Blue-sky thinking needed to secure airport’s future

Ryanair, US routes and independence from Dublin are all key issues for the airport’s survival, writes Seán McCárthaigh.

A CityJet executive told TDs: ‘When we mentioned Shannon Airport to our colleagues in Air France, they did not know where it was. They looked up Shannon on the internet and asked if I was mad because nobody lives there.’ Picture: Press 22

ONCE the darling of the Irish aviation industry through its international reputation as a strategic transatlantic hub since the 1940s, Shannon Airport finds itself at a very different type of crossroads in 2008.