In the late 19 fifties, a leap in aviation technology threatened to undermine everything that o'regan and his team at shannon had built. The very thing that created the airport was about to render it obsolete. Without passengers in airport cannot survive. It has no functions. Starting in 19 58, the same year bowing's first mass produced passenger jet whent into service, passenger traffic at shannon began to plum it. And i got to say, of all the tape id listened to of brennon o'regan, this was the one moment in the whole saga when, looking back, he sounds genuinely rattled. There was a continuous ward being passed on, we are going
On the west coast of Ireland, on the banks of an estuary dividing county Limerick from county Clare, lies a small town called Shannon. But Shannon is not a quaint fishing village or farming community. Its industry is its airport. And Shannon Airport is big. It handles up to 1.7 million passengers and 20,000 flights a year, most of them from other countries. It looks like a cosmopolitan international airport, but it has a unique claim to fame: the world's first airport duty-free store.
Today, the store has what you would expect -- designer perfumes, jewelry and various fine foods, with a lot of local (in this case Irish) products in particular. But like the area around the airport, the shop started out small, with a local boy from the area who would go on to change the world of tax-free commerce in and beyond Shannon.
Call of Duty: Free