Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Davys Fits

Brennans Row wrote: »

Political clash as Lynx Shannon cargo hub plan fails to take off (Independent)

Shannon Group confirms that the planned cargo hub with the international group Lynx is not going ahead.

Well is any one surprised at this news? I been hearing about cargo hubs at SNN for 30 years or more. So much energy wasted on something that was never going to work. If SNN was a suitable location for such a hub it would have happened years ago. Will the local politicians please move on now to their next phantom project.

Brennans Row

Davys Fits wrote: »

. . . . So much energy wasted on something that was never going to work. . . .

As they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Brennans Row

Flight diverts to Shannon with ill passenger (Clare Herald)

A transatlantic jet diverted to Shannon Airport early today after a passenger suddenly fell ill.

Swiss International Airlines flight SWR-15 was about an hour south west of Ireland when the crew declared a medical emergency.

The Airbus A300-300 jet was travelling from New York’s JFK Airport to Zurich in Switzerland at the time.

JCX BXC

Brennans Row wrote: »

The Airbus A300-300 jet was travelling from New York’s JFK Airport to Zurich in Switzerland at the time.

A330-300*

Not the first time The Clare Herald has made that same mistake either.

Deagol

Anyone see the Cathay Pacific 747 cargo in Shannon today (17th)? Unusual?

Brennans Row

The CSO Statistics for September are out.

Philadelphia did very well.

highlydebased

Extra services for Xmas rush

Sat 19th
BHX 0905 SNN 1045 EI3639
SNN 1110 BHX 1245 EI3638

Weds 23rd
LHR 1740 SNN 1905 EI2383
SNN 2005 LHR 2130 EI2382

Thurs 24th
LHR 1415 SNN 1540 EI2383
SNN 1625 LHR 1750 EI2382

Mon 28th
LHR 1725 SNN 1850 EI2383
SNN 1950 LHR 2115 EI2382

Sat 2nd Jan
LHR 1005 SNN 1125 EI2383
SNN 1330 LHR 1455 EI2382

Regular early LHR flight retimed to depart SNN at 0755 on the 2nd also

Ryanair doing extra Wroclaw rotation on Jan 3, extra Krakow Jan 6, extra Warsaw 21, 28 Dec and 4 Jan.

JCX BXC

Extra Berlin and Lanzarote too.

Jamie2k9

United have taken a fairly big hit this summer, will DL going 763 to NY add further pressure>

JCX BXC

UAL are the only airline who have maintained year round transatlantic services at SNN for this century. If they stuck around at the height of competition and the height of the recession, I can't see them budging now.

Jamie2k9

Carnacalla wrote: »

UAL are the only airline who have maintained year round transatlantic services at SNN for this century. If they stuck around at the height of competition and the height of the recession, I can't see them budging now.

Comment was more about ORD its a route which shouldn't do bad as it's a good hub airport and better than may in the US.

JCX BXC

EI-CPG (An A321) on approach to SNN now, operating EI385 and EI386 today.

JCX BXC

There was PAX connecting onto New-York with Aerlingus on this mornings extra BHX service.

JCX BXC

Sunway have cancelled Izmir for 2016.

Airbus330

Carnacalla wrote: »

Sunway have cancelled Izmir for 2016.

Wonder is that due to the unrest in Turkey or the surrounding region? That route performed extremely well in the summer!

Jamie2k9

Turkey will be down ex Ireland, all Spain/Portugal next year.

JCX BXC

Pity, alot of people who don't want to go to your typical Spain and Portugal lost again. All we have is Croatia and from what I've heard its very quiet there. (Which some may like, not me personally)

highlydebased

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/terminals-in-two-of-state-s-airports-to-get-facelifts-1.2472999

Terminals in two of State’s airports to get facelifts
Work planned for Shannon Airport and Dublin Airport Terminal One ground floor

Dublin Airport Authority has hired Glenbeigh Construction to carry out work on the ground floor of its Terminal One building, part of an overall refurbishment that will cost €10 million. Photograph: Alan Betson

Terminals in two of the State’s airports are to get facelifts over the coming weeks.
Dublin Airport Authority has hired Glenbeigh Construction to carry out work on the ground floor of its Terminal One building, part of an overall refurbishment that will cost €10 million.

Meanwhile, Shannon has taken on Clare company M Fitzgibbon Contractors for renovations to the mid-western airport’s terminal building for which the local council recently granted permission.

