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Kerry Airport - News & Updates

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  • #92
    adam88
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    smurfjed wrote: »
    Depends on the regulations they operate under, a private Global operating under FAR-91 doesn't have any duty time limits. The same plane operated under FAR-135 (Charter) would need additional crew with a proper crew rest facility.

    Wow. That’s scary. That’s a long flight from Las Vegas to Kerry


  • #93
    adam88
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    Lots of private jets in kerry today


  • #94
    BZ
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    adam88 wrote: »
    Lots of private jets in kerry today

    Big golf event in Waterville


  • #95
    marno21
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    That golf course is a nice money earner for Kerry Airport at the minute. N800HH is frequently over from New York with the golf club logo on the tail. EI-PRO and G-ESET doing plenty of shuttling too.


  • #96
    marno21
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    Irish Times with some Kerry Airport bashing

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/time-for-kerry-airport-to-learn-to-fly-alone-1.3614329


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  • #97
    faoiarvok
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    marno21 wrote: »
    Irish Times with some Kerry Airport bashing

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/time-for-kerry-airport-to-learn-to-fly-alone-1.3614329

    Whatever the arguments for cutting subsidies, making the airport out to be Farranfore Airport, serving just the residents there, is plainly stupid. And arguing that if the airport is there, why do they need the other public transport goes against all the logic of a well connected transport system, something we rightly give out about being sorely lacking in many cases in this country.


  • #98
    Shn99
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    Slow news day for the Dublin times.


  • #99
    fuerte1976
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    Anyone know when the Ryanair schedule for the Spain/Portugal routes might be announced from Kerry?


  • #100
    coylemj
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    faoiarvok wrote: »
    Whatever the arguments for cutting subsidies, making the airport out to be Farranfore Airport, serving just the residents there, is plainly stupid.

    +1 it was a very mean-spirited article. As a culchee living in Dublin, I squirm when I hear Danny Healy-Rae and Mattie McGrath doing their beal bocht routines but that article was a really bad piece of 'journalism'.

    The fact, as the whole country (except the IT) knows, is that it is where it is because WW III would have broken out if it was located at Tralee or Killarney. Farranfore is midway between those two towns and it has a railway station so it was the obvious place to locate the airport, even if there was only 20 people in the village or even if there was no village at all nearby. Sneering at Farrnfore and claiming that it doesn't deserve an airport is completely missing the point.


  • #101
    marno21
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    embraer170 wrote: »
    Lots of biz jet traffic these days. A Bombardier Global Express just came in from Las Vegas.

    N711WM on its way again just after departing McCarran in Vegas

    Weird looking at the airspace over southern Utah and seeing a flight with Kerry as its destination


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  • #102
    marno21
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    Summer season starting again at Kerry. Gulfstream N820HB glowing in the sunlight this evening after arriving in yesterday from Morristown, NJ. Also OE-HMR in from Paris yesterday. Lovely to see the activity starting early.


  • #103
    ongarboy
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    New helicopter base to facilitate gas/oil exploration as well as new management changes, a newly constructed fire station, pre boarding area and bar and restaurant along with 8% passenger increase in 2018 bodes well for this regional airport!

    http://traleetoday.ie/new-kerry-airport-general-manager-welcomes-babcock-decision-to-locate-base-in-farranfore/

    Some interesting stats for pax for last year too. New Berlin route had 85% load factor and a 12% jump in the Dublin route prompted an increase to a larger aircraft to service the route.

    http://traleetoday.ie/kerry-airport-sees-9-increase-in-passenger-numbers-over-2018/


  • #104
    ongarboy
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    Time for Kerry Airport to fly solo? (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/time-for-kerry-airport-to-fly-solo-1.3853745

    Interestingly, Irish Times questioned previously as to whether the airport was viable but now asking whether it should be free of State subsidies!


  • #105
    Masala
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    ongarboy wrote: »
    Time for Kerry Airport to fly solo? (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/time-for-kerry-airport-to-fly-solo-1.3853745

    Interestingly, Irish Times questioned previously as to whether the airport was viable but now asking whether it should be free of State subsidies!

    That's the 2nd time that lad 'Cantillion' has had a go at Kerry. Looks like he has an agenda or some sort and specifically begrudges them having a PSO operation.

