SHANNON Airport is celebrating a record-breaking year for 2025 attracting 2.3 million passengers and over €20m in investment.
The Shannon Airport Group finished out the year with the highest number of passenger activity in 16 years, up nine per cent on 2024, marking a year of major investment, new routes, and industry awards recognition.
This year, Shannon Airport plan to operate 40 routes to destinations across Europe, the US, and the UK, including new routes in the summer schedule to Rome, Warsaw, Madrid, and Poznan (Ryanair) and Frankfurt with Lufthansa Group subsidiary Discover Airlines.
Increased frequencies on existing services such as Aer Lingus’ Boston route are also confirmed.
Interim CEO of The Shannon Airport Group, Ray O’Driscoll, said that “2025 was a really positive year for The Shannon Airport Group. We achieved our highest passenger numbers in over 16 years and invested over €20million in projects that have a very tangible benefit to both passengers and our sustainability goals. This brought our overall investment in the Group to almost €200million in just over a decade.”
Plans are also in place for over €40m in investment for 2026, including a full upgrade of the airport’s immigration and baggage halls, upgraded taxiways, and a new thermal wrap of the external arrivals area of the airport terminal.
Passenger growth in 2025 was assisted by new routes and expanded services. Ryanair added a fourth based aircraft to Shannon, representing an additional $100million investment in the region, announced new destinations including Madeira, Lapland, and Madrid, and increased frequencies on over 10 popular routes.
Shannon Airport also launched Ireland’s first airfield solar PV farm in 2025 which is set to generate up to 20 per cent of the airport’s electricity needs.
1,000 new passenger car spaces were created, now bringing over 5,600 spaces on offer across five short-stay and long-stay car parks which generated 200,000 cars parked in 2025.
Celebrations were aplenty throughout the year including marking 80 years since the first scheduled, commercial, transatlantic passenger flight from the US to Europe which landed in Shannon in October 1945.
2026 will also see the construction of Blocks Y and Z at the Shannon Airport Business Park, two cutting-edge industrial units, adding a combined 100,000 square foot of energy-efficient space.