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Landing Gear Fire Forces Temporary Flight Suspension at Shannon Airport

All flights were temporarily suspended at Shannon Airport earlier this morning following an incident on the runway involving an Omni Air Internation Boeing 767-300 Aircraft. The incident was believed to be a landing gear fire. Emergency Services were in attendance and all passengers and crew disembarked as all airport operations were suspended. Airport personnel worked […]

New pre-clearance checkpoint to be trialled at Shannon Airport

Shannon Airport in Ireland has become the first airport in the world to trial a new pre-clearance concept developed as part of the European Union’s (EU) XP-DITE initiative. The XP-DITE project aims to create more efficient security checkpoints at European airports, in this case by combining the European and US pre-clearance checkpoints in use at […]