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Passenger Numbers At Shannon Airport Soar By 300% In 2022

Passenger numbers at Shannon Airport shot up by 300 per cent last year, compared with 2021.

Over 1.5 million people passed through the airport last year, just shy of pre-pandemic numbers from 2019.

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More than 630,000 of those were heading to, or arriving from, the UK.

 

Almost a quarter of a million passengers were counted on Boston, Newark and New York JFK services.

Commenting on the outlook for this year, CEO of the Shannon Airport Group, Mary Considine said: “Prospects at Shannon look bright for 2023 and this year we will operate 35 routes. Last year we secured four new services to Barcelona/Girona, Marseille, Malta, and a service to Paris with new airline partner, Vueling. We are delighted to be giving our customers more destinations to choose from, in fact we will have more routes this year than we did in 2019, with six brand new destinations. These six new services are to Naples, Beziers, Newcastle, Porto, Liverpool, while our transatlantic services will be enhanced with the with addition of Chicago.

“These new services, combined with initiatives like Ryanair’s €10 million investment in their maintenance facility at Shannon, and the delivery of our property investment strategy across the Shannon Campus, have cemented the upward trajectory of our recovery.”

 

Speaking about the company’s new sustainability strategy, Ms. Considine said: “At the Shannon Airport Group, we know that our activities and our airport operation in particular are important to our community and stakeholders. They provide a key engine that fuels economic wellbeing for our region and beyond.

“Embedding sustainability was a key focus for the Group in 2022 and we delivered a number of programmes, from employee wellbeing and CSR to energy saving, carbon reduction and recycling initiatives. We are proud to have become the first WHO designated Age Friendly airport in the world, along with Ireland West airport (Knock).

“We are committed to working with industry partners on creating a more sustainable future and last year we signed an MoU with the ESB to explore the development of a sustainable green hydrogen plant at Shannon.

“When the airport performs well, so too does the regional economy. We are committed to working with our partners to explore all opportunities to make our region a place where people will want to live, work, learn and visit.”

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