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At last Waterford have gotten a new ILS. They're taking the old one offline next week to install the new one. Great to see it! Any word of going CAT II 
In other news, I hear that the new Waterford city bypass and new Bridge have been opened this week. Great news for residents of Kilkenny, Tipp, Wexford and even Carlow travelling to the airport.
RTE news :
More on this here : RTÉ News: €500m Waterford by-pass opens
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In other news, I hear that the new Waterford city bypass and new Bridge have been opened this week. Great news for residents of Kilkenny, Tipp, Wexford and even Carlow travelling to the airport.
RTE news :
The Waterford city by-pass has been officially opened three-and-a-half years after work started and ten months ahead of schedule.
The bypass includes a 465m cable-stayed bridge over the River Suir. The as yet unnamed bridge is the longest in the State.
The road has been described as the most important infrastructural development in Waterford in living memory. It is estimated that the cost of design, construction and operating the by-pass is in excess of €500m.
The bypass includes a 465m cable-stayed bridge over the River Suir. The as yet unnamed bridge is the longest in the State.
The road has been described as the most important infrastructural development in Waterford in living memory. It is estimated that the cost of design, construction and operating the by-pass is in excess of €500m.
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They don't have the money. Since the beginning of the recession the government has frozen capital expenditure of all Regional airports in the state.
No money, no runway, simples!!
Oh and they don't have the land either. It needs to be CPO'd first and that's a lengthy procedure.
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No money, no runway, simples!!
Oh and they don't have the land either. It needs to be CPO'd first and that's a lengthy procedure.
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They don't have the money or planning in place, all non contracted regional airport capital investments have been put on hold by the DOT, this was discussed in a thread a couple of weeks back ...
http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...rt-future.html
http://www.pprune.org/airlines-airpo...rt-future.html
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Looks like Waterford have poped up looking for permission for a new hangar, office space, and car parking
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Daniel......
Looks like you will have to pop 'over the road' and go from Kerry to Faro with Ryanair.
You could also go to Alicante.....if Faro is full!!!
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Looks like you will have to pop 'over the road' and go from Kerry to Faro with Ryanair.
You could also go to Alicante.....if Faro is full!!!
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The 5Q thanks for the link to the Waterford Airport video link. Very nice images of the airport, I was especially interested in the future artists impression of what the airport could look like. Reminds me alot of Cork!
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No, capital spending budget cut last year and a new Government report into regional airports recommended maintaining subsidy to support Waterford, but not investing in runway extension.
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The "value for money" report mentions numerous times that the reason Kerry and Knock are achieving much higher pax figures and therefore more viable than the others is that they have the "Jet" runway. Yet it recomends Waterford just receives operational support for the next few years to see if it can become more viable..but then it recommends it does not receive grant aid to allow them reach similiar figures. In other words they will not "help them to help themselves"
Recent figures estimate that the runway and associated infrastructure could be done for approx 15m. Surely this has to be money well spent. The exchequer would get some back through taxes from workers and materials used to build it, plus te airport would no doubt need to hire a few more staff and then theres the biggest pay off what an extra 150-200,000 inbound vistors would spend in the region. The report acknowledges that the Southeast is an untapped market with much more potential for inbound tourism and that already the airport has the second highest percentage of inbound tourists to the region who use the local airport.
The benefit to the region of the increase in pax would surely far exceed the 15m needed to get there.
Also it is the closest airport to Dublin with a brand new motorway between the two, along with the new Waterford city by-pass and the new airport road makes access to much bigger cathement area and could help in a small way to relieve the pressure on Dublin airport. A study has shown that potential passengers as far north as Naas would save little time in using Dublin over Waterford with the added bonus of easy uncongested processing that would come with a using a small airport.
It just does'nt make sense to me...especially when ye see the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 they have given to the banks!!!!
I think the report should have recommended giving the funding as soon as money is available...then again maybe the new minister for transport will think the same!!
