Gatwick to Shannon Airport flights Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus start a daily route Shannon Airport to London Gatwick airport from March 27th
The service will originate in Gatwick with a 6.50 a.m. departure and will be the earliest daily London service to Shannon, arriving at 8.15 am. The return-leg from Shannon departs at 9 a.m., arriving in Gatwick at 10.25. Bookings for the flight can be made from today on the Aer Lingus website www.aerlingus.com.
The new route will commence on March 27, with flight EI917 departing Gatwick at 0650 and arriving in Shannon at 0815. The return leg EI916 will leave Shannon at 0900, landing back in London at 1025.

The new service means Aer Lingus will offer a total of four daily flights between London and Shannon, with three existing services departing Heathrow at 0950, 1450 and 1925. Ryanair currently serves Shannon from both Gatwick (a six-times weekly lunchtime service) and Stansted (a morning weekday flight and a daily evening service).
The new Gatwick service is an excellent start to the New Year for Shannon and is something we have been working with Aer Lingus on during recent months. For Aer Lingus to add Gatwick, not least with its early arrival time at Shannon, to its growing network of services is a real boost for us and, indeed, the greater West of Ireland region. Gatwick is Britain’s second largest airport, serving more than 200 destinations in 90 countries across short and long-haul point-to-point services so this is very significant from a connectivity point of view.

“In addition, we were delighted to see Ryanair last month announce the establishment of a new Fuerteventura service from February as well as reinstate Nantes, Malaga and Palma-Mallorca services. On top of all this, we also have the new incentive scheme launched by the DAA in December for all three state airports, which will see passenger charges waived once an overall threshold for the airports of 23.5 million passengers is reached. We believe that this will be a key incentive for airlines to expand their services and this can only be good for Shannon and, indeed, for the region if targets are reached.”