Lets see how long that lasts when FR also add that route and undercut Vueling until the pull the route. They've already seen Easyjet and Wizzair out of the Irish low cost market, you can almost guarantee they'll use the same tactic here.
Cork Paris with vueling following on from the Ryanair news. Cork looks like it will make a quick recovery.
Shannon will need more then Ryanair servicing European routes I think
😂😂 lol.
It was a sign 😂😂,It doesnt want you going anywhere😛
Sorry looked like routes were off sale. But looks like it was a glitch. There back now
Aer Lingus on the plus side look to be keeping LHR on. Seems to be operated daily until February with the NEO. From February frequency starts to increase. its 3 daily from 27 March
200k seats from 19.99 ?? Manchester is only one showing now
Does anyone no what’s happening with Ryanair? All flights from SNN have been removed from sale?
Flew Ryanair to Lanzarote ex Snn recently.
Airport is a joy to use. It's fairly quiet still, but is friendly and simply crying out for more flights. Ryanair were fine btw. Flights were full but took off and arrived ahead of schedule. Even the onboard fanfare wasn't too bad.
Parking is expensive however with Park4Less closed, so we all got lifts to and from the airport instead.
Skyports obtains Light UAS Operator Certificate (Clare Herald)
Skyports, the world-leading operator of cargo drone deliveries and advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure, has obtained a Light UAS Operator Certificate from the Irish Aviation Authority, permitting the self-authorisation of Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone flights.
This is the first such certificate issued by an EU regulator.
Those collaborating in this venture are: Skyports, the world’s leading passenger air taxi and cargo drone vertiport provider; Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), Ireland’s first testbed for future mobility located next to Shannon Airport; Avtrain, Europe’s leading drone training and certification body; and Shannon Group’s International Aviation Services Centre, which supports and promotes one of Ireland’s largest aviation clusters located at Shannon.
See also previous post #6988
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Ambitious drone vertiport plans for Shannon (Clare Herald – May 2021)
How a five-day business course changed a life (Financial Times – May 2017)
Pádraig Ó Céidigh has a thing about rabbits — the metaphorical kind.
“You cannot chase two of them at once,” he says, while admitting he has spent much of his life and career “chasing absolutely loads — often other people’s as well as my own”.
A serial entrepreneur, politician, solicitor and former teacher, Ó Céidigh is best known as the former owner of Aer Arann, the Irish airline that almost went bust in 2010 amid sky-high fuel costs and following a lengthy price war with Ryanair.
He left in 2012 after helping to steer the business out of examinership — the Irish version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. What followed was an appointment to Ireland’s upper house, the Senate, and a high-profile role leading a committee that reported in April on the emotive issue of whether Irish households should pay for excessive water use. In his spare time, he is buying up nursing homes.
For Ó Céidigh, however, this portfolio of roles represents a significant concentration of focus compared with what he was doing several years ago.
A heart attack in 2012, during which he says “my heart stopped and I truly went over to the other side”, was partly the result of overwork. Yet after recovering, he quickly stacked up community and corporate commitments that were “all over the place”, he says, ranging from a job on Ireland’s tourism board to seats on the boards of Ireland’s national sea fishing body and state broadcaster RTE.
He was clocking 90-hour working weeks when salvation came in the unlikely form of yet another job offer — this time to develop a leadership course for YPO, the global chief executives’ association. As was his habit, he said “yes, that would be interesting”, he explains.
To understand what he would need to do, he enrolled on the High Performance Leadership programme at IMD, the Swiss business school. He says the experience, although it lasted just five and a half days, was to change his life.
He gained “a deeper perspective on my life and who I am and what I am about”. The few days were pivotal, Ó Céidigh says, because as a result “I am more focused.”
After the course in 2015, he quit his tourism role, the fishing board, RTE and multiple other commitments. The jobs were too numerous for him to achieve much, he says, adding: “You cannot make a difference if you are chasing too many rabbits.”
When he received a phone call one Friday night last November from Simon Coveney, minister for housing, planning, community and local government, who invited him to chair the Oireachtas (parliament) committee on water charges, he signed up in the knowledge he could “concentrate primarily on this role and do my absolute best to get it right”.
The programme, he explains, was not the usual business school fare of “case studies about Sir Alex Ferguson or Elon Musk”. Ó Céidigh, whose experience bringing Aer Arann back from the brink is in fact a case study for Harvard Business School students, found the IMD experience more about talking than textbooks. “You are your own case study,” he says.
Before the course, he says, he had to identify his three biggest successes in life and his three worst failures. He also had to write out what he perceived as his timeline, recording his major developmental and turning points and how he felt at each.
In Lausanne, small groups of students discussed each other’s timelines. “We broke up into groups of six or seven people with a coach who brings everyone through [each student’s] process,” he says, “in what was basically our own mentoring group where everyone shares their life stories.”
Ó Céidigh, who taught secondary school for 10 years and also practises mindfulness on a daily basis, found the group discussion and introspection enjoyable. More traditional business leaders who spend their time directing and assessing others might find it less easy. “It is a really deep dive into yourself,” he says. “Like throwing off all your clothes and you are there, stark naked, saying ‘what am I made of now and who do I want to be?’”
None of this will shock participants, however. IMD’s course brochure says it involves “self-awareness and ‘mind’s eye’ exercises”.
Something else Ó Céidigh learnt to do on the IMD course was to identify what he calls his “secure base”, which he says could be “your family, the key people around you, while there are also people that are destabilising”.
“IMD gets you to look at that in both your personal and your professional life,” he continues. “Both are totally interactive, you see. It is all integrated.”
