Originally Posted by
DButler
"We generally get through the DFS labyrynth as quickly as possible"
I think that DFS labyrinth was invented by the Irish - certainly the first place I ever saw it was at Dublin an age ago - and of course it was quickly taken up by everyone else. Still not as bad as IKEA tho'...............
I don't know about the labyrinth, but Duty Free shopping was invented in 1947 at Shannon Aeroport. Legend has it that Irish Coffee was also invented there, and one of the first customers for this exotic new cocktail was Marilyn Monroe.
It's many years since I last flew through SNN and at that time is was a museum of the golden age of transatlantic flying - it was as if it was stuck in a 1947 time-warp. I was the only boarding passenger for the SNN-DUB hop in surely the world's shortest 747 flight - this was in the days when all transatlantic flights into Ireland had to make an obligatory stop at SNN.