Galway, Sligo, Waterford and Donegal airports should not exist.....end of
Comments like that smack of arrogance. And they always come from those close to the bigger airports who seem to think they have a god given right to force people from further afield to use their facilities instead of having their own.
You will seldom find such comments made by those living near "Galway, Sligo, Waterford and Donegal".
Anyway I suppose the definition of a smaller Irish regional airport would be less than 1 million passengers per annum (2008).
Rank Airport .................... Passengers
1 ....Dublin ..................... 23,500,000
2 ....Belfast International .. 5,262,354
3 ....Cork ....................... 3,250,000
4 ....Shannon ................. 3,100,000
5 ....Belfast City ............. 2,570,742
6 ....Knock ....................... 630,170
7 ....Derry ........................ 439,033
8 ....Kerry ........................ 420,000
9 ....Galway ...................... 270,000
10 ..Waterford .................. 144,000
11 ..Donegal ....................... 65,537
12 ..Sligo ........................... 44,500†
13 ..Weston ....................... 21,522
† Latest available figures are for 2007 (How do you format a table on this forum?)
On another note, I think Shannon is about to lose its crown to Belfast City.