Passenger figures look set to jump almost 8% this Bank Holiday weekend as more airlines commenced their summer schedules.

A transatlantic flight has diverted to Shannon Airport after a crew member was reported to have fallen ill.

A transatlantic jet has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport this afternoon.

Shannon Airport welcomed return of two popular services which have been reintroduced by Ryanair.

Shannon remains the state’s busiest airport for unscheduled landings and aircraft emergencies even though the number of planes diverting last year dropped slightly.

Summer has begun for outbound holiday makers from Shannon for sure with the launch today of its new service to one of Europe’s favourite sun destinations – the Barcelona region of Spain.

Shannon Airport was the staging ground yesterday for a major simulated multi-agency armed incident.

Shannon based aviation training school Atlantic Aviation Institute (AAI), which is a subsidiary of Atlantic Aviation Group, and the University of Limerick (UL) has this week announced a new partnership which will see the launch of a new EASA Part 21 Design Engineering postgraduate module (accredited at Level 9, 6 ECTS).