Other airports pay for Shannon ‘soft landing’

THERE has been saturation coverage of Shannon airport in the national media for weeks now following Aer Lingus’s decision to end flights from there to Heathrow next January.

While the media circus following the announcement was entirely predictable, the sheer relentlessness of the Shannon public relations machine has been a revelation.

This is in stark contrast with the way other airports in the State have been treated by successive governments over the years.