Shannon airport: passengers, flights and destinations

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Passengers and flights by year

Year	Passengers (000s)	Commercial flights (000s)	Freight (000 tonnes)
2025	2,239.7	16.1	16.0
2024	2,050.8	14.8	16.6
2023	1,897.6	15.0	16.8
2022	1,422.0	12.0	17.2
2021	322.2	4.8	15.9
2020	273.9	4.5	15.5
2019	1,616.4	13.2	12.7
2018	1,677.7	13.7	13.6
2017	1,599.4	13.2	19.0
2016	1,674.6	13.6	12.6
2015	1,642.9	13.3	12.2
2014	1,555.2	15.6	10.9
2013	1,308.2	12.6	13.9
2012	1,286.1	12.7	16.1
2011	1,364.8	13.6	16.6
2010	1,531.3	13.4	20.0
2009	2,579.7	21.2	18.9
2008	2,956.3	25.0	23.2
2007	3,524.5	26.7	27.0
2006	3,690.9	27.1	31.1
2005	3,268.3	25.1	29.3

Peak year: 2006 (3.7 million passengers). Series stitched from CSO tables TAA01 (2005–2012), TAA03 (2013–2019) and TAA06 (2020–2025); where the tables overlap their passenger figures agree to within 0.5%. See how we calculate.

Scheduled vs unscheduled, arrivals vs departures

	Passengers (000s)	Commercial flights (000s)	Share of passengers
Scheduled	2,187.0	15.6	97.6%
Unscheduled	52.7	0.5	2.4%
Arrivals	1,123.9	8.1
Departures	1,115.7	8.0

Where Shannon flights go

Rank	Country	Passengers (000s)	Flights (000s)	Share
1	United Kingdom	909.9	6.2	40.6%
2	United States	334.2	2.3	14.9%
3	Spain	318.6	1.9	14.2%
4	Poland	154.1	0.9	6.9%
5	Portugal	108.1	0.6	4.8%
6	Lithuania	53.8	0.3	2.4%
7	France	45.2	0.3	2%
8	Hungary	36.8	0.2	1.6%
9	Italy	27.7	0.2	1.2%
10	Malta	21.5	0.1	1%
11	Greece	14.7	0.1	0.7%
12	Finland	5.8	0.0	0.3%

Countries with 1,000+ passengers in 2025, arrivals and departures combined. Regional aggregates and the UK's constituent nations are excluded to avoid double counting. Linked countries have their own page.

Monthly passengers, last 24 months

Month	Passengers
2026 June	265,104
2026 May	242,836
2026 April	220,714
2026 March	168,955
2026 February	127,186
2026 January	131,514
2025 December	157,819
2025 November	143,161
2025 October	203,392
2025 September	210,724
2025 August	254,703
2025 July	251,252
2025 June	232,085
2025 May	207,338
2025 April	194,076
2025 March	147,298
2025 February	119,911
2025 January	117,909
2024 December	142,612
2024 November	134,618
2024 October	185,302
2024 September	190,359
2024 August	231,125
2024 July	220,956

CSO table TAM08, up to 2026 June (the most recent months are provisional). Busiest month of 2025: 2025 August (254,703).

Most common aircraft at Shannon airport, 2021

Aircraft	Commercial flights (000s)
Boeing 737-800	2.4
Boeing 767-300	0.6
Boeing 737-400	0.5
ATR 72	0.3
Airbus A300-600	0.2

CSO's aircraft-type table (TAA04) stops at 2021, so this is a pandemic-era snapshot rather than today's fleet. Catch-all "other makes" is excluded.

Source: Central Statistics Office, Aviation Statistics, CC BY 4.0. Passenger and flight figures are published in thousands to one decimal place.