{"id":663703,"date":"2026-10-24T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663703\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:44:16","slug":"shannon-airport-beats-global-competition-in-prestigious-route-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663703\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Airport Beats Global Competition In Prestigious Route Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Airport has secured one of the aviation industry\u2019s most prestigious honours.<\/p>\n<p>The Clare-based airport has won the Under 5 Million Passengers category at the Routes World Awards 2026, beating competition from Bratislava, Cardiff, Cork and Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognises excellence in route development, airline partnerships and aviation marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon recorded a 12% increase in passenger numbers in the first half of 2026, with its network expanding to 40 services \u2014 the highest number in 17 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shannon Airport has secured one of the aviation industry\u2019s most prestigious honours. The Clare-based airport has won the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-663703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}