Originally Posted by
Nightbus to Dalson
I have seen US troops on a few occasions in SNN.
I understand that they are usually going from the Gulf to ATL & that SNN is the most adequate runway so far west for the large military planes. The US have been using that location for donkeys years.
They stroll about buying gifts etc in the duty free shop like bored housewives.
I don't think there's anything unusually large about most of the US troopers - it's probably more a range issue as they're running old clunkers like 767-200's from places like Kuwait to Kansas and Texas so they're almost certainly going to have to refuel somewhere.
IIRC didn't/doesn't SNN have Delta flights to the US in additional to the CO/UA flights mentioned before, plus I seem to vaguely remember a route like DUB-ORD-SNN-DUB, or was it to BOS? I can't remember if that was EI or AA?