Prince William wrote: » I wonder how many passengers were on those flights to Stockholm that only lasted 3 months?
mdmix wrote: » 1.86 million passengers, no breakdown of how many transit though.https://www.shannonairport.ie/passengers/news-media/latest-news/2019/shannon-group’s-boost-to-economy-as-its-three-comp/
Shn99 wrote: » Not expecting much if any growth for 2019
RocketRaccoon wrote: » No chance of growth this year, 0%.
Shn99 wrote: » Shame really, wonder how the management will dress the figures up this time next year.. Kuwait is a huge loss, Ryanair haven’t really grow. when you factor in the loss of LPL and reduction in MAN. Also lots of uncertainty regarding the future of Norwegians operation, internal email has revealed that the DUB base will be reduced to 1 aircraft from September, with SWF and PVD closing bases altogether
hondabanner wrote: » how is kuwait a big loss??
RocketRaccoon wrote: » On average 250 passengers a day, 7 days a week. Close to 40 jobs if not more lost due to it not transiting through anymore.
jasper100 wrote: » 40 jobs is not a huge loss. Plenty of work out there at the moment. Kuwait was only a temporary arrangement anyway, and brought no significant revenue to the wider economy. It inflated overall passenger numbers and helped with paying overheads but losing an American tourist flight for a summer would hit the wider local a lot more. And thats why the airport is there.
branie2 wrote: » With which airline?
Shn99 wrote: » Are you going to tell that to the families of the 40 made redundant? It will have a significant effect on the restaurants ect airside as they’ve lost 250 passengers a day. 20 rooms in the Absolute Hotel in limerick were also booked every night for crew. Ludacrious statement
jasper100 wrote: » In the grand scheme of things its a drop in the ocean, nothing "huge" about it. Anybody employed by it would have known it was a short term gig, so save us the violins about telling the families etc. Yes it will impact the restaurant and the absolute hotel, but both would have known it was coming to an end at some stage, sooner rather than later.
road_high wrote: » I’ve only ever flown in or out of Shannon as living in Kilkenny Dublin is the default airport- but I’ve always been fascinated by Shannon and would love to see it doing well- the drop in traffic figures is very stark. Wasn’t it seeing 3 plus million passengers or so during the peak of the boom? Why haven’t these recovered (only half that it seems still) to those levels at all? I thought it had autonomy on landing fees and could compete better for business?
Shn99 wrote: » Shannon stopover has ended
road_high wrote: » Did that not end way before then though? I thought that ended in the 90s?
Shn99 wrote: » Back around then the Shannon stopover was still in place, was finished completely around 2011/12 afaik
JCX BXC wrote: » The Shannon stopover finished completely in 2008.
Shn99 wrote: » From what I’ve read it sounds like Kuwait Airways got the approval the day before and just pulled out of SNN the next day, however I’m open to correction on this. This is an extract from The Clare Herald “One airport worker said: “We don’t know, we just don’t know. We are waiting to hear but we hope there will be enough work to tie us over until the start of the summer scheduled in March. We’ll have to wait and see.” Doesn’t sounds like someone who knew their job was temporary, again open to correction on this..
RocketRaccoon wrote: » Staff in the airport found out about 10/15 minutes before the flight landed. They were told to inform the crew to stay on board and continue to JFK as passengers as there would be no flight for them to work the following day. The information was passed via a text message or voice message.
road_high wrote: » Could passengers buy a ticket and get on/off at Shannon?
jasper100 wrote: » Still doesn't make it a "huge" loss though. Everybody knew it was going to happen at sooner rather than later. Doesn't really matter how the information was relayed.
Shn99 wrote: » So it doesn’t matter that employees were told 15 minutes before the flight landed that today would potentially be their last day? Rubbish.
Clareman wrote: » I don't think they were being told it was their last day I think it was just that the flight wouldn't be stopping in Shannon anymore
