Originally Posted by
A320.b744
Realistically the island needs three airports - BFS, DUB and either ORK/SNN. The island is simply too big to have just one airport, and poor road infrastructure (particularly in the west of the island) means that driving for 3 hours in Ireland is a lot less comfortable than driving for 3 hours on a US highway.
Furthermore, the fact that the island is composed of two sovereign nations means that there will always be at least two airports - one in both Belfast and Dublin.
With the improving road and rail network NOC, WAT, KIR are definitely under threat in the long term. LDY is in the same situo