    No mention of all the other regional airports that are getting the same level (if not greater levels) of grants etc.


  • #106
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
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    ongarboy wrote: »
    Time for Kerry Airport to fly solo? (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/time-for-kerry-airport-to-fly-solo-1.3853745

    Interestingly, Irish Times questioned previously as to whether the airport was viable but now asking whether it should be free of State subsidies!

    Poorly written, few paragraphs, throwaway article by someone who clearly has some sort of agenda.


  • #107
    marno21
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    Transatlantic traffic starting to pick up again for the summer. N105ST Gulfstream G550 currently descending in over the Dingle Peninsula from White Plains, NY (HPN).


  • #108
    marno21
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    Ryanair have cut further at Hahn: https://www.eifelzeitung.de/region/ryanair-verabschiedet-sich-in-raten-vom-hahn-212943/ (article is in German but translatable to get the important points).

    Kerry now the last UK/Ireland route left out of there. Down to 37 weekly flights in W19.


  • #109
    Masala
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    marno21 wrote: »
    Ryanair have cut further at Hahn: https://www.eifelzeitung.de/region/ryanair-verabschiedet-sich-in-raten-vom-hahn-212943/ (article is in German but translatable to get the important points).

    Kerry now the last UK/Ireland route left out of there. Down to 37 weekly flights in W19.

    Did that Articles headline get lost in translation??....
    "Ryanair says goodbye to the cock"


  • #110
    marno21
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    Masala wrote: »
    Did that Articles headline get lost in translation??....
    "Ryanair says goodbye to the cock"
    "Hahn" is the German for cock (as in the animal)


  • #111
    vicwatson
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    M-YTOY took off earlier, reg in IOM


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  • #112
    embraer170
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    It would be interesting to see where the Kerry flight is moved if Ryanair pulls out of Hahn altogether.

    FRA main? Cologne? But they both capture somewhat different markets.


  • #113
    theguzman
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    embraer170 wrote: »
    It would be interesting to see where the Kerry flight is moved if Ryanair pulls out of Hahn altogether.

    FRA main? Cologne? But they both capture somewhat different markets.

    Wasn't there a flight from Kerry to Weeze (Dusseldorf) a few years? Germany is in recession also at the moment.


  • #114
    embraer170
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    theguzman wrote: »
    Wasn't there a flight from Kerry to Weeze (Dusseldorf) a few years? Germany is in recession also at the moment.

    Yeah, it lasted a season or so. Ryanair are also downsizing the Weeze base. Along with Germans, the Hahn-Kerry flight seems to attract quite a few French, Belgians and even some Swiss.


  • #115
    Oscar Bravo
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    Bit of biz in today. D-CARO just landed with G-OCJZ and 2-CLEV in this afternoon


  • #116
    marno21
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    G-VINT & G-MCSA , two Sikorskys positioned in from Prestwick today.

    Are they related to this ?

    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/farranfore-base-for-oil-choppers-37907038.html


  • #117
    Teebor15
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    marno21 wrote: »
    G-VINT & G-MCSA , two Sikorskys positioned in from Prestwick today.

    Are they related to this ?

    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/farranfore-base-for-oil-choppers-37907038.html

    Yes, they'll be hangered in Kerry for the summer ferrying workers to the oil rigs positioned off the South West coast. A Saab 340 will be in and out 3 times a week from Aberdeen.


  • #118
    marno21
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    Teebor15 wrote: »
    Yes, they'll be hangered in Kerry for the summer ferrying workers to the oil rigs positioned off the South West coast. A Saab 340 will be in and out 3 times a week from Aberdeen.
    Interesting thank you. That possibly explains why M-ICRO was flying in last year under an Eastern Airways callsign


  • #119
    BZ
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    2-RORO a kerry regular crash landed on the A40 in Wales this afternoon. 3 people onboard helped out of the aircraft by passing motorists.


  • #120
    marno21
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    BZ wrote: »
    2-RORO a kerry regular crash landed on the A40 in Wales this afternoon. 3 people onboard helped out of the aircraft by passing motorists.
    Not even a Kerry regular, it seems to be based in Kerry mainly flying to London on Mondays and returning on Fridays.

    Thankfully all occupants survived.

    Only 5 years old also.


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  • #121
    adam88
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    Yip. Ferries local engineers to a factory in england.


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