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Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Clareman

This thread is to discuss all things Shannon Airport related.

Warning, any back biting, regional nonsense, trolling, baiting or back seat modding will lead to bans.

It's also important to remember than that this thread is in a regional forum, not the Aviation forum, if you want to get into details on Aviation, go to that forum. Finally, this is the Clare forum, there will be a bias towards Clare in here, so expect folk to want to defend their county .

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clintondaly

Leaving after maintenance in LHT I would imagine

hobie14

Virgin 787 just departing SNN for LHR ...... ?

Brennans Row

The UK Airport Provisional Statistics for February are out.

hobie14

Brennans Row wrote: »

Interesting photo of an Airbus Beluga in Shannon yesterday for rejected takeoff (RTO) tests.

What's also to be seen in the background, is that the steel girders are starting to go up for the new hangar.

It flew over me but couldn't see it due cloud level

... sounded interesting so checked it on Fr24 ...

Brennans Row

Interesting photo of an Airbus Beluga in Shannon yesterday for rejected takeoff (RTO) tests.

What's also to be seen in the background, is that the steel girders are starting to go up for the new hangar.

ISOP

MusSpo13 wrote: »

I will be going through pre clearance in Shannon next week and I’m just wondering in general how long does this take?

15-20 minutes at the most and that when it is busy, usually it is around 5-10 minutes

JCX BXC

Holding at Dublin.

Deagol

Today (EK163, April 8th) Emirates Dubai-Dublin flight diverted to SNN. Not found reason why yet though.

Shn99

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

You'd wonder whether year round pre-clearance at Shannon will continue to be viable given the drop off in transatlantic flights in winter. Wouldn't be surprised to see it reduced to a summer service at some point.

Bizjets are able to use it too

Cosmo Kramer

You'd wonder whether year round pre-clearance at Shannon will continue to be viable given the drop off in transatlantic flights in winter. Wouldn't be surprised to see it reduced to a summer service at some point.

tringle

MusSpo13 wrote: »

I will be going through pre clearance in Shannon next week and I’m just wondering in general how long does this take?

5 minutes

Henry Ford III

MusSpo13 wrote: »

I will be going through pre clearance in Shannon next week and I’m just wondering in general how long does this take?

I went from the car park to the departure gate for a transatlantic flight once in under 20 mins.

Tacklebox

Stanford wrote: »

Bit like a bridesmaid at a wedding, always catches the bouquet but never lands the groom.......................a safe pair of hands

Exactly,and she'll then go back to her regular position afterwards.

Those CEO job's in the Shannon group are usually on a few years contract, so to leave a secure job for a few years on top isn't exactly smart.

She's quite good at what she does,and I can't see her going to do anything to loose her current secure position.

JCX BXC

marno21 wrote: »

Aer Lingus hardly ran the JFK-SNN flight to Dublin directly to save on the SNN-DUB positioning flight?

It was never destined to Shannon, so hence wasn't a diversion like FR24 implied.

marno21

Brennans Row wrote: »

British Airways flight to New York is also cancelled today.

Why did the Aer Lingus EI-CJX return leg divert to Dublin?

Strange because the Norwegian return leg to New York is cancelled.

So where does this aircraft EI-FJO go to after departing Shannon?

EI-FJO routed to LGW after departing SNN and is now running ops on Norwegian's short haul European network. It was running ops in North America so they made use of the NA-Europe positioning flight by running the SWF-SNN flight.

Aer Lingus hardly ran the JFK-SNN flight to Dublin directly to save on the SNN-DUB positioning flight?

Stanford

Tacklebox wrote: »

Mary Considine will stand in while they await candidates for the new position.

She stood in the last time too.

She's quite good at her job and has foresight and a great listener.

Bit like a bridesmaid at a wedding, always catches the bouquet but never lands the groom.......................a safe pair of hands

MusSpo13

I will be going through pre clearance in Shannon next week and I’m just wondering in general how long does this take?

Brennans Row

British Airways flight to New York is also cancelled today.

JCX BXC wrote: »

JFK cancelled by Aer Lingus again, second day in a row.

Why did the Aer Lingus EI-CJX return leg divert to Dublin?

JCX BXC wrote: »

I note Norwegian are operating the inbound flight from Stewart on a 737-800NG this morning. That'll be it for the week afaik.

Strange because the Norwegian return leg to New York is cancelled.

So where does this aircraft EI-FJO go to after departing Shannon?

hobie14

JCX BXC wrote: »

JFK cancelled by Aer Lingus again, second day in a row.

I note Norwegian are operating the inbound flight from Stewart on a 737-800NG this morning. That'll be it for the week afaik.

Yes .... I thought I saw a Norwegian take off a few minutes ago .....9.50 am

JCX BXC

JFK cancelled by Aer Lingus again, second day in a row.