Recent figures estimate that the runway and associated infrastructure could be done for approx 15m. Surely this has to be money well spent. The exchequer would get some back through taxes from workers and materials used to build it, plus te airport would no doubt need to hire a few more staff and then theres the biggest pay off what an extra 150-200,000 inbound vistors would spend in the region. The report acknowledges that the Southeast is an untapped market with much more potential for inbound tourism and that already the airport has the second highest percentage of inbound tourists to the region who use the local airport.
The benefit to the region of the increase in pax would surely far exceed the 15m needed to get there.
Also it is the closest airport to Dublin with a brand new motorway between the two, along with the new Waterford city by-pass and the new airport road makes access to much bigger cathement area and could help in a small way to relieve the pressure on Dublin airport. A study has shown that potential passengers as far north as Naas would save little time in using Dublin over Waterford with the added bonus of easy uncongested processing that would come with a using a small airport.
It just does'nt make sense to me...especially when ye see the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 they have given to the banks!!!!
I think the report should have recommended giving the funding as soon as money is available...then again maybe the new minister for transport will think the same!!
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Cuts
Aer Arann are to cut the WAT-BHX service for the winter period replacing it with a further LTN service. A mix of good and bad news I suppose. The BHX service was always the poor relation of routes at WAT. Perhaps WAT can build it's loads back up and show that it is quite viable.
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LTn is the job
It's almost like admitting there is a problem with SEN. For the time being SEN isn't going to set the world alight. Just read the book on Ryanair and see the flukes which occured to help STN! Anyways. LTN was always the bread winner for WAT. Airlines come and go but the route is the same.
BHX was going to be a thin route. One thing which does amaze me is - RE have EI Commuter sorry regional. And it feeds EI T/A services etc. Why does RE not look at working with longhaul airlines such as Emirates via BHX? If it only adds a seat a day it's one seat less to worry about.
RE is now a very marginal operation and needs every seat. Time to be a bit more creative me thinks!
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BHX was going to be a thin route. One thing which does amaze me is - RE have EI Commuter sorry regional. And it feeds EI T/A services etc. Why does RE not look at working with longhaul airlines such as Emirates via BHX? If it only adds a seat a day it's one seat less to worry about.
RE is now a very marginal operation and needs every seat. Time to be a bit more creative me thinks!
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SEN
SEN loads were not too bad for the summer season but winter will be a different story especially without the Galway share to boost them up.
If Aer Arann really wanted the could operate MAN M-W-F--S and continue BHX -T-T-S- so at least some service is kept for the winter season.
At the moment on Tue, Wed, Sat the ATR42 operates morning and evening to SEN and sits on the ground for the rest of the day but Im sure with the ongoing techs it will be off covering elsewhere during those periods.
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If Aer Arann really wanted the could operate MAN M-W-F--S and continue BHX -T-T-S- so at least some service is kept for the winter season.
At the moment on Tue, Wed, Sat the ATR42 operates morning and evening to SEN and sits on the ground for the rest of the day but Im sure with the ongoing techs it will be off covering elsewhere during those periods.
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Shamrogue
I don't quite see the logic of your statement regarding SEN.
If RE felt that the GWY-LON route overall was viable over the winter, but that SEN was the weak link, surely they would have simply suspended the GWY-SEN and transferred all flights back to LTN at whatever frequency they felt would meet demand. The fact that they haven't done so suggests that the substantial overall cost savings achived by 'temporarily' closing the GWY base is more important to ensuring their survival than is maintaining the GWY-LON route.
I don't quite see the logic of your statement regarding SEN.
If RE felt that the GWY-LON route overall was viable over the winter, but that SEN was the weak link, surely they would have simply suspended the GWY-SEN and transferred all flights back to LTN at whatever frequency they felt would meet demand. The fact that they haven't done so suggests that the substantial overall cost savings achived by 'temporarily' closing the GWY base is more important to ensuring their survival than is maintaining the GWY-LON route.
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It will be interesting to see what difference it will make when the new terminal opens and EZY launch. At the moment they are the sole operator into a little known airport. I daresay stobart have a great deal to do with the limited schedule out of Luton. What I can't understand is why they don't attempt any other routes, I could totally see Dublin working for instance, Cork probably too, although it could land in an FR lead disaster story!