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Here's link
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/
Click on tuesday show.
Slightly worrying what the outcome would have been if landing was not a success. I suspect there were explosives or the lik on board.
Did i here correctly that there was bother with two engines?
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http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/
Click on tuesday show.
Slightly worrying what the outcome would have been if landing was not a success. I suspect there were explosives or the lik on board.
Did i here correctly that there was bother with two engines?
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They played part of the story on Morning Ireland today. Looks like people are awful worred about "Dangerous Goods" coming through Irish airports. I wonder do they know what exactly dangerous goods are, and how they are not always explosives or arms?
Ireland must be unique in the world as far as Airports and Golf courses go 
4 - 5 hours to get from Kerry to Dublin by car or train .. take an RE to Dublin it's 1 hour flying time BUT at peak time getting through DUB, onto a bus or cab and into the city centre .. an hour or more .. add in check-in time / drive to KIR and that can be almost 3 hours.
When you say too many airports in Ireland, I think on the west coast you find one every 50 miles or so, from KIR up to NOC that's 4 aiports over a 170 mile distance. One the east .. Dublin, Belfast and Waterford. Should just slap one in Athlone for the craic!
Shannon, Cork and Dublin, that's all we need. But the amount of flights from Kerry, Sligo, Knock and Galway by RE makes you wonder ... they are profitable routes?
4 - 5 hours to get from Kerry to Dublin by car or train .. take an RE to Dublin it's 1 hour flying time BUT at peak time getting through DUB, onto a bus or cab and into the city centre .. an hour or more .. add in check-in time / drive to KIR and that can be almost 3 hours.
When you say too many airports in Ireland, I think on the west coast you find one every 50 miles or so, from KIR up to NOC that's 4 aiports over a 170 mile distance. One the east .. Dublin, Belfast and Waterford. Should just slap one in Athlone for the craic!
Shannon, Cork and Dublin, that's all we need. But the amount of flights from Kerry, Sligo, Knock and Galway by RE makes you wonder ... they are profitable routes?
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Connections
With the new Aer Lingus / Jet Blue code share, the following new destinations are now available from Shannon:
Austin(AUS)
Aguadilla(BQN)
Burlington (BTV)
Buffalo (BUF)
Charlotte (CLT)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Houston (HOU)
Jacksonville (JAX)
New Orleans (MSY)
West Palm Beach (PBI)
Portland (PDX)
Phoenix (PHX)
Pittsburgh(PIT)
Ponce (PSE)
Portland (PWM)
Raleigh/Durham (RDU)
Richmond (RIC)
Rochester (ROC)
Fort Myers (RSW)
San Juan (SJU)
Syracuse (SYR)
Tampa (TPA)
Who needs Heathrow when you have City Jet and Jet Blue
Austin(AUS)
Aguadilla(BQN)
Burlington (BTV)
Buffalo (BUF)
Charlotte (CLT)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Houston (HOU)
Jacksonville (JAX)
New Orleans (MSY)
West Palm Beach (PBI)
Portland (PDX)
Phoenix (PHX)
Pittsburgh(PIT)
Ponce (PSE)
Portland (PWM)
Raleigh/Durham (RDU)
Richmond (RIC)
Rochester (ROC)
Fort Myers (RSW)
San Juan (SJU)
Syracuse (SYR)
Tampa (TPA)
Who needs Heathrow when you have City Jet and Jet Blue
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I wouldn't close any regional airports, just not give them capital funding for expansion.
Realistically, you'd be looking at maintaining the three large airports and developing one of the north-western airports to provide a decent centre in the region. For many reasons, Knock is the best choice there. It already has a decent length runway. Galway is too close to Shannon. Sligo is unexpandable without going to great cost and environmental damage. Knock's location isn't ideal, but it's not the worst either.
If you were going back to plan aviation from scratch, you probably wouldn't even have Cork and Shannon in their current forms, just a single south-western airport located somewhere between Mallow and Croom, with 7 million passengers and decent rail and road access to both Cork and Limerick as well as Kerry. But that's an option that's long since gone. In the north-west, there's still the opportunity to get it right.
Realistically, you'd be looking at maintaining the three large airports and developing one of the north-western airports to provide a decent centre in the region. For many reasons, Knock is the best choice there. It already has a decent length runway. Galway is too close to Shannon. Sligo is unexpandable without going to great cost and environmental damage. Knock's location isn't ideal, but it's not the worst either.
If you were going back to plan aviation from scratch, you probably wouldn't even have Cork and Shannon in their current forms, just a single south-western airport located somewhere between Mallow and Croom, with 7 million passengers and decent rail and road access to both Cork and Limerick as well as Kerry. But that's an option that's long since gone. In the north-west, there's still the opportunity to get it right.
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Some good points there about the regianal airport.
I feel that like everyhting else during the celtic tiger locals got carried away with the prospects for their local area. A bit of common sense may now prevail. I heard people in Longford were calling for the development of Abbeyshrule as a reginal airport at one stage. Also Kerry were looking for Transatlantic flights and I also think that scheduled t/a flights from Knock is far fetched. Many Irish airports may well have seen their best years in terms of rate of growth.
I feel that like everyhting else during the celtic tiger locals got carried away with the prospects for their local area. A bit of common sense may now prevail. I heard people in Longford were calling for the development of Abbeyshrule as a reginal airport at one stage. Also Kerry were looking for Transatlantic flights and I also think that scheduled t/a flights from Knock is far fetched. Many Irish airports may well have seen their best years in terms of rate of growth.
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Light aircraft crash at Shannon
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It was a bad day for the West of Ireland when SNN agreed that deal, hopefully someone from the EU will start looking at this very very closely!
Thursday May 01 2008
Freedom of Information documents just released chart 40 European Commission exchanges on Ryanair's deal at Shannon Airport, confirming an investigation exclusively revealed by the 'Sunday Independent' in October 2005. The investigation was part of a Europe-wide probe into Ryanair's airport deals and resulted in no action against the Co Clare airport
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FR restore SNN links to poland
Ryanair have announced plans revive the snn to Lodz link (which they ran for a few months a year or so back).
They have also introduced services from shannon to Gdansk and Katowice, to replace the services offered by Centralwings, who recently suspended these operations from shannon.
They have also introduced services from shannon to Gdansk and Katowice, to replace the services offered by Centralwings, who recently suspended these operations from shannon.
Ryanair have announced plans revive the snn to Lodz link
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Possibly true although it's still very difficult to get freight to Shannon for an ontime departure. Once the Shannon tunnel is completed this could change but that's two years away.
Unfortunately as an airport Cork has never shown any interest in developing cargo traffic and tends to regard adhoc freighters in particular as a nuisance.
Unfortunately as an airport Cork has never shown any interest in developing cargo traffic and tends to regard adhoc freighters in particular as a nuisance.
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the Shannon Airport website has no press release to the 3 new ryanair routes announced last week. Are Ryanair route announcements not importmant anymore or do they think oh 
we are going to lose even more money?
we are going to lose even more money?
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Shannon's future
Do Shannon still have to pay Ryanair 2 euro per passenger on new routes in marketing support / Hello Money? Shannon Management will be leaner but fitter if they ever decide to operate as a commercial entity and stop pandering to the Save the West lobby.