Shannon is hardly the first airport to do Santa flights for kids at Christmas, i remember Manchester ran them for years when it perhaps cared more about the community, schools and kids with special needs which Shannon helped with. Very credible too for Ryanair to get lots of publicity for its 10 new destinations from this Spring by using this as a way to publicise (and they did generate loads of publicity for all those new destinations), and cheaper than media advertising.
Moving on to more current matters, today Shannon received a A380 AF transit from LAX to CDG with 518 pax on board.....any pics?