Originally Posted by
flying officer kite
Absolutely, Turkish are great for opening up new markets that the big boys can't justify. There are only two slight snags:
1 - Turkish don't offer any services to Oz / New Zealand (yet)
2 - IST is pretty much full these days, so unless they get more parking space, or the new replacement Istanbul airport opens they probably can't expand that much.
BFS is unlikely to ever get a rail connection. My friends in Translink don't think it would ever make profit. I think a good compromise could be to build a small halt in Templepatrick, so that train passengers coming down from the North Coast could step off and straight onto the 300 airport bus service, which could make a stop there on each run? What do you think?
The trains in Northern Ireland are appalling. It takes 2 hours to get to Belfast and in a car you can get there in an hour.
No one in their right mind would rely on those things to get to an airport.