The work in Dublin will be on the ground floor of the terminal – the arrivals area – and will take in food and drink outlets and public seating. It will also increase the commercial space available.

Shannon is carrying out a floor-to-ceiling refurbishment focused on gates one to five which includes the arrivals hall, transit lounges and the departure gate areas. The work will employ 25 to 30 people.

Dublin airport recently reported it had handled more than 23.5 million passengers in the first 11 months of 2015, effectively breaking its previous record for a single year, with December still to come.

The airport set its previous record of 23.46 million in 2008, just before the Republic headed into a long recession.
Passenger numbers are up 16 per cent so far this year. This month the airport said that 23 new routes combined with extra capacity on existing services to drive the growth.

Managing director Vincent Harrison said business from its existing airline customers grew strongly, while six new carriers joined its roster this year.

Meanwhile, passenger numbers at Shannon in November grew by 4 per cent to break the 100,000 mark.
The airport reported that more than 101,000 flew in and out of the airport during the month, compared with 97,000 during November 2014.
The airport released the figures following news that Aer Lingus Regional plans to reinstate its Shannon-Edinburgh service from March.
According to chief executive Neil Pakey, Shannon is on track for three straight years of growth since it was made independent of Dublin at the beginning of 2013.

Airbus330

.@Buseireann please take down Shannon Airport's unwanted advertisements on your buses in Cork. We have our own airport here: .@CorkAirport

jameszysull 21/12/2015. Remember this day lads ��

JCX BXC

Jealousy is an awful thing isn't it?

Airbus330

Carnacalla wrote: »

Jealousy is an awful thing isn't it?

Yeah sure is. He made some digs at Dublin as well a few weeks ago, but a bunch of people shut him up fairly lively it was kinda funny to read 😄

Jamie2k9

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/shannon-group-boss-neil-pakey-to-step-down-when-contract-expires-next-year-34308605.html

Looks like he is getting out before the happy times come to an end.......next to no routes/capacity currently on offer so numbers could dip. Same happened at LPL.

Brennans Row

Big surprise, Neil Pakey moving on just two and a half years into his job.

JCX BXC

Brennans Row wrote: »

Big surprise, Neil Pakey moving on just two and a half years into his job.

I don't share the same shock.

Hopefully we may appoint another experienced airport CEO, perhaps someone without the same fondness of LCC's as Neil?

highlydebased

Brennans Row wrote: »

Big surprise, Neil Pakey moving on just two and a half years into his job.

Well, he's leaving when the contract is up next June, a three year spin. It was only ever a three year contract, even though he could surely have opted to stay on if he wanted.

Can't say I blame him- a man of airport expertise and has to try run a commercial industrial estate and heritage stuff too along with the airport

JCX BXC

highlydebased wrote: »

Well, he's leaving when the contract is up next June, a three year spin. It was only ever a three year contract, even though he could surely have opted to stay on if he wanted.

Can't say I blame him- a man of airport expertise and has to try run a commercial industrial estate and heritage stuff too along with the airport

I thought he was only in charge of the airport?

Edit: Nope, in charge of the Shannon Group. Should they not have a separate CEO for the airport?

elastico

highlydebased wrote: »

Can't say I blame him- a man of airport expertise and has to try run a commercial industrial estate and heritage stuff too along with the airport

Next we will have a teacher running the country😜

Cosmo Kramer

A good time for him to go, he can claim credit for the easy gains but isn't waiting around to do the harder upcoming work of sustaining them over a period of time. Given that almost all of the 2015 passenger number increase happened in the first three months of the year and there has been a distinct shortage of route announcements this autumn, he presumably knows what's coming next year and has decided there's no benefit to him in staying on.

elastico

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

A good time for him to go, he can claim credit for the easy gains but isn't waiting around to do the harder upcoming work of sustaining them over a period of time. Given that almost all of the 2015 passenger number increase happened in the first three months of the year and there has been a distinct shortage of route announcements this autumn, he presumably knows what's coming next year and has decided there's no benefit to him in staying on.

Lots of cheap digs there. Maybe he just doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in a foreign country.

Cosmo Kramer

Ya, it could be anything really to be fair to him - we don't know. But looking at it from the outside the timing makes it seem a distinct possibility that he feels that there is not much more growth to be had at Shannon for the moment at least and that makes it a good time to move on. But I'm not saying that's definitely the reason, really only he would know.