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Well by not responding to someone questioning your "great news" statement but instead continuing on with more "great news" statements then its not far off the kind of reporting that wouldnt be out of place in North Korea..only difference, in NK id probably be in a gulag by now!!
Dont get me wrong i have no issue with knock airport in general, i think its a great success and wish it well in the future. I do however take issue with airports/airlines who throw out these "bulls@#t" marketing lines which appear to have no foundation.
Dont get me wrong i have no issue with knock airport in general, i think its a great success and wish it well in the future. I do however take issue with airports/airlines who throw out these "bulls@#t" marketing lines which appear to have no foundation.
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Media Statements from airports about busy Easter's and busy Christmas' and Busy Bank Holidays' are nothing new. Media organisations love this sort of thing although you'd wonder what's so newsworthy about it.
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I have no problem with such statements..after all they are only trying to promote themselves. I do have problem with them when they appear to be a blatant lie. Since no one has set me straight on the matter then i believe this is another instance of the above. Wonder would advertising standards have any interest..then again i suppose it would have to be an actual advert as opposed to just a press release.
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I know someone that works on the ramp at IWAK and he said all the flights were packed to near capacity, in and out on Good Fri, Sat, Sun and Bank Holiday Mon, not sure how many pax that makes, more important things to be doing than working that lot out, but I'm sure someone has nothing better to do, all yours sky conductor!!!
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Well come on lets be honest, you have already worked it out in a desperate attempt to put me back in my box. But you realise the figures just dont add up and that maybe..just maybe..your great leaders have lied to you! But you dont want to admit it so act all flipant. Anyway I refer you to my posts dated 2nd April on this thread for figures.
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I guess they're also too busy to check the accuracy of their press releases!
Your right they dont have to worry about this thread..they have their little lapdogs to do that for them!
Anyway, can any one of you justify the "20,000" figure or is just easier to attack the poster rather than the post. Im genuinly curious. Maybe ive missed something.
Your right they dont have to worry about this thread..they have their little lapdogs to do that for them!
Anyway, can any one of you justify the "20,000" figure or is just easier to attack the poster rather than the post. Im genuinly curious. Maybe ive missed something.
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a choice of 6 Spanish destinations this summer as well as Faro making it Ryanair’s biggest ever summer sun schedule from the West of Irelan
Now the passenger numbers, AFAIK they are rounded off however I also suspect that this was another lie form the PR staff in NOC as there is not a chance of 20,000 seats over Easter weekend of 4 days.
4 STN - 1512
4 LTN - 1512
4 LPL - 1512
2 BRS - 752
1 FAO - 378
1 BGY - 378
4 EMA - 1512
4 LGW - 1392
3 MAN - 468
1 EDI - 156
2 ALC - 756
4 BHX - 576
Total - 10945
Now I have BHX as a 72 as it was planned to swtich back over the last week, havn't checked if it did or not. I may of even included one EMA which didn't operate. 20,000 figure dosn't add up at all so sombody can't calculate. The tweet from the airport was:
Close to 20,000 expected through the airport this weekend, one of busiest weekends of 2013 also sees start of our Milan service on Sunday!
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Was talking to someone who works at the airport and they said that there was a visit from a delegation from Etihad last week, might be something to do with their tie up with Flybe?
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It's about the only thing that makes sense. I can't imagine that they'll be flying to Knock when they have so many other holes in their network. It's presumably a link-up with the Manchester flight as they're long gone from Gatwick and don't fly to Birmingham or Edinburgh, which are the other destinations where you can interline out of Knock.
It's a bit unusual to send a delegation just for a potential codeshare though. You could half ask yourself if it's associated with their GAA sponsorship, but Mayo isn't known as a hotbed of hurling...
It's a bit unusual to send a delegation just for a potential codeshare though. You could half ask yourself if it's associated with their GAA sponsorship, but Mayo isn't known as a hotbed of hurling...
