Waterford Airport.

dzilla wrote: »

People are serious about the airport. The airport is being prepped for runway expansion, land around it has been acquired and areas cleared with fencing erected.

The loads on London and Manchester routes where good it was just circumstance that the routes where lost unfortunately.

The airport is limited that it can only attract turbo prop planes, such as Flybe, Stobart and CityJet... In time with the runway extension jets will be catered for allowing more airlines.

Am I right to believe that there is no schedule/deadline on this at the moment?

Well poo to that.
What have they said it will cost?
(Although if land has already been acquired etc then money's already been spent of course...)

dzilla wrote: »

850k i believe.

:eek:

I'm betting the amount of money spent on Pledge to keep Dublin's T2 shiny is more than that. Shows you where we are in the pecking order. :mad:

Carnacalla wrote: »

But there is Dublin, 20x more population than waterford and has at least half the tourism traffic, and than waterford.

There is no point in putting 400k into a runway at an airport that wont make a profit anyway.

Well i suppose that is debatable. Loads out of the airport where profitable and the routes to London / manchester and birmingham where yielding high loads.

Also as the regions designated capital and gateway town I believe it is justified to enable more air routes with our stronget economic neighbour and possibly europe

fricatus wrote: »

Fine. Give Waterford Airport one 20th of what Dublin gets in that case. T2 cost €609 million. Imagine what €30 million would do for Waterford Airport!

But Waterford dose not have travellers from all parts of the country going to it, nor does it have much tourist traffic

fricatus wrote: »

I don't think many smaller airports do make a profit. Cork and Shannon certainly don't. The benefits to business and the community locally are such that the taxpayer tends to take the hit. I've no problem with this being the case - all I want is that we get our share of that pie!

Shannon has made a profit this year.

TheQuietFella wrote: »

No need for the comments. It is after all just a discussion.

'In time' covers quite an amount! Just not the here & now.
A flight recently was cancelled & the passengers re-routed to Belfast by bus to make their flight. Not the most ideal of situations to be in for all the anti bus establishment.

I would like a decent place to have a drink or something to eat while I'm waiting for my flight. It's more like waiting in the Keogh Practice in Ballybricken. You have better options in WRH than at the airport to be honest.

I would sooner travel to Dublin/Cork & get a direct flight to my destination of choice rather than waiting around at any other airport to continue my journey. Why bother doing otherwise?

I'm all for the success of the airport but I'm not going to be ripped off on prices for the privilege of keeping an airport in Waterford.

Enjoy driving up the M9 at 3-4am for your cheap flight to Manchester

Carnacalla wrote: »

Or whenever you feel like flying.

With the check in time and 2 hour drive if you've to make Manchester at 9 or 10 I think is the point they were trying to make with a bit of exaggeration thrown in.

The prices are good for the 30th of Spetember which is 4 weeks ahead and not a busy period. Then you have to pay to park as well plus the 40-50 euro for diesel/petrol. The parking is telling me over 134 euro for a 5 day park at the moment. So you're talking the bones of 200 euro to get there and park nevermind the flight cost which will likely not be on a Monday or Tuesday, 4 weeks ion advance and in a very non-busy date and a non-busy time.

As far as I remember the London route was shut down even though it was making money due to the issues surrounding Aer Arrann. From a personal perspective I was travelling over and back to London quite a bit the few months before it closed and it the flight was nearly always full.

Hey lads we are trying to make sure of the future of our Airport, tell you what no one has suggested using a fly/cruise scenario. Depends on what draught vessels can get up to the city quays, but is there a niche market not thought about.
Fly into Waterford and then go cruising? Is it a possibility?

Extending the hyped wild Atlantic way and make Waterford a start/finish point would surely pull in numbers too for a fly drive holiday.

TheQuietFella wrote: »

And the only two destinations are Manchester & Birmingham & no sign of London or any another European destination!

If people are serious about an airport for the south east it needs serious thinking about & action.
It obviously doesn't have the demand by the travelling public who can't be wrong considering the facilities at other airports.

Currently €250 to fly from Wat' to Man' return from Oct' 17 > 19 while Ryanair is €86.

That's three times as expensive. Good luck to you if you are willing to pay that!

I'm actually flying Waterford to Manchester 17th -19th October, we paid €104 pp

Edit: that's including a checked in bag per person - 15kg I think?

dzilla wrote: »

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See image attached.

Carnacalla wrote: »

See image attached.

I did and i am still puzzled why you have posted a random flight on Tuesday in September to me?

Carnacalla wrote: »

All flights are €9.99

You said to enjoy driving up to Dublin at 3 or 4 in the morning for your cheap flight, implying that the cheap flights were only in the morning. The image clearly outlines all flights (or alternative flights to the morning) were as cheap as each other.

The quiet fella and I where specifically speaking about a Friday flight in October. Friday flights will always be more expensive because of the demand. You can't compare a Tuesday flight with a Friday flight.