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[Article] Booming airport targeted for €8m expansion plan

  • 22-03-2006 7:14am
    #1
    Victor
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    http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgNHgB5NU3UEosgdL11Zs5FWAE.asp
    Booming airport targeted for €8m expansion plan

    By Donal Hickey, Kerry
    KERRY Airport is set for major expansion, with an €8m investment needed to cater for at least a million passengers by 2011, it was revealed yesterday.

    The airport board has commissioned studies to find a site and design for a new terminal. Plans should be available this summer.

    The airport has become increasingly important to Kerry’s economy and directly employs 55 people.

    A further 70 people work for suppliers at the airport.

    Centrepiece of a 1994 expansion was a 2,000-metre runway to cater for jet aircraft with up to 229 passengers. The runway has a 10-year lifespan.

    Kerry County Council’s representative on the airport board, Fianna Fáil Councillor Anne McEllistrim yesterday said the runway had limited ability to handle transatlantic traffic with its current length.




    “The other barrier to growth is the size of arrivals baggage hall and departure gates. These were designed to handle 50-seat passenger aircraft whereas they handle, three times a day, more than 189 passengers,” she said.

    Last year, 450,000 passengers used the airport. It expects passengers to hit one million by 2011.

    The airport has flights to Dublin, London, Manchester and Frankfurt-Hahn. This year will see services to Lorient, Liverpool, Lanzarote and Stansted added.

    Based on Tourism Ireland figures, airport tourism traffic is generating e44m for the local economy.


Comments

  • #2
    Chris_533976
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    TBH I wonder why Cork deserves about 20 times this amount of money.


  • #3
    dmeehan
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    'bout time, the arrivals is a joke. if one of the ryanair flights are full, all of the passengers cannot actually physically fit into the baggage reclaim "hall"

    Also why does Councillor Anne McEllistrim mention the trans-atlantic thing? Is this some sort of holy grail for Regional airports? If they cannot get a charter service going from Cork (to New York) it is hardly going to generate enough interest from Kerry :rolleyes:


    And another thing, there have been flights operating to Stanstead for quite a few years already, not being introduced this year as the article says


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