Shannon supporters are contradicting themselves so much on this forum its absolutely hilarious,
No one is looking down on the turn-around of SNN, its a good thing.
However the basis for which they presented 2013 growth is false.
Within the DAA pre-2013 - DUB, ORK, SNN - Only counted commercial passenger statistics in the following way (DUB, ORK still do it);
COMMERCIAL
SCHEDULED DEP/ARR
BIZ JETS DEP/ARR
DIVERTS DEP/ARR
CHARTERS DEP/ARR
The term non-commercial refers to G/A plus what we call W/TRANS flights i.e. Cork to the Kinsale Gas Fields/Aberdeen oil routes. The later is counted as the destination differs from the origin - Where ever the origin is the same as the destination the actual system used does not count those passengers - Rightly so, so the question is should Cork count the G/A flights also? Shannon clearly believes this is the case - Shannon to Shannon with xmas flights had a double boost for SNN, It gave them growth and good
PR - Was a good move, if they had left out counting those pax. For example in 2003/2004 in the JetMagic era we had many flights they did taking passengers up for a flight around the Harbour/Kinsale and they also had plenty of promo flights - Those figures were never counted.
Those of you thinking Ryanair done this for free? Open your eyes.
