Just throwing it out there for the crack. We have airlines such as continental and usairways that operate single aisle aircraft. Could someone like Ryanair operate a 738 with seats taken out across the pond from Shannon to a secondary airport near Boston?

That whole talk of FR going across the pond has gone very quiet.

737-8 can make it to Boston. Headwinds could mean a fuelstop enroute as FlyGobespan experienced on occasion from Knock to Boston and New York. Ryanair 737's do not have HF equipped radio and that is expensive to retrofit. Pilots would also need training. O'Leary did say as recently as last month that starting a new airline to undertake TA crossings is still on the cards but Boeing & Airbus prices are not dropping. Both these companies have had significant bookings this year for aircraft.

Hopes of a new route between SNN - Belfastl.

New Shannon link to The Canaries | The Clare People

If RE had any sence they would take a look at their home base where a route to Belfast City is hanging on by its teeth using a 19 seater aircraft. Cork's catchment area is nearly treble that of Limerick and for RE to further develop intra-ireland routes is something Stobart group i think will be quick to quinch following the disastrous few months for intra-ireland routes.

In My opinion, when Aer Lingus flew the route in 2001 over 10,000 people used it
So if Aer Aranns prices are resonable, they will see me as a customer :)
Currently its a 7 hour bus journey or a flight in a LET to Galway, neither of which are very enjoyable :rolleyes:

So I for one wish Aer Arann the best of luck if they start the route ;)

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DM. I agree passengers were in excess of 10,000 pa and I flew that route quite frequently. I used to fly into Belfast, hire a car and head to Craigavon to visit a customer and make it back to the airport for the return leg. The route was mainly operated by an MD11 with American flight crew and Shannon based cabin crew. Most of the pax getting off or on at Belfast were those who availed of the transatlantic connections offered by Aer Lingus I.e. Onward connection to Boston, Baltimore, JFK, Chicago, Newark and Boston. Naturally Continental pose a huge threat to this route possibly being reactivated by Aer Arann but saying that the population of Shannon town comprises an incredible amount from NÍ. I'd like to see it back and would definitely support it.

busy down at shannon today, 4 diverts already i DL from ATL and 3 BA aircraft on the way with LHR and LGW closed

I'm intrigued; three VS diverts too - including one from Lagos and one from Tokyo. As I read the map surely SNN isn't the best possible divert point from either of those sources...

Well with LGW, LTN, STN, LHR, BHX all closed. Manchester full. Newcastle not able to take any more large aircraft.

SNN was the only real option. Could of used DUB but not sure why but there was 2 AA B777 diverted to DUB around the time the Virgin diverted to SNN.

New Aer Lingus route to LGW from SNN. Starts on March 27 and its daily.

LGW - SNN - 06:50 - 08:15
SNN - LGW - 09:00 - 10:25

Great news. Blows me away though that during mannions time in charge nothing from snn was viable,this during the boom and now they have lhr cdgg, lgw, the regional routes and the US,
Makes you wonder..

Good news for SNN.I wonder will FR try and trash the route yield?

There was an easyjet a319 at snn yesterday doing visual circuits i'm told.i thought training was done in the sim these days.

Both EI and FR are operating daily LGW from ORK so both should do well.

Easyjet is a fairly regular sight around here recently, asked the same question before

Isn't there some maintenance done for Easyjet in both SNN and DUB?

There is in Dublin but not sure about SNN.

Maybe the Shannon management have learned their lesson.

Aer Lingus are in Shannon for the long haul, and the recent announcement of SNN - LGW is just another sign of that commitment - that is to work in parallel with the airport authority to grow traffic.

Where are FR's promised millions of pax now ?:yuk:

I think they have Peacock. Shannon has taken an absolute pummeling in the last year but they will be better off for it in the long run with Ryanair competing on a level playing field to everyone else. Ryanair are still there of course so there are obviously some routes worth sticking around and paying higher fees for. If they can't make the marginal routes work there are other airlines with smaller sized fleet that can give them a go (e.g. RE/EIR).

If the demand simply isn't there to make a particular route profitable, there's no point giving it to Ryanair on the cheap just to boost pax numbers at the expense of every other airline.

Spot on, Kinocker !

Edinburgh announced with EI regional and increases in frequency on others.

Aer Lingus Regional's new Shannon route - RTÉ News