Hmmm.
I looked at the numbers and, according to the Irish Indo today, there was about 360,000 carried on the route last year.
Works out at:
30,000pax/month
6,923 pax/week
989 pax/day
and, if there's an average of 6 flights/day (based on current Shannon schedule),
164 pax/flight.
put onto an Airbus 321 (with 212 seats, info sourced from wikipedia) that makes up a load factor of about 77%. For the whole year.
put onto an A320 (174 seats) that makes a load factor of 94% for the whole year.
It's soul destroying having to face into a 2 hour car journey when you have an airport 5 minutes from your house.
Try 1 and 1/2 hours, and I feel your pain TTT. That's why I'm on SNN's side.
The fact is people from all over the country fly from DUB, and they should not have to. I beleive there is now enough people to make a market from each airport. Bring in airport competition, and this will set the markets right!