Shannon Airport Thread [Mod Warning in First Post]

Quite frankly I don't believe you.

Every bog in the West of Ireland probably had the same yarn.

It was October 2003 when we spent a whole day there. We were flying to NYC to family and arrived at Shannon to find out Aer Lingus were on strike. Think our flight was due to leave early afternoon and we didn’t get out till midnight on a chartered Air Transit flight.

Looks like the third weekly CDG flight might be a victim of the fuel price crisis - now showing as ‘sold out’ for any date you try to book. Fortunately the other two weekly rotations are still bookable…

10-15 minutes max depending on how many people are ahead of you in the queue

Thank you both. Assumed would not be too bad.
Final question, facilities after pre clearance?

Thanks again

Not been trough SNN in a while but Zest is fantastic!

That’s exactly what you get at the Sheridan Bar and Zest post security. Seriously overpriced with desperate standards. Most of the airport staff avoid/boycott them but don’t take my word, see Google reviews, TripAdvisor. They were good. Zest had some great locations and reputation.

Ive had great sandwhiches from Zest at the airport. I was comparing it to the generic rubbish you get all over the world.

Nothing beat the quality of the main restaurant before it was franchised out to hms host.

As is the Sheridan bar and security. The airport goes on about being quick and easy however it's busy more often than not now and they seem unprepared for the predictable crowd flows.

It needs a pub thats separate to the restaurant.

As in a place that just serves pints and drinks at a somewhat normal price without food and coffee etc. all being bundled in.

It's a bit of a cod anyway that you can buy a few bulmers or wine etc. in the duty free at a reasonable price but get fleeced next door in the restaurant.

I note these now end on July 15th.

That’s a shame. Loads seem reasonable from what I’ve heard. Not BOS, but I flew in on the DL JFK-SNN service last week which was basically full. Usually fly EI but needed the v late connection timing (23.45 departure) which the additional BOS rotations also pretty much facilitate.

I heard it was more that the 139 out of DUB had a poor load factor. The 139 is the outbound leg of this W route. So SNN will loose out due to poor loads out of DUB it seems. I heard the EI JFK route was soft this year. BOS is strong by all accounts. LHR has very high load factor.

The evening SNN LHR is struggling owing to its late arrival time - plenty of availability using avios.