Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:37

Shannon Airport is in line for a significant boost if British Airways (BA) goes ahead with plans to further expand its popular transatlantic business class only service to other US cities. BA has been looking at expanding the number of flights it operates from London City Airport following the success of its New York JFK business class service which makes a stop at Shannon to refuel and avail of U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities. A BA spokesman said yesterday: "We had always said that we hoped the service would be profitable by the end of the first year. The service has performed better than we expected and the response has been extremely good. Our CEO Willie Walsh has said he would like to look at the possibility of extending the service to Boston and Washington DC but it has to be looked at yet. If we do, we will probably go through Shannon because the whole service there is unique in several ways," he said.

Pat Flynn

Above: BA chief executive Willie Walsh at the opening of the US customs facility in Shannon

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