Cork has gotten 4 new route announcements this year, despite the fact that 2 were cancelled there is 20 new weekly flights! Shannon has got 2 "new routes", 1 of which was basically a lower capacity return of an earlier cancelled service, the other being a weekly Turkey charter.
Seems like Shannon needs to start getting its act together. Edinburgh or Glasgow need to return and quite frankly I'm starting to wonder whether the management are doing anything on this regard. Its like they open negotiations and close them just as fast. My source has revealed to me this evening that Shannon has opened negotiations with Stobart, Flybe, Loganair, CityJet and Ryanair, all which have failed. Why? I don't know. I am very confident of a market for these services, especially with the lack of a Knock service. They were success on a daily ATR72 prior to the pullout of stobart, there is no reason why they cannot be now.