What is the alternative? What do you propose? Why does the Republic/Southern half of this island manage to make such a lucrative case while Northern Ireland struggles?
Belfast airport, an airport with 5.1 million passengers cannot manage to retain one daily flight to EWR while SNN an airport of only 1.7 million passengers can manage to bring in 400,000 passengers from EWR, PHL, ORD, BOS and JFK. Infact, in the summer season, Delta Airlines and Aer Lingus manage to fill two Boeing 767's to BOS and JFK.
Clearly, American citizens are filling the seats there because County Kerry and it's environs alone, does not have the population to fill 400,000 seats.
Northern Ireland's poor reputation further afield is obviously having a detrimental effect on its capacity to draw in visitors from foreign locations.
For our population, we should be able to have at least two daily flights to the United States; in the summer season anyway.
Last edited by owenc; 9th Jan 2017 at 14:18.