TNT halt Shannon flights ?

It would appear that TNT express have ceased operating out of Shannon airport. There has been no nightly Shannon - Liege flight since Monday last May 18. The Dutch freight and mail service provider seems to have been particularly badly hit by the economic downturn and recently announced a worse than expected profit for Q1 of this year. The company recently announced that it was closing it's aircraft maintenance facility at Stansted airport with the loss of 90 jobs. Aircraft maintenance for the European fleet is to be relocated to Liege in Belgium by the end of this year. Last year the company dropped Cork off the shared Shannon-Cork air route. This year has already seen several changes to aircraft capacity on the Shannon route but it would now appear that the nightly service has finally been dropped.

Pictured above in the copyright picture by Michael Kelly taken last month, TNT A300 EC-HVZ, msn 227, a frequent visitor to Ireland, is seen in storage at Mojave in the California desert where more TNT aircraft are expected in the not too distant future.