The Americans have no plans to extend this facility to anywhere else.It's not like me to be cheery, but this is good news as long as Shannon can take advantage of it and as long as many other airports don't get the same facilities soon.
It will make it tough. They'll still get traffic ex-Dublin and hinterlands. They'll probably still get a certain amount of through traffic originating from the US also, but it will put a lot of pressure on any transit European traffic they have.This will surely be the death knell for AL services to the US ex Dublin.
Can Shannon take A380s?
Ah, so, if someone asks, they'll have them done in about a year or so!The A380 has been to Shannon for testing in the past. They wanted to test her performance in high winds!
The airbridges are not equipped for it yet though but I would imagine that they are planning to put them in as soon as is practical
Read in the papers at the weekend that Dublin is getting the same pre-clearance facilities about a year after Shannon - US has no plans to extend to other countries though.This will surely be the death knell for AL services to the US ex Dublin.
Payback for the US being allowed to use Shannon for military movements, and other stuff involving Iraq and extraordinary rendition??
Interesting....... hmmmmmm.
I think if any favors were going to be given surly they would be given to the UK who gave full support to the 'War on Terror' rather than Ireland who had a big problem letting a few flights land.
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