Originally Posted by
Jamie2k9
We're talking about a small regional airport and not two of the busiest airports in the world. A big difference know them and its easier by the fact those cities have 3 or 4 airports.
Lack of urban area near NOC doesn't favor it as most people coming here will base themselves in a city for many reasons such as transport, good accommodation, easy to get information etc.
Anyone planning a trip to the west of Ireland is most certainly
not thinking of basing themselves in a city, so the lack of urban area
should work in Knock's favour. If it doesn't, maybe that's because the airport management are trying (like so many other regional airports) to be the next Schipol/Frankfurt/CdG/Heathrow, instead of promoting the facility as the very best point of entry for "empty space" tourism and business. Chasing after a seventies-style, legacy-airline, big-city business traveller is a waste of time.
And charging people to leave through the airside doors shows a definite lack of commercial realism (or too much time spent at the O'Leary school of economics).