Conair (highly appropriate username in this case by the way!), by your logic Shannon should just spend the rest of the Noonan giveaway cash flying passengers for free up and down the west coast to nowhere all day and night every day for the next year - as long as they are paying I'm sure Ryanair will be happy to oblige. They'd be the second
busiest airport on the island by the end of the year and would have plenty to write about in next year's press releases.
Counting these 'passengers' in the end of year's stats is beyond ridiculous.