Tailfin From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2505 times:
Wow!
A big step from only one current scheduled service. But would be a money spinner I'm sure. There was an article about SI starting services some time in the "future" to South America from SNN also as a transit point for Aeroflot passengers from Moscow and greater Russia.
Tailfin From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2343 times:
Yeah, this posted on www.hangar.no on December 19th 2003 required my best Norwegian to dicipher service to "commence" May 15th...
Det private, irske selskapet SkyNet Airlines, som samarbeider nært med det russiske Aeroflot, planlegger nå å introdusere transatlantiske flygninger mellom Shannon i den vestlige del av Irland og Newark i New Jersey, nærmeste nabo til New York. SkyNet vil begynne omkring 15. mai, med Boeing 767-300ER, utstyrt med 250 seter.
Mcmahonsmr From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 318 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2231 times:
Interesting news....but SI have had some serious problems operating an on time schedule on the SNN-AMS-SVO route. They are going to need to clean up their act to make this a go...
RJ100 From Switzerland, joined Nov 2000, 4107 posts, RR: 32 Reply 6, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 2098 times:
I wish them good luck on the new route!
Is there a lot of demand from the Shannon/Limerick region to EWR or from EWR to SNN? Probably a lot of Americans are coming to visit their relatives in Ireland but are they able to fill the plane. I think they need to attract a lot of o&d traffic because I don't see people travelling from Moscow to EWR on Skynet simply because they stop in Amsterdam and then Shannon while there are direct flights from Russia to EWR...
Wow a 757 must be cool looking in the Skynet livery...
Styles From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 89 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1960 times:
Does anyone know if there is a press release for this in English yet? Also, any idea of start date and departure & arrival times, etc.
Afay1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 1293 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1923 times:
From the East Coast the only direct flights to Russia are from JFK on Aeroflot or Delta. Skynet is an Aeroflot subsidiary, probably designed to avoid Russian import tax on foreign airliners. It'd be cool if they can pull it off. I have only been on one roundtrip on Skynet (SVO-AMS-SVO) and the service was good. Plus, this route would integrate into the Aeroflot Bonus program and maybe into Skyteam in the future....
Tailfin From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 1858 times:
I imagine the current timetable will be amended as the flight from Moscow to Shannon arrives at almost 11pm a bit late for a transatlantic flight. The aircraft would also not be back in time for the departure next morning in SNN to SVO at 0920. SNN-SVO direct I presume. The SNN-AMS flight is now x3 weekly Feb/Mar.
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