![]() To have an expanded daily service to New York speaks volumes, too, about Shannon’s significance in the transatlantic market.” It illustrates the huge market there is for the unique Irish tourism product on this side of the island. Said Matthew Thomas CEO, Shannon Group: “We are delighted to have eight services to seven airports on the US east coast. It proves the Airport’s importance as a driving force for growth and creates fantastic opportunities for the business and leisure industry along the Wild Atlantic Way. This expanded service is the result of a close collaboration involving a dedicated team of Shannon Airport and Norwegian Air International. ![]() We look forward to working closely with Norwegian to ensure the success of the expanded service. It clearly demonstrates Norwegian’s commitment to Shannon and will bring our transatlantic capacity to 565,000 seats.” Welcoming the announcement Andrew Murphy, Managing Director, Shannon Airport said: “This expanded service will give our passengers more choice and opens up exciting opportunities for Irish people to explore amazing parts of the States and for more US visitors to explore our Wild Atlantic Way. With six airlines operating to seven destinations, Shannon now has its largest number of US services in over 17 years. The increased capacity creates a major transatlantic line-up from Shannon Airport. The news of the move to a daily service further strengthens Shannon’s long-haul connectivity and its position as an important transatlantic gateway. In January the airline announced that it would increase its New York service from two a week from the previous winter. There is further good news for Shannon airport. The airline, which began services at Shannon in July 2017, is increasing its New York Stewart International Airport to a daily service. This announcement, which follows last week’s announcement by, means that Shannon Airport now has two year-round services to New York. Norwegian Airlines launching its first year-round Shannon New York service which will be fully operative in 2019. Such connectivity to the Mid-West Region through Shannon Airport is vital to Foreign Direct Investment, trade and the expansion of our indigenous companies.” With 40% of US foreign direct investment in Ireland within Shannon’s catchment area, this is great news for our business community, and makes our region much more attractive for future US FDI.”Ĭommenting on the announcement Andrew Murphy, Managing Director, Shannon Airport said: “We welcome the decision by Aer Lingus to restore it year-round New York service which will benefit the business community and leisure travellers who will have more options to avail of onward connections to over 90 destinations at the JFK airport, JetBlue’s largest hub airport.”ĭescribing the Shannon New York JFK service as an “economically strategic connection”, Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market & Data Protection, Pat Breen TD said, “This decision by Aer Lingus ensures Shannon has year-round connectivity to a key Hub with more than 90 connections. Shannon is set to operate it largest Transatlantic service in 17 years with eight transatlantic services operated by six different carriers across seven destinations from Shannon in 2018.Ĭommenting on the announcement Matthew Thomas, Shannon Group CEO said: “We are delighted that Aer Lingus will be operating a Shannon New York service year-round in 2019. Shannon Airport has welcomed the announcement by Aer Lingus that its Shannon New York JFK service will operate year-round in 2019. Shannon Airport has new Shannon New York services with Aer Lingus and Norwegian Air ![]() Great news has been announced by Shannon Airport that Aer Lingus will soon be operating the Shannon New York service all year-round by 2019.
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