Stobart Air (Dublin International) is to resume flights out of Shannon just six months after it pulled the plug in early January of this year. The Limerick Leader reports Stobart Air will restart 6x weekly Aer Lingus Regional flights from Shannon to Birmingham, GB on June 18 but has denied it has plans to redevelop the western Irish airport into a base once more.
“The original decision to cease operations at Shannon Airport was a difficult but necessary one,” Ronan Whitty, head of Stobart Air revenue management, said. “The high cost of having aircraft based full-time at the airport made it more difficult to generate the necessary returns from our Shannon routes. Closing the base enabled us to consolidate our costs, and thereby look at Shannon from a different perspective. Now, it can work both for Shannon and our wider network."
For its part, Shannon Airport has welcomed the resumption of flights claiming them to be 'further validation of the market support for services to and from the airport.'
Until the beginning of the year, Stobart Air had also offered flights from Shannon to Edinburgh and Bristol International.
