Shannon Airport is facing the loss of two stopovers following the news that Ryanair is cutting flights there next summer.

British Airways is cancelling one of two all-business-class services from London City Airport to New York-JFK that stop at Shannon for refuelling.

A recent deal with Kuwait Airways, under which the Middle Eastern carrier stopped at the Irish airport to allow passenger and baggage screening, could end after next month.

The news comes after it emerged that Ryanair will not be renewing a number of services axed or reduced in winter 2016/2017

in next year’s summer schedule, cutting its traffic at Shannon from just under 800,000 passengers annually to 720,000.

The airline will renew its services between Shannon and Paris Beauvais and Memmigen in Germany next summer, while it will cut back on London Stansted and Manchester.

Shannon confirmed at the weekend that it would lose the British Airways and Kuwaiti stopovers.