Actually I only highlight them when they were here.
The Shannon Spotting Thread in the Aviation Forum would often announce their arrival.
The only way is to either work in the airport with a company who handles them or know someone who does.
Either that or there is a Facebook group for spotters in Shannon which would have knowledgable people will sometimes give a heads up if there is one on the way.
How do you know in advance when the Antonovs are coming in?
Common Diversion Airport
Transatlantic jet diverts to Shannon (Clare Herald)
A transatlantic jet has made an unscheduled landing at Shannon Airport this afternoon after the crew declared an emergency off the north coast of Ireland.
United Airlines flight UA-47 was travelling from Frankfurt, Germany to Houston, Texas in the US at the time.
The Boeing 787-900 jet was about 180 kms northwest of Donegal at around 2.50pm when the crew declared a medical emergency and requested clearance to divert to Shannon. There were 246 passengers and crew on board.
Freight
There were four Anotovs 124 in Shannon the last few days.
AN-124-100 UR-82029
AN-124-100 RA-82078
AN-124-100 UR-82008
AN-124-100 UR-82007
Shannon Free Zone
Up to 100 new jobs to be created in Shannon with new manufacturing facility (Irish Times)
Up to 100 new jobs are to be created in Co Clare on the back of a new multi-million euro investment by OLED Material Manufacturing and PPG.
The two companies are jointly establishing a new manufacturing site in Shannon for the production of materials used in solid-state lighting applications.
The new facility is to be located at what was the former Avara pharmaceuticals plant in the Shannon Industrial Estate with renovations and regulatory approvals expected to be competed in the next 12 months. Operations are expected to commence in 2022.
Canal Office Block
Draft for a 60,000 sq ft of modernised office space available for pre-let in the Shannon Free Zone business park.
Circled a few times before dirverting, so Cork was probably fogbound again.
The DHL (Condor) flight from Leipzig to Cork was diverted to Shannon this morning.
Anyone know why?
New Gran Canaria flight from Shannon (Clare Herald)
Shannon Airport has welcomed the announcement by Ryanair of a new service to Gran Canaria (Las Palmas).
It’s the third new route announced by Ryanair from the Mid-West airport and will bring to 17 the number of routes operated by the carrier from Shannon.
The new service starts on 7th August and will operate once a week until the end of October.
Shannon - Commercial Movements (IAA)
https://www.iaa.ie/who-we-are/flight-statistics/monthly-review
The 2021 figures from March onwards are compared with the corresponding month in 2019.
JamesBond2010 wrote: » Your Q & Ans reminds me of this joke :D:D
Jeremy Beagle wrote: » Me too! Where are you off to?
Henry Ford III wrote: » I've booked a flight ex SNN in September. Living on the edge.
RocketRaccoon wrote: » They got a grant for a few million so putting it to use renovating the screening area
Avgeek2101 wrote: » Does anyone know whats happening to the security area in SNN? Ive seen pictures of the current area stripped out and refloored.
Deagol wrote: » I would say poorly worded if you where trying to be bloody minded or pedantic
AnRothar wrote: » It's a poorly worded post that creates an impression of a resurrected version of the hated Shannon stopover. Airplane arrives from point A. Drops passenger's. Aircraft then flies to point B.
Deagol wrote: » That’s what was happening in 2019 and early 2020... A321 NEO was coming from JFK, stopping in Shannon to drop off passengers and collect passengers and then fly to LHR.
RocketRaccoon wrote: » You got SNN-LHR. That flight had zero to do with the incoming JFK other than it used the same aircraft.
Deagol wrote: » Err... sorry. I was on several of the flights. In fact I was on the very first one as I got upgraded to a business class seat.