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thats a risk, but depends on what FR launch. I'd hope SNN have also learnt their lesson and not depend too much on one carrier. Neil Pakey seems to be clued in enough.
"Major announcement" could mean a couple of sun routes too..
"Major announcement" could mean a couple of sun routes too..
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I'm pretty certain that Ryanair are going to appear to play ball with the Government, especially with early route announcements after the departure tax was reduced to 0.
Overall, the reduction must be worth around 20 million to them and they aren't going to jeopardize that for a few sun routes.
Give it 6 months and you might see some of the routes quietly replaced with sun routes though.
Overall, the reduction must be worth around 20 million to them and they aren't going to jeopardize that for a few sun routes.
Give it 6 months and you might see some of the routes quietly replaced with sun routes though.
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Great potential news for Snn best of luck to all good news for handling agents duty free staff and fuelers ect ,from an ex fr Shannon pilot now based in Germany after the introduction of Bertie's tax
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We shall see tomorrow what management have learned, my guess would be 2 more aircraft based and doubling of passengers from the current 500,000 to 1 million. Mix of routes to cater for all but I am inclined to agree with 840 post.
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Ryanair at Shannon
It'll be interesting to see which routes Ryanair bring back, and whether they decide to try any that they haven't had a go at before.
Between 2005 and 2008 Ryanair tried just about every route imaginable, before binning the vast majority of them and cutting the base back to the current list: Alicante, Lanzarote, Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted, Malaga, Nantes, Palma, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
At the peak in 2008, Ryanair was flying 20 departures a day with 6 based aircraft, compared to only 5 daily departures and one aircraft now. They should have data about which routes (if any) were profitable, which should allow them to avoid the risk of trying untested routes.
Here's the list of dropped routes (I may have missed a few as there are so many):
Beauvais, Bergamo, Birmingham, Biarritz, Bournemouth, Bristol, Carcassonne, Rome Ciampino, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Girona, Hahn, Krakow, Katowice, Kaunas, Leeds Bradford, Lubeck, Lodz, Luton, Madrid, Manchester, Murcia, Newcastle, Niederrhein, Skavsta, Prestwick, Riga, Berlin SXF, Turin, Treviso.
Between 2005 and 2008 Ryanair tried just about every route imaginable, before binning the vast majority of them and cutting the base back to the current list: Alicante, Lanzarote, Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted, Malaga, Nantes, Palma, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
At the peak in 2008, Ryanair was flying 20 departures a day with 6 based aircraft, compared to only 5 daily departures and one aircraft now. They should have data about which routes (if any) were profitable, which should allow them to avoid the risk of trying untested routes.
Here's the list of dropped routes (I may have missed a few as there are so many):
Beauvais, Bergamo, Birmingham, Biarritz, Bournemouth, Bristol, Carcassonne, Rome Ciampino, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Girona, Hahn, Krakow, Katowice, Kaunas, Leeds Bradford, Lubeck, Lodz, Luton, Madrid, Manchester, Murcia, Newcastle, Niederrhein, Skavsta, Prestwick, Riga, Berlin SXF, Turin, Treviso.
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It'll be interesting to see which routes Ryanair bring back, and whether they decide to try any that they haven't had a go at before.
Between 2005 and 2008 Ryanair tried just about every route imaginable, before binning the vast majority of them and cutting the base back to the current list: Alicante, Lanzarote, Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted, Malaga, Nantes, Palma, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
At the peak in 2008, Ryanair was flying 20 departures a day with 6 based aircraft, compared to only 5 daily departures and one aircraft now. They should have data about which routes (if any) were profitable, which should allow them to avoid the risk of trying untested routes.
Here's the list of dropped routes (I may have missed a few as there are so many):
Beauvais, Bergamo, Birmingham, Biarritz, Bournemouth, Bristol, Carcassonne, Rome Ciampino, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Girona, Hahn, Krakow, Katowice, Kaunas, Leeds Bradford, Lubeck, Lodz, Luton, Madrid, Manchester, Murcia, Newcastle, Niederrhein, Skavsta, Prestwick, Riga, Berlin SXF, Turin, Treviso.
Between 2005 and 2008 Ryanair tried just about every route imaginable, before binning the vast majority of them and cutting the base back to the current list: Alicante, Lanzarote, Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted, Malaga, Nantes, Palma, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
At the peak in 2008, Ryanair was flying 20 departures a day with 6 based aircraft, compared to only 5 daily departures and one aircraft now. They should have data about which routes (if any) were profitable, which should allow them to avoid the risk of trying untested routes.
Here's the list of dropped routes (I may have missed a few as there are so many):
Beauvais, Bergamo, Birmingham, Biarritz, Bournemouth, Bristol, Carcassonne, Rome Ciampino, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Girona, Hahn, Krakow, Katowice, Kaunas, Leeds Bradford, Lubeck, Lodz, Luton, Madrid, Manchester, Murcia, Newcastle, Niederrhein, Skavsta, Prestwick, Riga, Berlin SXF, Turin, Treviso.
Routes that I think will return will be:
Milan BGY
Paris BVA
Barcelona (GRO or BCN)
Brussels CRL
Krakow
Bristol
Frankfurt
Possible somewhere else in south France and another Polish.
They will increase flights to Malaga, London, Liverpool, Palma.
Big question is will they be able to resist SNN-FAO route if they start it Aer Lingus will drop it (good news for ORK) and Brussels is very possibly and this could also affect EI at ORK.
It hard to call as a spate of touristy routes from both ORK and SNN won't work long term that's if ORK will get something from this but if they directly or indirectly target EI/EIR it could be good for ORK as EI will leave.
As you say they have tried just about every route possible so they will most likely stick to what was somewhat viable as going to those places that failed in the good times now would just be poor management.
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"doubling of passengers from the current 500,000 to 1 million"
Seems to be the figure doing the rounds
live stream if anyone wants it Corporate Announcement From Shannon Airport
Seems to be the figure doing the rounds
live stream if anyone wants it Corporate Announcement From Shannon Airport
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200k seats to Berlin, Munich, Paris, Warsaw, Krakow, Faro, Nice, Canaries in 2014 and 300k in full year of 2015. Extra STN services.
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So they have taken on EI on the Faro route will be interesting alright seeing as it done so well for EI last year. Now lets see what they actually can bring to Cork, Berlin would be a great addition to Cork miss that route since EI dropped it!!
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Emirates at SNN
Emirates SkyCargo A6-EFJ passed through SNN early this morning routing LAX-CVG-SNN-DXB. Was just thinking wouldn't it be nice if we had a transit stop with pick-up rights from the states to DXB even twice a week. It would really open up the west of Ireland.
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Interesting to see Aer Lingus using 319 on Shannon London Heathrow route..
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Flew back from LHR on EI 358 this afternoon and certainly wasn't an A319. Landing was "interesting" to say the least. Floated down the runway with first wheel contact at the western end of Shannon Aerospace whilst moving laterally across the runway.