The Shannon Airport Group has reported a record-breaking year, with more than 2.3 million passengers travelling through its terminal in 2025, the highest number in 16 years, and 9% up on 2024.
This increase in passenger numbers came during a year of major investment, new routes, and industry awards recognition.
Shannon Airport will operate 40 routes in 2026 to destinations across Europe, the US and UK. This includes five new routes in the summer schedule – Rome, Warsaw, Madrid and Poznan with Ryanair, and Frankfurt with Discover Airlines, a Lufthansa Group subsidiary – together with increased frequencies on existing services, including Aer Lingus’ Boston route.
Plans are also in place for over €40 million in investment this year, with projects 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 which will be key to helping the Group reach its energy efficiency targets into the future.
Speaking today Interim CEO of The Shannon Airport Group, Ray O’Driscoll said: “2025 was a really positive year for The Shannon Airport Group. We achieved our highest passenger numbers in over 16 years and invested over €20 million 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 €200 million in just over a decade. We’re looking forward to an even more ambitious 2026, during which passengers will have the choice of 40 routes, the highest number operating from Shannon Airport in 17 years.”
Passenger growth in 2025 was assisted by new routes and expanded services. Ryanair added a fourth based aircraft to Shannon, representing an additional $100 million investment in the region, announced new destinations including Madeira, Lapland and Madrid, and increased frequencies on over 10 popular routes.
Growth for the Group wasn’t just in the air, however, it was also on the ground as 2025 saw the completion of significant sustainability and infrastructure projects, including:
· The launch of Ireland’s first airfield solar PV farm, set to generate up to 20% of the airport’s electricity needs. This was another step forward in the Group’s sustainability journey which also saw improved operational controls and energy management systems.
· 1,000 new passenger car park spaces created, bringing to over 5,600 the total number of spaces on offer at Shannon Airport, across 5 short-stay and long-stay car parks, in which over 200,000 cars parked in 2025.
· An expansion of the airport’s existing European passenger boarding gates.
