Editing Shannon Airport (section)

=== Aeroflot service ===
[[Aeroflot]] began service to Shannon in September 1975 as a stop between the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc countries, such as Cuba and Angola. Aeroflot kept its own fuel storage at Shannon and allowed the airport to sell the Soviet fuel to other airlines.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aeroflot | date=18 March 2012 |url=http://overtakenbyevents.eu/?tag=aeroflot|access-date=2021-04-16|language=en-GB|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416161351/http://overtakenbyevents.eu/?tag=aeroflot|url-status=live}}</ref>

The United States demanded that Ireland suspend Aeroflot's Shannon operations following the shooting down of [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007]] in 1983, and Ireland temporarily banned Aeroflot later that year.<ref>{{cite web|last=Carty|first=Ed|date=2013-12-30|title=Aeroflot banned from Shannon as world on verge of nuclear war|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20253742.html|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Irish Examiner|language=en|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416161351/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20253742.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Nonetheless, the Aeroflot operation returned and developed into a hub by the mid-1990s, with flights to New York, Chicago, Washington, Miami, and Havana, largely using [[Ilyushin Il-62]] aircraft.<ref>{{cite web|last=|title=Shannon shakeup|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/shannon-shakeup/7444.article|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Flight Global|language=en|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416161349/https://www.flightglobal.com/shannon-shakeup/7444.article}}</ref>

The cooperation between Aeroflot and Aer Rianta at Shannon also led to a joint venture between the two companies to open duty-free shops at [[Sheremetyevo International Airport|Sheremetyevo Airport]] in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|date=2019-09-14|title=Michael Guerin, Boris Krivchenko and "Aeroflot" in Shannon Airport - a relationship built on trust|url=https://www.russianireland.com/en/michael-guerin/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=russianireland.com|language=en-GB|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416162854/https://www.russianireland.com/en/michael-guerin/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 30 September 1994, Shannon was the site of the "[[Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident|circling over Shannon]]" diplomatic incident involving Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]].