Originally Posted by
cml387
Checking back it seems to have been started in 1975. Aeroflot paid for the landing fees with jet fuel in a barter deal. And Ireland and the UK joined the EEC in 1973
Having been in Shannon sometimes when the Aeroflot flights were passing through, the passengers were an exotic bunch, but a bit morose.
I've only been to Shannon once, in the 1990s, when the place was like a monument to the glamour of aviation in the 40s and 50s, when it was the main first stop-off in Europe for transatlantic Constellations and Stratocruisers and the like. I wish I'd taken photographs. Is it still like that, or has it had the romance of that era modernised out of it?
I spent part of my childhood in Moscow, and am familiar with the Great Slav Soul; when a Russian starts discussing his soul, you know he's had too much to drink, and will become morose, aggressive, or asleep shortly thereafter. You evidently saw them in the morose phase.