Aer Lingus Regional is to create 20 new jobs at Shannon Airport. The airline has announced a new daily service to Bristol, and is also to double capacity on Birmingham and Manchester routes to the UK.

It hopes to add an extra 100,000 passengers at Shannon by the end of next year. The airline says today announcement is directly related to the scrapping of the travel tax.

It also means that daily services to Shannon Airport will be tripled.

Aer Lingus Regional - which is operated by Aer Arann - will operate the new daily Bristol service from next summer, have three daily services on Manchester and double its existing daily Birmingham flight.

The increase in capacity is hoped to develop a new Shannon stop-over concept thanks to US preclearance available at the airport.

Shannon in 2009 became the first airport outside of the Americas itself to have full preclearance.

The extra services will enable passengers link-up with the other transatlantic services at Shannon. Shannon Airport had five US destinations this year, - to Boston, Chicago, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia.

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