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Military Use of Shannon Airport

Approximately 3 U.S. military flights go through Shannon Airport every day. These include U.S. troop carriers, U.S. Air Force and Navy planes (C-130 Hercules, in-flight refueling aircraft, executive jets, Boeing 737’s, etc.) and U.S. military contracted cargo planes (Evergreen International, Kalitta Air, Murray Air)

Monthly summaries of military traffic through Shannon

2012 2011 2010 2009

U.S. Troops Passing Through Shannon 2002-2011

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YEAR	TOTAL
2002	73,000
2003	122,000
2004	159,000
2005	341,000
2006	281,000
2007	263,000
2008	256,000
2009	265,000
2010	229,000
2011	250,000

These figures show that there have been on average more than 600 foreign troops a day passing through Shannon since 2003.

Permits Issued to Carry Munitions of War through Ireland or Irish Airspace

The vast majority of permit requests were from American civil airlines, chartered by the US military.

YEAR	NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS MADE	NUMBER OF PERMITS ISSUED
2007	1517	1495
2008	1387	1359
2009	1306	1276
2010	1352	1307
2011	1393	1382

Shannon Airport has been used by the US military on their way to/from Iraq and Afghanistan for almost a decade. It has also operated as a stopover point for CIA rendition planes. All this came about without the permission of the Irish people. Now we are all complicit in gross violations of human rights, the killing of innocent civilians, and unending cycles of suffering for millions of people.