Waterford Airport.

I don't see the relevance in Waterford is closer to London than cork, shannon or knock.

The fact is people from those areas are not going to chose Waterford over what is closer to them.

Airlines also won't decide, let's place a plane in Waterford a pull out of any of the airports mentioned.

Airlines will fly from where the demand is and where they can make profit, they'll offset the fuel costs onto the passenger, not even sure why people are having this argument.

Heck of we went down that road we could be arguing that Waterford is closer to London than. JFK New York.

Why do you even have to ask that question... you know they'll be there.

Sod turning planned for 18th May

Sod turning…stop digging a hole…Freudian slip?

That would be nice.

That is embarressing... wow…🫣

"Outsiders" cannot have opinion on a waterford airport , but youd expect those 'outsiders' to come support 'your' airport ???

And what exactly did you add to this topic may I add..absolutely 100%nada just a moan

Yawn

To be fair, there is something ironically humourous about someone attacking posters as outsiders in a thread about - of all things - an airport!

You're obviously going to encounter all sorts of people on a message board like boards, but the poster "Bards" does seem to be a particularly unnecessarily aggressive sort. I feel a bit sorry for him if he's capable of being wound up to this extent about a local airport.

No doubt our local reps will be there for the photo opportunity

"Of all things - an airport" says the fella who can't see the irony in this statement, the same fella who gets wound up when whenever there is a bit of positivity on the airport's future, who swoops into to piss all over that positivity and to put us down here back in our box, to know how place and not be getting notions!

It's not airport versus airport he said to me recently when I called out just how similar his own beloved Knock situation was when the sod was turned. Raised eyebrows, people saying it was madness, and they were right for about the first 20 years, 1 flight a day, heavily subsidised by the taxpayer!! He won't admit it was a failure for 20 years and was lucky the plug was'nt pulled on it! And he will argue the geographical area is totally different, and he is right, it is. The South East population is bigger and have more alternative options available, but that doesn't mean the airport here won't find a successful market, maybe it too will have to limp along from a passenger point with a handful of flights for a few years, but as time passes and the population of the region continues to grow it will become more and viable, just like Knock! And as I've said before here passenger flights are not the primary focus of the investors.

He's is right, the irony is humourous, but it is on him! For Cosmo, airport v airport is exactly the crux of his issue, whereas we hold no grudge against Knock and many posters have wished it well, Cosmo treats airports like football teams and he desperetly does'nt want Waterford moving up to the same league as his airport! It's sad I know, and he will refute it and laugh it off but lets call a spade a spade, that is exactly why he comes on to this tread continously no matter how he tries to dress it up!

For the naysayers, work progresses quitely...

Sorry, but that post contains nothing other than parochial nonsense from start to finish. As soon as people start banging on about Knock on here, then I know straight away that they're not posting in good faith. I've said on many occasions that Knock and Waterford are completely different cases, obviously aren't in competition with each other for passengers and that Knock is irrelevant to the discussions on this thread. It's telling that it's others posters that keep bringing Knock up whenever I post, a real small time attitude if there ever was one. Sad to see and perhaps indicative of some wider issues in the region that seem to crop up again and again.

The Munster Express article is interesting. It's especially interesting that all those small shareholders have given up their shares to a billionaire for free, with no guarantee of ongoing funding of commercial services included in the deal. Clearly the billionaire has been given everything that he wants, it has all been handed to him on a plate.

The local shareholders, on the other hand, are just left to wait and hope that they've done the right thing. If he builds the runway and just uses it as an airfield for private jets without any commercial services to the general public, they have absolutely no clawback. If a few services run for a short time period and fail again, they have no clawback. An incredible situation really.