Showing posts with label Shannon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shannon. Show all posts

Monday, December 30, 2013

Shannon Airport - Bumper Christmas

It proved to be a bumper Christmas for returning emigrants, with Shannon Airport set to record a 21% increase in passenger numbers over the festive season.

Some 43,000 passengers will fly in and out of Shannon over the Christmas period - December 21st to January 2nd – up almost 8,000 on the same period last year when over 35,000 travelled.   This will make it the first Christmas in five years that passenger numbers at the airport have shown an increase.

Said Niall Maloney, Airport Operations Director at Shannon Airport, “We are having a very busy Christmas here and particularly so this weekend.  This is the busiest period of the winter season and we also have our free Santa Flights with Ryanair resuming on Saturday and Sunday so it it’s all hands on deck.

“An airport is an emotional place anyway as families and friends reunite or say goodbye but it is particularly so at Christmas.  This weekend is probably the happiest of the year, though, and the buzz is fantastic as there are so many flying in to be home for Christmas.

“The arrivals area is where it all happens, particularly for US and London flights as they are full of people flying back from the States or, via London, from the likes of Australia, the Middle East, Far East and elsewhere.”

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Shannon Airport - Aer Lingus Expansion

Aer Lingus Regional is to expand its services at Shannon Airport including a new daily service to Bristol.

The move will see 20 new additional jobs at the airport.

The service, operated by Aer Arann, will lead to an addition of 100,000 passengers from new and expanded routes at Shannon.

The airline said the decision to expand its services to and from Shannon was directly related to the Government's Budget announcement to abolish the travel tax from April 2014.

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar said the new services should help bring an additional 33,000 tourists to the mid-west region.

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Edition he said that following the announcement in the Budget that the travel tax would be scrapped from next April, 23 new routes have been announced from Irish airports.

The Shannon-Bristol service will begin on 3 April.

Aer Lingus also announced it will double capacity on its Shannon-Birmingham route, and is offering pre-clearance connectivity from Birmingham and Manchester onto Aer Lingus' services to New York and Boston via Shannon. 

Shannon Airport - Operation Santa

Sunday, 15th December 2013: The wonder of Christmas unfolded in the skies this weekend for almost 2,000 children as Shannon Airport and Ryanair s magical  Operation Santa had lift off.

The children were taken 15,000 ft into the skies to meet with Santa on board the Ryanair flights.  They also got to lap up the Christmas party atmosphere generated at the airport, complete with Santa’s elves, cartoon costumed characters, a Punch & Judy Show, balloon artists and a range of giveaways.

The Santa Flights mark the commencement of Ryanair’s eight new routes – Berlin, Paris, Fuerteventura, Warsaw, Faro, Munich, Nice and Krakow – at the end of March.  This was a continuation of a memorable weekend of community engagement at Shannon Airport which started on Friday night with a free Christmas music celebration with Ireland’s first lady of traditional music, Sharon Shannon, in front of 1,200 guests to salute the airport’s first year as an independent entity.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Shannon, Ryanair and Santa

Ryanair is offering free flights to more than 3,000 children and the chance to meet Santa in the sky over the next two weekends – 14 and 15 December, and 21 and 22 December.
Ryanair will operate a total of 24 Santa flights where kids will get to meet Santa on board a 40-minute flight around Shannon. The free tickets are being distributed on a first come, first served basis. “Ryanair is delighted to team up with Shannon Airport to offer free Santa flights to over 3,000 lucky children over the coming weekends,” said Ryanair’s Maria Macken.
We look forward to welcoming the children on board for what should be a flight to remember.” AirportParkingIreland