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Is there a direct bus to Shannon airport?

  • 17-06-2014 10:30pm
    #1
    dafunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭


    Bus eireann do a galway-shannon airpprt route but its got a lot of stops along the way and takes almost two hours...is there a more direct bus?


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  • #2
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Not since Citylink stopped doing the service afaik.


  • #3
    biko
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    Aye, BE only afaik.


  • #4
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,506 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    It's nearly as quick to go to Dublin Airport with the direct Citylink or GoBus services than to go to Shannon with BE!


  • #5
    El_Dangeroso
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    It's utterly ridiculous that they shut down the airport and left really poor transport links to shannon. If they want shannon to succeed they should have reliable quick public transport from a big city with no airport an hour's drive away.


  • #6
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Use www.a-b.ie and put in the exact locations and relevant dates and times.

    Most departures on route 51 seem to take 1h44m


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  • #7
    Mrs OBumble
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    El_Dangeroso wrote: »
    I a big city with ....

    Which big city is that? I live in a big town, really :D


    The bus services from Galway to Shannon were cut when people stopped flying from there because Ryanair stopped flying from there.

    If the flights were re-instated, then I'm sure there are various private operators who would run a limited-stops bus-service happily enough.


  • #8
    El_Dangeroso
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Which big city is that? I live in a big town, really :D


    The bus services from Galway to Shannon were cut when people stopped flying from there because Ryanair stopped flying from there.

    If the flights were re-instated, then I'm sure there are various private operators who would run a limited-stops bus-service happily enough.

    Ryanair opened 8 new routes from Shannon in summer there, if you've ever been on the existing Shannon-Galway bus service, you'd know there's more than enough people to justify a direct service, in summer at least. And even if there wasn't, it's a vicious cycle, people don't take the bus because it's slow and infrequent. It would be in Shannon's interest to at least trial a direct service to see if it increases passenger numbers. Hell even a ryanair connected service like they do from the slightly out of town airports in other countries would do.


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