Have you flown with United Airlines from Shannon to Newark/NewYork ?
What are United like and how do they compare with Aerlingus ?
It's been over 20 years since I've flown to the States.
I've flown to Chicago last year with them from Shannon,
Food was meh, much better on way back than way out, IFE was of good quality and you get free beer unlike Aer Lingus. Fairly good experience overall.
Also on United, you can send Whatsapp messages and Facebook messenger messages over their WiFi for free, that's an advantage if you're meeting someone on either side of the pond.
the only issue I’d have with UA is there flights are constantly delayed from EWR. Aer lingus are better for being on time
Yep, that's the problem all this summer. Down to the fact it is the last flight out of Newark in the evening.
Crazy stuff in news this morning from Mary considine. Basically saying Shannon has capacity and tourists going to the west are travelling to Dublin.
No airline wants to fly to Shannon. Loads of routes have been tried and tested before and dropped. Aer Lingus even operate the bare minimum from Shannon and closed the Cabin Crew base. If demand was there airlines would be flying from there.
She has a point TBF. SNN could very easily serve the entirety of the population of the M20-M18-M17 corridor north to south and as far east as Portlaoise. As easy to fly from SNN and time saved even just by elimination of the N7 & M50 portion of trip to Dublin airport make it a viable alternative IMO.
A west coast airport, well served by road and public transport connections offers a reasonably balanced alternative to a giant hub at Dublin.
Because the routes they bring in are, by and large, awful.
I know but going by previous years nothing works from Shannon. Flights are way two expensive, low frequency. So people still end up going to Dublin
I think its struggling to compete against Cork.
Rocket racoon touched on the main reason for that IMHO. Too many poor routes and even the decent ones, all too often are offered with odd dep/arr times.
SNN is still marketed as an afterthought rather than a genuine alternative.
Anyone know when Ryanair flights for next Summer from Shannon to Barcelona(Girona) will be available to book?
Case in point - RyanAir to the UK
Shannon to Birmingham - Imagine you wanted to go to the UK for the weekend.
The only flight out is at 11:50PM on a Friday from Shannon , arriving after 1AM into Birmingham Airport.
Then , to get back you have a choice of 1:40PM on Sunday or if you wait til Monday you can fly out at midday.
What about a Business Trip??
The ONLY choice is flight out at 2PM on Monday and come back at 10PM on Friday.
Liverpool for the weekend maybe for a game? - Only if you are good with flying out at 10pm on a Thursday and coming back at 6am on a Sunday morning.
Who exactly are those flight for??
Just nonsense.
They're just filler routes in Ryanairs schedule essentially.
Exactly - Holding open slots , but zero interest in actually providing something of use to passengers or more importantly potential passengers.
Its why people go to Dublin for better flight times aswell. Dublin and even Cork have better timed flights
Indeed - I live 10 minutes from Shannon Airport , but often I have no option but to travel to another Airport to get meaningful flights and connections.
The Liverpool flights are just a perfect example - Utterly pointless scheduling - of no use to anyone anywhere.
Yep. I've family in Limerick who drove to ORK to fly to Faro as SNN departure/arrival times were just not at desirable times. They had to do same for a Birmingham trip last year too.
Exactly the point I was making. Bringing routes like Newcastle won't do anything, tiny support from Ireland for matches and it's not exactly a big tourist city. You're relying on stag and hen groups mainly for somewhere like Newcastle and not much else.
Edinburgh would be a fine route but the times are absolutely awful so again, pointless.
Thats just 2 of the Ryanair routes that came to mind straight away.
They should of bought a Shannon-Bristol route instead of Newcastle. Bristol seems highly requested on social media
Also the price lf flights ex Shannon can be high. I no families that have gone to fly from Dublin and Cork because flights were cheaper
But only if they provide a schedule that is functionally useful.
Announcing "We now fly to XYZ" is meaningless if that flight leaves at 11pm on a Tuesday and comes back the following Monday at 6am or something.
Completely agree.
There was a good Liverpool timeslot last year but it seems to be gone now and the current timeslot is terrible for a high volume destination.
I live 5 minutes from the airport and in the last year, I've flown from Cork and Dublin 4 times. 3 times because the route wasn't available from Shannon and the other was to save about €1200.
TUI to operate summer service from Shannon to Majorca for 2025:
https://clareherald.com/news/tourism/tui-to-operate-summer-service-from-shannon-to-majorca/
Thats a lot of money. People are saving a fortune flying elsewhere
The old days of 3x daily MAN, 2x daily BHX and 6x weekly BRS with Aer Lingus Regional were great for connectivity. More pricey than what you'd pay for Ryanair though.
I didn't mind though as the timings were acceptable and not at silly o'clock
any working discount code for parking at Shannon airport please
Nah - why would they when the car parks there are pretty much at capacity the whole time now?
TKS4FLYSNN code ended over a year ago and nothing since.
Does anyone know if there are rumours of new routes for summer 2025?
Aer lingus confirming Dublin LHR will reduce from 14 to 12.
Does anyone expect any threats to the Shannon service?
In all the talk about caps this a significant enough move , estimating 250k passengers pa
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