Originally Posted by
AVGEEK7812
Airport in the middle of no where? I think not. Its near Limerick and Galway. Very popular cities. Also near loads of tourist attractions in Clare. It has a tonne of business’ in the region with numerous on its door step in Shannon Ind estate.
Loads of routes work out of SNN including BHX, MAN, EDI, LPL. It has more routes to the US than NCL.
Great for a ‘Airport in the middle of no where’
Clearly your passionate about the airport which is good to see. I imagine Newcastle would sustain a US route if it had US pre clearance element to it and of course, Ireland and the US have long and rich cultural links which Newcastle could never replicate.
Limerick and Galway have a combined population of under 200,000 - Sunderland (no airport) has 150,000 more. Newcastle handles millions more passengers than Shannon
But alas, as a hereditary Irish passport holder - I really don't get the defensive nature on this forum sometimes. Your local airport offers what you need and does a job, mine does the same. We all want more and better!