Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

You get the impression it flies daily when inputting the dates. They need to change their website and fade out not applicable days.

Any idea what weekly scheduled departures looked like in December 2019?

December 2022 could be an increase?

I suppose it depends on the weather which way they land, maybe they have a rotation too, in saying that they still land both directions.

Ministers welcome EU funding for transport projects in Ireland (Dept of Transport)

€3.4 million has been granted towards the creation of a dedicated unmanned aerial vehicle testing and vertiport facility at the Future Mobility Campus in Shannon.

Digital Skies cleared for take-off (Clare Herald)

A European consortium coordinated by Shannon-based Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI) in Shannon has been approved by the EU to develop a ‘Digital Sky Demonstrator’, for aerial Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) systems.

The research project, known as ‘EALU-AER’, will see FMCI and its consortium partners conduct engineering work at the FMCI facility to develop, deploy and optimise Europe’s unmanned flight ecosystem.

The three-year project involves Irish and European partners including Shannon Group, the Irish Aviation Authority, Collins Aerospace (Ireland and France), Dublin-based Avtrain, and Deepblue in Italy.

Work will be based at FMCI’s Advanced Aerial Mobility Research Test and Development Facilities at Shannon, but will include a network of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) routes across Ireland.

It's OK but nothing special, if it's busy you can be waiting for ages for food although the bar service is usually good.

It's absolutely standard in most airports to tender out food service.

Dublin did a 10 year deal in 2019. I think select service partners won it. SSP would be one of the biggest in the world.

Usually it's large international operations that win and they tend to bring quite a bland offering of bland international food names - burger joint, pizza joint, overpriced coffee joint.

The incumbents can have an advantage and may be seen as favourites to win another term.

In reality it's not news, it's just a standard practice.

No idea, never used them

My own comment would be breakfast is a decent job.

Dinner can be hit and miss.

Saw this comment on twitter from a golf commentator, not sure of accuracy

https://twitter.com/distewart79/status/1543676464230547458?t=bsBHKmMHVaoFDgg-WiFwNQ&s=19

The "cafe" downstairs stays open til 3 during the school year to cater for the students at the catering college across the road. It's a joke.

The Sunday night Ryanair Edinburgh flight is really badly timed with all the delays around Europe this summer. I was looking at it as a possible route for a trip later this month but I see last night Ryanair had delays with the Edinburgh based fleet and just cancelled it late in the evening - I'm guessing maybe their crews had just run out of hours?

A late flight on Sunday night would normally be a positive thing to maximise a weekend trip but probably safer to give late night short hops like that one a miss this year.

TFS appears up to twice to week for winter in addition to previous increases mentioned here.

I also see FAO has a rotation on Fri Nov 4 - might be a midterm thing but it's at different timings to prev Fridays which could be an indication about that route staying

Unfortunately the lack of decent flights and not ideal days/times kills Shannon for so much people. Not a case of blindly supporting/not supporting Shannon when they aren’t flying where people want etc.