Ireland West Summer 2010;
I note that on the RTE news in the past week when travel updates come on they usually include Knock in the summary. Ie yesterday they said 'Dublin airport is closed but Cork, Shannon and Knock are operational'.
It is significant that Knock gets a mention now as it used not. The airport amazes me in terms of the choice of destinations for such a rural area.
For Summer 2010 the routes are as follows with frequencies;
London Stansted x13 per week
London Gatwick x 7 per week
London Luton x 7 per week
Manchester x 5 per week (varies per month)
Birmingham x 4 per week
Dublin x 7 per week
Liverpool x 6 per week
Leeds Bradford x 3 per week
Bristol x 4 per week
East Midlands x 3 per week
Faro x 2 per week
Alicante x 2 per week
I then make it that there are approx 5 charters per week including Monarch to Faro, Swiss to Zurich (via Shannon?), Lanzarote (Iberworld), cadiz? Reus Split and Lourdes? It wasnt straight forward to get clarity on what charters were definately going.
So thats approx 68 flight in and out per week. Not bad in the recession.
EI-BUD