.

I wouldn't blame anyone in ARI to be honest. I've worked with other Russian companies subsequently and have to say I've never come across a more corrupt society. Everyone from the street cop's to government ministers. It's become impossible to do legitimate business there.

I'm happy that they got something back out of it. Although that 15 million obviously included the businesses at Domodevado airport which was probably worth that alone.

TBH they are definitely better out of Russia

Edit: they are definitely moving to a Dublin based operation but I don't think there will be compulsory redundancies

Brennans Row

mitresize5 wrote: »

Edit: they are definitely moving to a Dublin based operation but I don't think there will be compulsory redundancies

I would imagine ARI’s payroll at Shannon would have been €3 to €4 million per year?

Of course the transfer of these jobs to the Dublin would be in the best national interest. :rolleyes:

Brennans Row

Shannon is beefing up its security by installing 166 CCTV cameras (Office of Government Procurement).

Brennans Row

Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York diverting to Shannon.

**** Update ****

Flight diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

Turkish Airlines flight TK-3 was travelling from Istanbul to New York and was about 250 kilometres off the Irish coast when the crew turned around and diverted to Shannon.

The Airbus A300-300 jet, with 256 passengers and crew, landed at 10.59am and was met by airport fire crews and HSE paramedics.

A passenger was removed to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.

The flight continued it’s journey about 90 minutes later.

Shannon757

Brennans Row wrote: »

Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York diverting to Shannon.

**** Update ****

Flight diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

Turkish Airlines flight TK-3 was travelling from Istanbul to New York and was about 250 kilometres off the Irish coast when the crew turned around and diverted to Shannon.

The Airbus A300-300 jet, with 256 passengers and crew, landed at 10.59am and was met by airport fire crews and HSE paramedics.

A passenger was removed to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.

The flight continued it’s journey about 90 minutes later.

A330-300.

Figerty

Shannon757 wrote: »

A330-300.

Got help the passenger that was move to Limerick!

JCX BXC

Figerty wrote: »

Got help the passenger that was move to Limerick!

God help the passenger that chose the non-existant A300-300.

Figerty

Carnacalla wrote: »

God help the passenger that chose the non-existant A300-300.

Better chance of getting an A300-300 than a bed in Limerick..

Brennans Row

AerCap creates 50 new jobs in Shannon (Clare Herald)

Aviation leasing giant, AerCap has announced the creation of 100 new highly skilled jobs in Shannon and Dublin.

The positions are high end roles created across various disciplines including Sales and Marketing, Aircraft Technical, Legal, Contracts Management, Finance and Treasury, and are split evenly between Shannon and Dublin.

Further increases are expected as the company continues to expand its Irish operations which have become its commercial centre.

The investment is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland.

AerCap is the global leader in aircraft leasing with 1,300 owned and managed aircraft in its current fleet and a highly attractive portfolio of 470 high-demand, fuel-efficient aircraft on order. Its aircraft are leased to 200 customers in 90 countries.

cnoc

Shannon Airport Air Display

Will there be a dedicated entrance to the Air Show on Saturday week. If so, where.

_Tombstone_

cnoc wrote: »

Shannon Airport Air Display

Will there be a dedicated entrance to the Air Show on Saturday week. If so, where.

3 apparently, 2 for cars and 1 for pedestrians.

http://clareherald.com/2015/06/eyes-to-the-skies-for-shannon-airshow-5675/


Details on event traffic management, parking etc will be published here closer to the event.

Brennans Row

United Airlines Flight from Rome to Washington at first diverts for Shannon but then opts for Heathrow instead. (Pressurization issues).

https://twitter.com/patsyflynn/status/619860428865339392

Jhcx

Who pressured Who? United to go to Heathrow or Heathrow on United? SNN is Just as good hai
Being a team there. Most evening staff know the ua system

highlydebased

Jhcx wrote:

Who pressured Who? United to go to Heathrow or Heathrow on United? SNN is Just as good hai Being a team there. Most evening staff know the ua system

There was issues with aircraft pressurisation, not anyone putting pressure to divert somewhere ;-)

Jhcx

Ahh. Could that not been fixed in Shannon?

Jamie2k9

Jhcx wrote: »

Ahh. Could that not been fixed in Shannon?

Not sure if it re departed LHR but they would of had the option with lots of UA departures to get passengers to US without an overnight in SNN.

Figerty

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Not sure if it re departed LHR but they would of had the option with lots of UA departures to get passengers to US without an overnight in SNN.

Might also be easier to locate an alternative aircraft in LHR

Brennans Row

Airport on standby for jet emergency (Clare Herald)

Emergency services were placed on standby at Shannon Airport on Saturday for a passenger that jet declared an emergency over the Atlantic.

United Airlines flight UA-43 was en route from Rome to Washington and was about 500 kilometres off the Mayo coast when the crew declared an emergency and turned around.

The pilot had been in contact with the Irish air traffic controllers at the time and advised them of their situation and their intention to divert to Shannon.

An emergency plan was put into action at Shannon with local authority fire service crews and ambulances from several stations being alerted.

The Boeing 767-400 jet was cleared to descend from 34,000 feet to 22,000 feet after the crew confirmed they had a pressurisation issue in the passenger cabin.

The crew had also been in contact with with the airline’s operations centre and by the time they had reached a level of 22,000 feet, its understood they had resolved the issue.

Its now believed the crew was instructed by their operations centre to divert to London Heathrow instead of Shannon.

While emergency services were being scrambled at Shannon the pilot informed controllers that they wished to continue onto London’s Heathrow airport instead.

The emergency was stood down and the flight continued to London for a safe landing an hour later.

Fire crews from Shannon Town and Ennis along with emergency ambulances had been mobilised to the airport before they returned to their bases.

Brennans Row

Shannon Airport air traffic down -7.9% for June (IAA).

vkid

Is that just traffic movements or passengers? Movements would be down with EI regional pulling routes...no?

highlydebased

vkid wrote: »

Is that just traffic movements or passengers? Movements would be down with EI regional pulling routes...no?

That's just movements. I believe pax up 1% in june

Brennans Row

vkid wrote: »

Is that just traffic movements or passengers? Movements would be down with EI regional pulling routes...no?

Just traffic movements and yes the drop is due to EI regional pulling routes.

dr.fuzzenstein

Patrick O'Donovan finally got his wish:

http://utv.ie/News/2015/07/13/Shannon-Airport-assigned-wrong-county-in-Eircode-launch-40920

JCX BXC

That's disgraceful. The fact that the won't be changed is a complete shamble too!

Cookiemunster

I knew it was only a matter of time. Welcome to Limerick!!!!

cnoc

Cookiemunster wrote: »

I knew it was only a matter of time. Welcome to Limerick!!!!

Sure they might as well amalgamate Clare and Limerick senior hurlers.