Shannon stopover

noun

A compulsory stopover at Shannon Airport that was imposed on airline flights from North America which intended to visit another airport in the Republic of Ireland (such as Dublin), which applied to all flights from 1986 to 1993, then half of all flights until its abolition in 2007.

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Meanings

nounShannon stopover (plural Shannon stopovers)

plural Shannon stopovers

  1. IrelandhistoricalaeronauticsA compulsory stopover at Shannon Airport that was imposed on airline flights from North America which intended to visit another airport in the Republic of Ireland (such as Dublin), which applied to all flights from 1986 to 1993, then half of all flights until its abolition in 2007.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Shannon, stopover.

Origin

From Shannon + stopover.

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Shannon stopover. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shannon%20stopover

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Chicago

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