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KNOCK AIRPORT HAS announced a new route to the UK with the airline Flybe to operate a flight to Leeds-Bradford from March.
The airport, officially known as Ireland West Airport, at Knock in Co Mayo has announced that Flybe will operate a three-times-a-week service to Leeds-Bradford in Yorkshire in the north of England from 25 March.
The service will operate on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday and will be the third addition to Flybe’s route network at the airport following the introduction of services to Edinburgh and Manchester last year.
“This brings the number of destinations served in the UK to ten and is another significant step in the Airport’s development as we continue to provide an ever-widening choice of great value, direct and convenient flights to our customers both in Ireland and in the UK,” Knock Airport’s MD Joe Gilmore said.
The airport recently revealed that 2011 had been its busiest year since it began operating in 1986. Traffic increased by 65,000 passengers – 11 per cent – last year on 2010′s figures to 654,500 passengers in total.
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Brilliant news to hear Knock developing more routes. In my opinion Knock has got to be the most pleasant airports to use in Ireland.
Great to see an airport in the west doing well, fair play to all the effort and work that goes into running it.. Shannon is gone to pot, no decent Ryanair flights from Shannon into any european destination anymore, have to go to Dublin for that. it’s sad to see it cos Shannon is a stress free airport..good luck to Knock..
This is all down to Enda looking after his own at the expense of shannon.
How do you figure that?! Some people always have to have a bogey man to blame for their own ills.
It wouldn’t be possible that these new routes might be down to hard work by the airport management and low cost base at Ireland West? Or the large West of Ireland community in North England? No, the “Shannon deserves…” mentality live on strong as ever.
Shannon is a great facility and will improve when it gets costs down and the locals start to use the routes it has again instead of letting them close and winging about it being “the gubberments fault” endlessly.
@Daithi , Knock isn’t a state owned airport, They get funding but Unlike Shannon, Dublin or Cork they are not directly owned ( Knock is better off and so is the irish tax payer) so I fail to see how Enda had any influence over the routes flybe choose?
Good luck to the guys and girls in knock I been through it a few times very pleasant experience.
I think you’ll find daithi that the reason IWAK has a development tax, is because they benefit from very little government support financially. Its pretty much a self financing airport, which is why these airlines like dealing with IWAK. None of the political red tape like they have with the DAA and such. That’s why it’s a success story. Not bad for an airport that was once labelled by a certain political figure as, the “soggy,foggy,bog”. Hope it continues to grow as it is giving vital jobs to young and old people alike around here.
No mention of Flybe starting routes from Waterford
Well they are. The journal might pick it up soon I’d say.
Or maybe not
What is it with this UK business. What ever happened to flight route to Britain??
It’s called the mobile world, if u are on a mobile devise you want the story in as few characters as possible. If you don’t like it go use BBC or do you not like me abbreviating that
What could your possible problem be with the use of ‘UK’ for a story that involves (in their own words) “The UK’s third largest airline”? They are a UK airline creating jobs in Ireland. They fly to every part of the UK. I don’t see why the Journal should avoid facts to skew their language just to suit your obvious political beliefs and it looks like the red thumbs agree.
Any reason why the new routes from Waterford don’t get an awl plug?! :)
More power to Knock and all the private sector businesses in Ireland.
@Jay Funk. Nothing to do with abbreviation. We use the term UK because it’s shorter than Britain or England ? It’s the one term that brings in a part of Ireland and clearly not appropriate.
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