Shannon

[SealinkBF]

Aer Lingus have just announced closure of cabin crew base.
45 ground staff made redundant, 81 cabin crew offered “enhanced severance” or transfer to Dublin.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/634062/breaking-aer-lingus-set-to-close-shannon-airport-base.html

[772]

very sad news for those involved, for SNN and the region as a whole.

I wonder whether the LHR service will remain with a W rotation with DUB based aircraft and crew.

[AviationFan2021]

Ryanair added a new SNN - Barcelona Girona (GRO) route yesterday. It will operate twice weekly from 29 March

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

Do Aer Lingus no longer have ground staff at Shannon? Engineering?
Who got the passenger handling contract?

[AviationFan2021]

Pretty sure there’s still Ground staff in Shannon. They have come back since LHR resumed last Sept.

[gaelgeoir]

Do Aer Lingus no longer have ground staff at Shannon? Engineering?
Who got the passenger handling contract?
Aer Lingus never handled RYR at Shannon in the past. Swissport are their handler in Shannon.

[SWBKCB]

Ryanair has announced two new routes for Shannon Airport for next summer and also said it would base a third aircraft there. It said this will add another 30 direct jobs at Shannon. The new routes are to Béziers in the south of France and Newcastle in the UK.

The new twice weekly Béziers service will run Mondays and Saturdays from March 27 next year, while the new Newcastle service will run three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from March 26. Ryanair will operate a total of 24 routes and over 180 weekly flights at Shannon Airport next summer, a 60% increase on 2019 pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/1006/1327530-shannon-ryanair-routes/

[AVGEEK7812]

Aer Lingus are positioning LRG to SNN tomoro and LRB/LRC are already there. Does anyone know why?

Some of the flights the NEO operate from DUB/SNN going on hiatus now until March like they do every year due to maintenance and low demand. EI119 has stopped until march yesterday so is that why LRG is going to SNN as well?

[Link Kilo]

Delta back to JFK for S24:

https://news.delta.com/summer-europe-delta-fly-largest-ever-transatlantic-schedule