Transatlantic route to Kerry?

[PPRuNeUser0176]

From radiokerry.ie

05 Oct 2011
Possiblity of Transatlantic Flights for Kerry
The US city of Myrtle Beach is seriously considering the possibility of starting flights to Kerry. Mayor of Killarney Sean Counihan who has just returned from a trip to South Carolina City which is twinned with Killarney says they are extremely enthusiastic about the possibility. The Killarney delegation also offered Cork as a possibility if Farranfore was not suitable; however Kerry Airport has confirmed that it can cater for transatlantic flights. Spirit Airlines in the US was mentioned as a possible carrier and if it materialised it would lead to one flight a week for 16 weeks a year. If the plan comes to pass, it will follow the already successful Charlotte - Dublin route, which brought 70,000 visitors to Ireland in its first year.

A319 could do it but there would be some problems.

[NABLAG]

Why would you want to use a A319 ??
On USA services it would only be suitable for high yield route, such as London-JFK.

B757 more suitable perhaps ?

[racedo]

Possibly as one off similar to what Cork has occasionally done but can't really see it.

[Cyrano]

Hmm. Spirit Airlines. A non-ETOPS low-cost carrier, operating Myrtle Beach-Gander-Keflavik-Kerry, taking only a few hours longer than a connecting flight Myrtle Beach-Charlotte-Dublin-Kerry? Fairly typical of the results when politicians do network planning...:rolleyes:

[Capetonian]

Fairly typical of the results when politicians do network planning..

Fairly typical of the results when politicians do anything. Look at the stuff up they've made of attempting a united Europe which anyone with a brain cell knew was an impossibility.

That route is unlikely to be succesful unless it can generate connecting traffic, which it obviously won't. Doomed from the start ..... oh ... did I say a united Europe?

[aer lingus]

Another silly news story, politican go's to USA, speaks to a few people who tell him they might be interested in the route, he comes home saying deal almost done, no proper research done by the lazy journo's, nice handy new's story lands on his/her lapand it's all down to the pub for the rest of the day.:ugh:
It's only going to be a weekly flight for 16 weeks, do the math's, numbers don't stack up.:{

[840]

Could a once weekly flight to Kerry from the US work in the summer months?

Maybe, if you sold enough of the seats to tour operators.

There are enough US tourists in Kerry that even capturing 20% of them would give you a healthy load before you generated any new traffic.

But that would be from New York or Boston.

Could it work from Myrtle Beach? :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

[jabird]

Was it Tony Ryan who said you can't fly from nowhere to nowhere?

Jeez, if CVT had all its twin cities linked up, we'd be busier than BHX!