Shannon Airport launches its summer 2013 schedule

Courtesy Google The summer officially began for the newly independent Shannon Airport over the May bank holiday weekend with five new services across US, UK and Europe and 33-destinations in-all this year from Shannon, the airport is targeting the transatlantic market for significant growth as it secures five US services for the first time in five years. In all, 33 separate destinations will be served this summer from Shannon. Among these are five new services - two in the US (Chicago and Philadelphia), two in mainland Europe (Alicante and Faro) and one in the UK (Glasgow). A total of 19 European routes will operate in the summer with passenger numbers on European services are this year expected to increase by 10% thanks to new services and 8 UK routes will operate. The transatlantic market is showing the sharpest recovery, with the airport this year offering five US destinations (Boston, Chicago, Newark, JFK New York