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What is your view on Knock Airport charging everyone a tenner to leave it?

Andy From Sligo

Well when you depart Knock International cowshed ... sorry I mean Airport (or Wesht of Ireland airport or whatever its called these days) they charge you €10 before you go to departure lounge, done it for years (think it started off as a fiver though) - they say its "A Development fee" - heard a few people kick up about it at the airport mainly because as it comes as a surprise to most that they have to pay it I think and are resentful of it. one bloke once paid it all in coins after a moan about it one when we was there.

So what do you think, should they do it? - should they pass it onto the airlines or duty free or recoup it some other way?

Does any other airport in europe (or even the world) do this does anyone know?

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corsav6

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Well when you depart Knock International cowshed ... sorry I mean Airport (or Wesht of Ireland airport or whatever its called these days) they charge you €10 before you go to departure lounge, done it for years (think it started off as a fiver though) - they say its "A Development fee" - heard a few people kick up about it at the airport mainly because as it comes as a surprise to most that they have to pay it I think and are resentful of it. one bloke once paid it all in coins after a moan about it one when we was there.

So what do you think, should they do it? - should they pass it onto the airlines or duty free or recoup it some other way?

Does any other airport in europe (or even the world) do this does anyone know?

Well if you don't like the "cowshed" then why don't you commute from your local airport? I'm sure there's plenty of routes available from Sligo airport.

ratracer

I know it doesn't make any commercial sense, but this 'development' fee at knock airport is the main reason I have never flown out of there. I live in Galway but would choose to pay the diesel costs to drive to Dublin or Cork airport rather than go through the foggy boggy mountain. I won't even consider looking for a flight out of there!!

flazio

Ireland West Airport.
Don't Knock it until you try it.

ardle1

Knock Knock!

Donkey Oaty

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

I know they do this in Blackpool, in the UK too. Wonder what'd happen if you said you didn't have it? Would you be like Tom Hanks in that film..

Kidnapped by Somali pirates? :eek:

Pay the tenner, folks!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I know they do this in Blackpool, in the UK too. Wonder what'd happen if you said you didn't have it? Would you be like Tom Hanks in that film..

flazio

I suspect the reason it's done this way is accounting.
The €10 loses value the longer the airline takes to repay the airport, and if the airport puts pressure on the airline to pay up, they my just pull out.
Doing it this way means the money is straight into the coffers that day and makes the book balancing much easier.

Larianne

Knock is a great little airport. No long queues, car park RIGHT beside the terminal, handy if you live in Mayo/Sligo/Galway region. A tenner is well worth it, considering the petrol money & money for parking & the queues if leaving from Dublin airport (never been to Shannon myself).

Donkey Oaty

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Most other airports (apparently) include it in the fare.

In reality, it means "pass it on to the airlines while negotiating landing/facilities fees, who then include it in the fare".

Have a nice day

It's a very relaxing airport unlike every other airport in the world.

Andy From Sligo

veryangryman wrote: »

Newquay. Few other small regionals. Kind of like toll roads. You can use the alternatives but your paying for the convenience

I suppose you have a point, i mean for people in the west, it could be saving them travelling to Dublin airport - and on train it could cost u €40 on train to get from Sligo to Dublin airport .... so €10 is a bargain i suppose in that respect

ScumLord

It's worth ten euro to avoid Driving to Dublin, paying tolls, paying for a bus or parking, dealing with Dublin traffic.. Lovely handy little airport that's easy to get to for us muck savages, it's got a wonderful view and you get a wave from mary every time you take off.

Mint Sauce

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Well when you depart Knock International cowshed ... sorry I mean Airport (or Wesht of Ireland airport or whatever its called these days) they charge you €10 before you go to departure lounge, done it for years (think it started off as a fiver though) - they say its "A Development fee" - heard a few people kick up about it at the airport mainly because as it comes as a surprise to most that they have to pay it I think and are resentful of it. one bloke once paid it all in coins after a moan about it one when we was there.

So what do you think, should they do it? - should they pass it onto the airlines or duty free or recoup it some other way?

Does any other airport in europe (or even the world) do this does anyone know?

Most other airports (apparently) include it in the fare.

jt69er

Fly from somewhere else if you don't like it

veryangryman

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Well when you depart Knock International cowshed ... sorry I mean Airport (or Wesht of Ireland airport or whatever its called these days) they charge you €10 before you go to departure lounge, done it for years (think it started off as a fiver though) - they say its "A Development fee" - heard a few people kick up about it at the airport mainly because as it comes as a surprise to most that they have to pay it I think and are resentful of it. one bloke once paid it all in coins after a moan about it one when we was there.

So what do you think, should they do it? - should they pass it onto the airlines or duty free or recoup it some other way?

Does any other airport in europe (or even the world) do this does anyone know?

Newquay. Few other small regionals. Kind of like toll roads. You can use the alternatives but your paying for the convenience