I just have to say that some of the posts are so stupid recently. Things like SNN being debt free etc. Aer Rianta International propped up DUB, ORK & SNN for years and was a SNN Company until taken away recently. Posters on this forum should state facts and not hearsay!!! Can the donkeys here who posted, post, how much on those outside DUB have paid in actual taxes to keep DUB going?
Airlines like Aer Lingus, United (SNN is more profitable that EWR- DUBl ), DL etc are making $ in SNN.
If SNN were to be given $1bn to waste of tax payers money like DUB were then I think SNN would make a go of it much better. T2 is a farce, paid by mostly people outside the DUB area. Typical uneducated design whereby if you need to go from A- B you much travel via X, Y & Z and that is without being a connecting passenger.
ORK and SNN have been burdened by DUB long enough so get over it. We propped up the Shamrock carrier for long enough so that it could fly the cronies out of DUB.
Delusional post.
Dublin carried more Pax in March than SNN did in the whole of last year yet somehow you think that SNN is the jewel in the crown !!!!!
SNN would have been in substantial trouble over the last 10 years had not Dubya invaded Iraq as US forces transiting through there kept its numbers up and the sirport hid behind this claiming we are so successful.
SNN is a MINOR regional airport that used Politics to prevent other airports notably Dublin having direct routes to the US, net result was many Pax went to London rather than SNN. It was overstaffed and overmanned for years before winds of reality blew in.