Thanks Sawtooth, that's interesting - having a new access route closer to the terminal makes sense alright, as things stand you do a bit of an unnecessary loop to go down to the existing roundabout and back to the car park entrance.
Had a look at the UK pax numbers for January there. There were only routes to Dublin and the UK last month from Knock (hopefully that's the last month for some time or even ever where that is the case) so you can get a fair idea of how the airport has done in terms of passengers.
All UK routes are up apart from Bristol which has surprisingly dropped. You'd expect gains across the board given the weather disruption last January so the Bristol number is a bit disappointing. However the Leeds route didn't exist last year so there's a boost to the figures there.
All in all the final total will be a lot closer to the 2009 number (32,000) than the 2010 number (26,500) which is a decent start to the year. You would hope for big gains from April onwards as the new routes and seasonal routes kick in.
Tenerife started today with the other scheduled routes commencing over the next two months:
16 Feb Tenerife South
22 Feb Gran Canaria
1 Mar Faro
28 Mar Alicante
29 Mar Barcelona-Reus
7 Apr Lanzarote
19 Apr Edinburgh