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SOME good news for Clare arrived on Wednesday with the reopening of Shannon Airport to scheduled passenger flights. The first flight back was one from Vienna, while flights also caem from Manchester and Lanzarote. There were also return flights scheduled to the same destinations. Shannon had to introduce a range of anti Covid-19 measures to deal with the reopening, with more than 4,000 pieces of signage installed, along with multiple sanitiser dispensers, hand sanitation stations and disinfectant wipes throughout the airport. Ryanair has started 16 routes to and from Shannon, and while that is obviously welcome, it is also an illustration of how dependent the airport is on the low fares airline. This week there were reports that Ryanair has issued a memorandum to pilots, warning them that it could actually close its Shannon and Cork bases, if they don’t comply with a range of cost saving measures. Last year, it was forecast that around 775,000 Ryanair passengers would travel …
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