This is old news! Shannon has needed independence since long before the ridiculous Shannon stop over was ever ditched!
They also need to get over their ambitions for a longhaul network! SNN is a small airport with a small catch entry zone and today’s aircraft can fly from pretty much any major city to anywhere else on the planet nonstop so the need to refuel in SNN is just no longer a valid reason. The US Immigration and customs facilities must cost a fortune to maintain and surely cannot justify the handful if flights that require it!
There is a great market for SNN as a cargo hub, training facility, maintenance center and low fares facility but this needs to be realised with more then a half hearted effort!

Interesting remark from a B&B owner when I was down in Dingle. He maintains that Shannon should change its name as it’s not “obvious” enough to many tourists who are booking online and don’t have the benefit of the knowledge that travel agents have.

People will look at a map of Ireland – see Dublin, Cork, Limerick etc. as the primary cities. No US flights to Cork, Limerick seems to have no airport and the only choice is Dublin.

It might seem bloody obvious to us that Shannon and Limerick are beside each other and convenient to the Kerry region but perhaps not as obvious if you are a foreign tourist making your own travel plans.

Cork airport has daily slots to heathrow … Apart from that Knock would give it a run for it’s money …. By the way I use cork every fortnight

Well said.

Sell it to Ryan Air they will make it work !

Shannon airport is to near to cork airport and therefore is there a need for two airports that close together?The only thing going for shannon airport is the long runway that dublin and cork dont have.But in two years the daa hope to build a new runway in dublin which would be longer then shannons.Shannon is on its knees and dublin is the life support thats keeping it alive.If the daa stop keeping it afloat its the death nail for that county.