Last year, Ó Céidigh attended a second short course at IMD, led by the same programme director, George Kohlrieser, who besides a solid academic background is a former hostage negotiator. “We were in the mountains in Switzerland and took over a smallish family hotel there,” he says of the second course — IMD’s Advanced High Performance Leadership programme. “We walked the mountainside and had one-on-one reflective time and one-on-one coaching.”
After his water committee job, Ó Céidigh says, he will return to acquiring care homes and running Aer Arann Islands, a small airline he owns 100 per cent of, which was formerly part of Aer Arann group. He is convinced what he learnt at IMD will make him a better manager of the 300 staff he oversees at his businesses because he will now have more focus.
He says of running Aer Arann: “I was on top of everything and everyone came to me with their issue. They would circumvent delegation and come to me and I would try and help them with things like mortgages and loans,” he says. “Someone once went through a separation and I helped her get a solicitor.” He had, he says, “created that situation where you allow yourself to run after other people’s rabbits”.
Now, he says, he will help staff identify and nurture their own “secure base”. This, he believes could be a crucial management tool — boosting recruitment, retention and productivity.
“I will be trying to strengthen the base in the company so that people are actively part of the growth rather than passively part of it, rather than coming in doing their job and going home. I want them to understand they should contribute to the company because it is part of their own secure, stable base.”
As for the rabbits, he is determined to let them scamper away. “If your focus is too big and too dispersed, you miss things,” he says. “I need to be more into keeping that big picture perspective and now I think I can.”
So how did a few days at IMD’s Lausanne campus help the overworked and under-focused Ó Céidigh overhaul his work and personal life? It was due to the elements of “psychotherapy and psychology”, he says. “The IMD course helped me dig deep into myself and ask myself what is important to me and what I want to achieve.”
His previous experience in the aviation sector wouldn't exactly amount to a ringing endorsement of his credentials for this position in my opinion...
Would not expect much from him.
Six West’s new office has opened at Shannon Free Zone on the Shannon Group campus (Six West)
Six West joins more than 80 firms in Ireland’s largest aerospace and aviation cluster which represents the industry’s entire value chain, with everything from aircraft leasing, maintenance and recycling to component manufacture, parts repair and business aviation.
Matthew Gee, Six West’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “We are delighted to join this dynamic aviation community. Our presence in the home of aircraft leasing gives us a strong base to deliver the same high level of services to local aircraft lessors, banks, airlines and owners.
He seems to have the right business experience for the job.
The airport needs to focus agressively on getting all its lost business restored due to Covid.
Pity Aer Lingus couldnt give commitment :/
American Airlines has announced it's return to Shannon from May 6, 2022 with a daily service to Philadelphia using a Boeing 787.
United are also set for return with services to Newark resuming some time in March. No news about Delta so far.
Question for the folks who spotted the changes to Ryanair schedule, I didn't see it advertised by Ryanair on any of their channels. It was useful to family members I have in Edinburgh and who were looking at October. How can one be notified of airline schedules aside from a very useful for rum like this?
A Bit of action today Folks
https://www.clare.fm/featured-2/shannon-runway-closed-plane-burst-tyre-landing/?fbclid=IwAR1hHC782rTXxpAWOgLGeSim8s1qB9JuxpOZRrDrvihPIi5t9N1PqxFo-Ds
Yeah...they put it up today....🙄
Extra STN flights on til end of October too
Ryanair have bought the start date for SNN EDI forward to 27th of Sept. They have also added and extra weekly flight to PMI, FAO & AGP for October.
A link to information regarding the closure is the first thing I can see when going to their homepage.
I defy anyone to look up cork airport website and find any information on its 10 week closure! There is no info on departures or arrivals because of a technical hitch.......yeah cos there's about a dozen track machines digging up the runway! Ha ha. I mean wtf, spending 40 million on upgrades and nobody thought to update the website.....unbelievable.
Yup, that's very true. I never once considered using Cork instead of Shannon since the LHR flights were axed. Much easier to jump on the M18 / M6 / M4 / M50 / M1 ;)
Sure the road to Cork is as bad in both directions. TBF most people in the midwest would pick Dublin over Cork if they couldn't fly from Shannon. Not only is the road to cork the worst primary road in the country, you also have to get around the city once you get there.
Sorry? Never said any such thing. Shannon is my local airport, I’ve lived in Shannon or near Shannon most of my life, I have cousins born and bred there , I know a few people who work there and I’d dearly love to see it doing well and having loads of flights etc as I travel very frequently.
What I don’t like is ridiculous childish arguments about Shannon not needing Aer Lingus and how Ryan Air are the saviours of Shannon etc. I’m also a pragmatist who’s pointing out the obvious. If I lived in Cork would I drive the god awful donkey track from Cork to Shannon to fly at a pretty terrible time of the day OR, would I drive on a motorway to Dublin where I’d have my choice of flight times? That’s a question, not some dig at Shannon.
Stop the weird fanboy stuff and start looking at Shannon for what it is and apply some critical thinking to what goes on there would be my humble advise. I simply won’t engage with any more of this black and white ‘you’re either with us or against us’ stuff. I’m interested in having an adult debate about the airport not cheerleading an anti Aer Lingus point of view.
It probably is more convenient for some to head up the motorway to DUB. People are more aware of flights from DUB as well.
why do you hate shannon airport so much ?? your always on about how other 2 are better
Good point. Id take the trip to DUB over the N20.
Would imagine a lot of the cork people went via Dublin? If you had choice of driving to Shannon from Cork or Dublin on the motorway which would you pick? That’s just my guess though!
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