I note Norwegian are operating the inbound flight from Stewart on a 737-800NG this morning. That'll be it for the week afaik.

marno21

Air Canada have suspended the 737 MAX until July so I'd imagine that's the reason rather than passenger numbers. Perhaps they may be redirected via LHR or one of the US routes.

JCX BXC

Shn99 wrote: »

Not a good year for passenger numbers, AC to Toronto has been taken off sale for June resuming July 3rd. When did EI to JFK return last year? BOS isn’t returning until April 18th

Always traditionally started just before St.Patricks day. It's amazing it's delayed so late when Boston seemed to be perfectly fine when it ran uninterrupted from 2013-2018.

Pity about Toronto, not surprising given the current situation regarding the 737-MAX.

Shn99

Not a good year for passenger numbers, AC to Toronto has been taken off sale for June resuming July 3rd. When did EI to JFK return last year? BOS isn’t returning until April 18th

JCX BXC

I don't think Shannon has ever had as bad a transatlantic offering as it's had this March. (Barring perhaps ~1970's and perhaps a year or two around the crash)

Norwegian - Nothing this winter, 4pw last winter. (Suspended for foreseeable future)

Aer Lingus - New York on reduced timetable, Boston hasn't ran, last year they ran Boston on a reduced timetable for half the month and full for the rest of the month, and they ran half a month of New York too.

United: Operated a partial month compared to full month last year.

A Sunday at this time of the year would have yielded 4 transatlantic services, today there is only one.

Tacklebox

Clareman wrote: »

Mary Considine is a brilliant business person with loads of expierence, I think she should be given the role full time, can't be any worse than someone that just comes in for a couple of years.

Mary Considine will stand in while they await candidates for the new position.

She stood in the last time too.

She's quite good at her job and has foresight and a great listener.

mdmix

Clareman wrote: »

Mary Considine is a brilliant business person with loads of expierence, I think she should be given the role full time, can't be any worse than someone that just comes in for a couple of years.

i think the risk of promoting from within, even if that person has the talent and experience, is that you can lose out on new business links. its probably no coincidence the last CEO came from the UK and saw a decent increase in capacity to the UK in his time. hopefully the shannon group can attract the right kind of candidate from europe.

Clareman

Mary Considine is a brilliant business person with loads of expierence, I think she should be given the role full time, can't be any worse than someone that just comes in for a couple of years.

JCX BXC

Passenger numbers hit 1.86m?

Tacklebox

Brennans Row wrote: »

Matthew Thomas departing role as Shannon Group CEO (Clare Echo)

Matthew Thomas is to step down as CEO of Shannon Group plc to take up the same position at the Ports of Jersey.

South African native Thomas departs in June to fly to New Jersey where he will be responsible for the airport, harbour, marina and coastguard under the Ports of Jersey banner.

May 2016 marked his appointment to Shannon following Neil Pakey’s exit. He joined from Vantage Group where he was Chief Commercial Officer and worked with the company for 8 years, during this period Matthew served as CEO of Peel Airports which included Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

In his three years at Shannon, he oversaw a €40m investment by Shannon Commercial Properties in its first phase of redevelopment of the Shannon Free Zone, occupancy rates at the industrial space are now at 94%. Passenger numbers at Shannon Airport hit 1.86m last year which marked a 6.5% increase on 2017 figures. Visitors to Shannon Heritage sites grew to 925,000 during his tenure.

Never a dull Moment at Shannon

I wonder who'll be the next fly by night CEO of the Shannon group.

Matthew was quite good at his job, it's a shame to see him go.

Obviously he's entitled to advance his career and move on.

The Shannon group could do a lot more with the region.

What I liked about Shannon development was they used to be very much into the fisheries and enhancement of the lake's and rivers,they worked in conjunction with fisheries.

The Angling tourism was huge in the 80's and 90's, lots of people came over from the continent and UK fishing, game sea and course angling.

There's definitely potential for more growth in that department.

I hope I haven't went off topic, my apologies if I have.

Brennans Row

Matthew Thomas departing role as Shannon Group CEO (Clare Echo)

Matthew Thomas is to step down as CEO of Shannon Group plc to take up the same position at the Ports of Jersey.

South African native Thomas departs in June to fly to New Jersey where he will be responsible for the airport, harbour, marina and coastguard under the Ports of Jersey banner.

May 2016 marked his appointment to Shannon following Neil Pakey’s exit. He joined from Vantage Group where he was Chief Commercial Officer and worked with the company for 8 years, during this period Matthew served as CEO of Peel Airports which included Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

In his three years at Shannon, he oversaw a €40m investment by Shannon Commercial Properties in its first phase of redevelopment of the Shannon Free Zone, occupancy rates at the industrial space are now at 94%. Passenger numbers at Shannon Airport hit 1.86m last year which marked a 6.5% increase on 2017 figures. Visitors to Shannon Heritage sites grew to 925,000 during his tenure.

Never a dull Moment at Shannon