08.13.07
Government spin on Shannon
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PO’Neill’s been deconstructing over at Irish Election.com.Yet again, the fault lays with under researched interviewers…
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ben said,
August 14, 2007 at 5:30 am
Oh, bloody hell. Can’t a company make a simple business decision without a month of national weeping and hand-wringing and maundering and a statement from the stupid bishops?
Billy Waters said,
August 14, 2007 at 11:01 am
Surely we can wean ourselves off Heathrow. Its a nightmare of an airport to navigate and connecting through Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt are far better options.
I have connected through Amsterdam and Frankfurt and never bothered through Heathrow. I have sat on an Aer Lingus plane waiting for an hour to take off from Heathrow between the gate and the runway. Heathrow is not a place that someone would choose to spend time.
Shannon connects to Charles DeGaulle , Schiphol, and Frankfurt and three other London airports. What more do these people want? A connection to Cape Canaveral so they can connect with the Space Shuttle?
Aer Lingus are not the only people with planes. Why are these people whining and moaning when it is almost impossible to get public transport to the airport and if you work in an industrial estate and live in a newly built estate your chances of getting to work without a car are as slim as winning the Lotto.
JFK-FRA-SNN
JFK-CDG-SNN
JFK–AMS-SNN
What is the difference apart from connecting in a different country? Unless you have airmiles on British Airways or Virgin Atlantic who cares what European airport you connect out of.
Just try to get from Ennis to Shannon Airport as a tourist. Or Galway or Limerick. Even Dublin is difficult to get to and I live three miles from it.
If the debate is about access to places the focus needs to start closer to home and get people from where they live to places they want to go.
Government support for the region in a modern country would be going towards increasing access to more of the population to places like Shannon and Limerick and other towns with each other. Access to broadband and information services too would help. Positive steps rather than screaming like a stuck pig and predicting the end of the world ever single time Aer Lingus makes any kind of change.
The strike is nonsense and a reason to look for alternate connections in and out of Ireland. We cannot have an airline or its staff holding us to ransom by striking every time management clears its throat.