US flights from Cork face ?barriers? | Irish Examiner
“We would love to have a transatlantic flight from Cork into the East Coast of the United States, but I think we need to be realistic about that. There are a number of limitations that stop us; because of the length of the runway in Cork, there is only one aircraft that could actually fly to the east coast and that is a Boeing 757, which has 205 passengers,
Thats from the chairman of the DAA.
(Of course, hes talking out of his hole, because a Transatlantic Boeing 757 carries roughly 180 passenger. He also states that the knock on effect of the low capacity of the 757 could result in higher prices (Complete and utter BS) and would result in 1 or 2 flights a week (Like an A330 would do daily?)
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Evening Echo ? Transatlantic flights on way to Cork Airport
“The runway is not suitable for aircraft to travel to the West Coast of the USA, but at 2.1 kilometres, it is capable of serving 757 aircrafts on flights to New York, Boston and Chicago.
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On the Knock side of Transatlantic flights, I found this fourm
FlyGlobespan airline Transatlantic flts JFK and BOS to NOC Ireland west airport - Page 2 - FlyerTalk Forums
stating that the NOC-JFK flight was 50/50 NOC and LPL.