Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner
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They would give up Baldonnel only if ordered to do so on pain of death, as it is convenient for the Curragh and realistically, the greater mass of the Donners live in Greater Dublin, so if you did displace the Don, the whinging would be appalling, not to mind the social cost.
The AC is about 15% below its (already not high enough) establishment. I very much doubt telling the 700 or so people that there jobs are moving across the country will aid retention.
As for access to training areas, that is not an issue as the Midlands training areas are equally accessable from the other side, ie, from Shannon. In effect, they go where they like anyway.
I'm not saying moving the AC to Shannon would not mean new restricted airspace and MOAs, I'm saying that there is a "commute" from Shannon to the MOAs.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2.../made/en/print (See map at bottom of the link)
Dev, if you did deploy a Casa to Shannon permanently, you'll find no shortage of technical talent there. I'm sure they'd be able to mind a little old Casa.
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