Folks, the travelling public vote with their feet and pockets...the reality IS Knock is good value for money and convenient to almost 700,000 customers using the airport, despite the development fee! And in fact it's been paid the ultimate compliment by national government having to bail out the loss making practically bankrupt state owned airport Shannon that was on the way out until its been bailed out. Government now clearly wishes to penalise knock for its success and ensure its own airports remain.
Nobody is forcing passengers to use Knock, if people don't wish to use it then they are perfectly entitled to go to other airports ....however for some strange reason this is not happening as the passenger numbers indicate ...despite all the begrudgers who want to think otherwise