Given that Shannon lost almost 60% of its traffic since 2007, it has to turn around at some stage. Counting the Santa flights twice was pathetic in my view. They should have waited untill they achieve some real growth in 2014.
To be honest I was surprised that they didn't achieve growth in 2013 given the extra services they produced to Chicago, Glasgow and Philadelphia. There must have been decline elsewhere in the route network most probably in the transit business.