SHANNON

[JWP2010]

That's better.

That is better timing.

[vkid]

Continental add 4 more weekly flights to Newark in the summer.
Press Releases > Shannon Airport Welcomes new Continental New York Services and return to growth in US Market

[ryan2000]

Continental's new service

I like the spin on the Shannon Press release about Continentals' new service to Newark.
You'd never think that they'd been operating the route for over a decade or that they also operated 4 extra flights per week in the Summer Peak last year.


Still fair play to Shannon for securing the extra frequency again this year.

[vkid]

Anything extra is a positive, but sure the boyos from Cark have to get their dig in..like, biy

[Fly_bill]

what are the loads like on the new LGW? Im presuming had slow start when its down to 4 per week in the winter as I notice NOC has gone back to daily for the coming winter??

[aer lingus]

Continental/United 11times a week, Delta daily, Aer Lingus 4 per week. That's a lot of business that AL have lost to the oppisition.

[840]

Continental and Delta have more appropriate aircraft for the route.

Filling an A330 is not easy.

[ryan2000]

I'm not really getting at Shannon. We had the same tactic at Cork recently when Aer Aran's Summer Jersey service was spun as a new service. It too operated last Summer under the EI franchise and has in fact operated for several Summers'

I suppose we can't blame the airports when they've delivered little or no new routes for rehashing old ones. Surprising that journalists don't cop on to it.

[racedo]

Surprising that journalists don't cop on to it.

What from the journos who highlight that the near miss with the Boeing A380 Jumbo Jet was caused by a propellor not working properly and the full jet with 80 passengers narrowly missed the school, hospital, kindergarten, old peoples home before landing safely at the airport.

[Jamie2k9]

Aer Lingus SNN - CDG not bookable again. Are they ever going to decide if they are keeping the route or dropping it.

[gazcork]

BA 239 diversion

239 LHR-BOS turned around about 200 miles of SW Irish coast. Fuel dumping and diverting to Shannon. Now on base leg for a 12 mile final - seems like technical problem

[gazcork]

239 now on ground - parking at stand 42. Rescue services talking to captain now

[gazcork]

smoke in cabin confirmed. Pax disembarking and engineer been asked to do internal check. Flight was initially delayed 65mins out of LHR

[SNNUS]

Delta

Looks Like Delta will not fly to SNN for the winter period this year, Flight ends end of October.

[Jamie2k9]

Looks Like Delta will not fly to SNN for the winter period this year, Flight ends end of October.

Direct flights are still bookable all winter.

[SNNUS]

Not removed from GDS but people on the ground have been told. Shame they usually are the cheapest across the atlantic.

[Jamie2k9]

They are cutting a few other European routes as well. Fuel cost would be the main reason.

[DannyKelly22]

I wonder if they do drop off JFK for the winter, will EI re-instate it for the 12 weeks that they are not flying the route now that there is no airline on SNN-JFK?

[EISNN]

I doubt it Danny. EI have said traditionally those 12 weeks don't generate the revenue for them due to lack of demand and the aircraft type. Think it's clear that EI would prefer to pull transatlantic routes from SNN altogether and centralise everything from Dublin. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future that CFN/LDY, KIR, NOC, ORK and SNN had once daily commuter air services fed into longhaul services or in some cases twice a day.

[brian_dromey]

I doubt it Danny. EI have said traditionally those 12 weeks don't generate the revenue for them due to lack of demand and the aircraft type. Think it's clear that EI would prefer to pull transatlantic routes from SNN altogether and centralise everything from Dublin. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future that CFN/LDY, KIR, NOC, ORK and SNN had once daily commuter air services fed into longhaul services or in some cases twice a day.

There is absolutely no evidence that EI would rather centralize all services at DUB, indeed exactly the opposite. They have modified their operations at SNN to allow them to profitably serve the routes where demand exists. They are operating more routes ex SNN than at any time in the recent past with LHR, LGW, BHX, BRS, GLA, MAN, CDG, JFK and BOS. All bar JFK and BOS operate year round, even then JFK and BOS operate 40 weeks a year.

EI could long ago have operated domestic routes, if they had wanted them. There is no market worth chasing. KIR and CFN may join the RE network as PSO's, but that would be about it. Can't see RE or EI going back to ORK or NOC from DUB. GWY and WAT will soon be history. It's only 2 and a half hours from Cork to DUB these days, less from Limerick, Galway, Waterford. Things have come a long way in the last few years, no need for a domestic route network these days.

UA (Continental) will still operate daily (or close to it) to EWR, as far as we know. While not ideal for O&D from certain parts of NYC, it offers onward connectivity across the Americas and is a damn sight better than no service at all!