Also in Relation to Westport in Mayo is Knock the Nearest or Is Shannon a better bet
I assume you are asking about
Westport Co. MAYO?
Knock Airport
Direction and distance from the CITY:
3 NM SW of Charlestown
Post: Ireland West Airport Knock
Connaught Airport,
Development Co. Ltd,
Charlestown Co. Mayo.
Also are there flights from Knock to Dublin.
There was a subsidized service.
Its gone, better roads and EU rules.
Without a subsidy the viability is dubious. Same applied to Galway/Sligo to Dublin services.
But even better would be to restore to knock the Service to Conemara Airport. Now I don't know how many years since it stopped but I read there used to be one.
Can you provide a link to who/when there was a service from Knock to the islands or even Minnea?
Inisheer: all distances are approximate 120kts.
Base turn runway 27 in Knock 62nm approx 32 minutes.
Base turn runway 24 in Shannon 32nm approx 15 min
to Minnea 9nm approx 5 min flying time.
Waste of taxpayers money connecting the Arran islands via Knock or Shannon.
The purpose of the Aer Arran Islands service is to provide connectivity to/from the Islands and the mainland.
Nearest large "Metropolis" is Galway.
The Islands service is to ensure that there is easy access to the mainland and locals are subsidized- don't know about tourists.
Now the question is. As a side point are there bigger aircraft such as the dornier 328 ot the Let 10 used by City wing which I think seat more.
Could they operate from Conemara? .
I read its 750m long .
AIP Runway is 600m
Use the AIP link and check each island Inisheer 500m
INISHMAAN 534m: INISHMORE 490m.
I am not a pilot but I doubt anything bigger than 10/15 seater would be able to use Minnea/Inisheer/Inishmore or Inishmaan.
While I applaud your enthusiasm I think you need to do a bit more legwork.