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Using Table: Air Passenger Movement (Number) by Irish Airport, Foreign Airport, Month and Direction on the Central Statistics Office website I predict passenger numbers to be btween 1.5 and 2 million people.
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Maybe a second SNN based a/c in March with more routes to come? Good news in any case but would love to see them add a few more European routes.
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Sure did, heres confirmation
New Shannon-Paris Aer Lingus route - RTÉ News
Im a bit dissapointed with the frequency but I suppose if loads are good they will up it next summer.
There is always the threat to EI from Ryanair that they may come back at SNN. Especially with talk in the dail recently that the €10 tax has failed to reach its target and may be abolished if the airlines can demonstrate what they would do if it is abolished, I can see why EI may be expanding at SNN with care.
Is this a fianna fail joke,and the damage done?
New Shannon-Paris Aer Lingus route - RTÉ News
Im a bit dissapointed with the frequency but I suppose if loads are good they will up it next summer.
There is always the threat to EI from Ryanair that they may come back at SNN. Especially with talk in the dail recently that the €10 tax has failed to reach its target and may be abolished if the airlines can demonstrate what they would do if it is abolished, I can see why EI may be expanding at SNN with care.
Is this a fianna fail joke,and the damage done?
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Is there any truth in the rumour that EI are considering a LGW/SNN rotation to take up the slack from the recent FR cutback on the route?
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No doubt it would come at the expense of Cork, with the Gastwick based aircraft flying to Shannon instead of Cork 
A/C 1 - LGW - DUB
A/C 2 - LGW - AGP
A/C 3 - LGW - ORK & NOC
If A/C 1 can do DUB 5 times a day then A/C 3 can do SNN aswell.
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If EI based a second A320 in SNN it could operate LGW and CDG.
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No doubt it would come at the expense of Cork, with the Gatwick based aircraft flying to Shannon instead of Cork
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Cork did well out of SNN's FR pull out and the LHR pullout a few years back. Time for some compromise I think.
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So far there is only one daily ORK-LGW flight loaded for the summer, no morning flight has been loaded. SNN-LGW does appear on the route map in the current Cara issue, so SNN-LGW might well be added. The other options would be keep ORK as a 2x daily summer service, or send the aircraft elsewhere.
As for the LGW-DUB, it is operated 4x daily by a LGW aircraft and once daily by DUB based crew. Allows for early morning departures out of both London and Dublin. I think a flying pattern like LGW-SNN-LGW-ORK-LGW-AGP-LGW-ORK-LGW would be a big ask and lead to the early flights being very early, the late flights being very late and the operation very vulnerable to delay. Possible, but unlikely I would say.
As for the LGW-DUB, it is operated 4x daily by a LGW aircraft and once daily by DUB based crew. Allows for early morning departures out of both London and Dublin. I think a flying pattern like LGW-SNN-LGW-ORK-LGW-AGP-LGW-ORK-LGW would be a big ask and lead to the early flights being very early, the late flights being very late and the operation very vulnerable to delay. Possible, but unlikely I would say.
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Well, no, I genuinely do doubt that either pull out from Shannon were planned to benefit Cork, intentionally. They did however benefit Cork (and Kerry also)
Anyway, if they were to introduce SNN-LGW surely they would have done it in time for the CDG announcement? That said, might be better to be cautious in case O' Leary comes back guns blazing with a 5x daily SNN-BVA or something hilarious...
Anyway, if they were to introduce SNN-LGW surely they would have done it in time for the CDG announcement? That said, might be better to be cautious in case O' Leary comes back guns blazing with a 5x daily SNN-BVA or something hilarious...
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Where does SNN-LGW appear in Cara Magazine? I've had a look at the Oct/Nov issue and can't find it, the separate route map for SNN and the other smaller bases doesn't show any route between SNN and LGW and neither appears in the list of routes below the map.
There are only four lines from the LGW base, those four cover the current routes although one does go over LHR and doesn't seem to reconnect to any other route but you have to assume that's the DUB route.
There are only four lines from the LGW base, those four cover the current routes although one does go over LHR and doesn't seem to reconnect to any other route but you have to assume that's the DUB route.
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