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Some people have little else to be doing then giving out about a PR stat on twitter. Besides, the amount of debate this has caused means its gone down a treat! Im sure the marketing team in Knock which is probably only one full time member of staff with another lad/girl on a FAS work placement programme (WPP) on the social media side of things so I wouldnt exactly be too hard on them. In this one tweet no public money was spent or wasted. I'm sure if you look at twitter accounts at Dublin, Shannon or Cork they get stuff wrong, these things happen and of course like in any business you will round up figures rather then down. Remember the photo Luton Airport posted of a Russian plane crash on a social media site a few weeks back with an very ill remark, a lot worse has been done but hey lets knock Knock anyway..
I see something on the Dublin thread about a new codeshare with Etihad. Cant see Etihad wanting to travel down to Knock for no reason regardless what the actual outcome will be.
(Taken from the Dublin thread)
Dubai: Etihad Airways said on Monday it has received regulatory approval for its codeshare deal with Irish carrier Aer Lingus to offer codeshare flights via Irish capital, Dublin, to the US.
I see something on the Dublin thread about a new codeshare with Etihad. Cant see Etihad wanting to travel down to Knock for no reason regardless what the actual outcome will be.
(Taken from the Dublin thread)
Dubai: Etihad Airways said on Monday it has received regulatory approval for its codeshare deal with Irish carrier Aer Lingus to offer codeshare flights via Irish capital, Dublin, to the US.
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Fivejuliet I see you have said many negative things about Knock through your post history particularly in the last while.
Let's go through one or two of your comments from last year....
"it's going to be quite quieter at Knock next summer"
"Next summer will probably see mostly just ACE, ALC, probably FAO and probably GRO along with the UK flights. LTN doesn't look too good"
However... Alicante, Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife and the new Malaga flight and sales have been good for that so far from what I believe.
While GRO and BGY are back for 2013.
LTN as been ever present, year round. Double daily on Stansted now on a Friday & Sunday too.
You will say give it a rest and fair enough I realise i am too much pro Knock however can I ask you and others to stop trying to be overly critical and get behind a regional airport bringing much needed employment to an area in badly need of it, while standing on its own two feet and offering people in the West, North West commute to the UK every week for employment which unfortunately is not available in Ireland.
Let's go through one or two of your comments from last year....
"it's going to be quite quieter at Knock next summer"
"Next summer will probably see mostly just ACE, ALC, probably FAO and probably GRO along with the UK flights. LTN doesn't look too good"
However... Alicante, Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife and the new Malaga flight and sales have been good for that so far from what I believe.
While GRO and BGY are back for 2013.
LTN as been ever present, year round. Double daily on Stansted now on a Friday & Sunday too.
You will say give it a rest and fair enough I realise i am too much pro Knock however can I ask you and others to stop trying to be overly critical and get behind a regional airport bringing much needed employment to an area in badly need of it, while standing on its own two feet and offering people in the West, North West commute to the UK every week for employment which unfortunately is not available in Ireland.
. There's a lot of sad, sour people out there that are just a little envious of IWAK and what they have achieved so far. So once again Join Date: Sep 2004
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Come on guys. You're going to have to take the good with the bad. You climb over each othet to get "great news" posts up on this thread but cant take it when people point out glaring errors and i believe in this case it was'nt a slip of the finger on a calculator but done intentionallly in an "ah sure no one will check thoses figures anyway" kinda way. By all means round up figures but dont bloody double them!!
As ive said already im a fan of knock airport and admire what they have acheived but it annoys me that they have to stoop to that level. But i think the point has been well and truley made now so we'll leave it at that (even if the rose tinted wearing ones refuse to see it!) Be interesting to see if their projections for the next holiday period will be as "ambitious"!
As ive said already im a fan of knock airport and admire what they have acheived but it annoys me that they have to stoop to that level. But i think the point has been well and truley made now so we'll leave it at that (even if the rose tinted wearing ones refuse to see it!) Be interesting to see if their projections for the next holiday period will be as "ambitious"!
