IRELAND WEST AIRPORT KNOCK

[sawtooth]

If Dynorod ever need an aircraft...

Confirmation regarding BRS route end from NOC, looks like they'll miss some of the busiest weeks around Cheltenham and SW music festivals next spring.

@irelandwest: Ryanair are cancelling the Bristol flight from Oct 29. We are working to source a new carrier to operate route for summer'12.

[Kinocker]

Good to see some decent connections and prices to Paris now available via MAN. 150 Euros return to CDG and a total journey time of 4.5 hours should make it a shorter and cheaper overall journey from the west than going via Dublin. Hopefully it gets some marketing because without a direct route most people are otherwise unlikely to know that the option exists.

[iwak]

Hi knocker great to have the new connections but do be have onward connections with air France at Paris or with klm at ams.

How have the loads been to edi lately?

[Kinocker]

Hi knocker great to have the new connections but do be have onward connections with air France at Paris or with klm at ams.

Not from Knock, no - it's just NOC - MAN - CDG at this stage. Still a lot better than the previous Edinburgh option though.

How have the loads been to edi lately?

Consistently in the 40s whenever I've been on it, so between 50% and 60%. I think BE have the frequencies right with 3 weekly year round and 5 weekly in the summer. Don't think the route would support much more than that but it certainly seems to have been a success for them.

[Knock63]

Just came across this ???

11 Leeds Bradford winter routes

Alicante
Knock
Barcelona
Krakow
Dusseldorf
Lanzarote
Dublin
Malaga
Fuerteventura
Venice
Gdansk

Leeds Bradford Airport’s John Parkin said,

“We are delighted to unveil an exciting new Ryanair winter schedule from Leeds Bradford with a great mix of low fares routes to winter sun and city break destinations as well as connections to the East and West of Ireland. Leeds Bradford Airport’s successful partnership with Ryanair delivers vital tourism and business connections to the region and we look forward to another successful winter schedule.”

Does anyone know if this has changed or is it ON for this winter at Noc ?

[Jamie2k9]

That was released before Knock was pulled. On the route map on NOC webstie it says that LBA is ending.

[Knock63]

Ok, thanx for the info Jamie.

[iwak]

Lba is definitely gone it was overkill to the northwest with lpl and man. Brs is more of a loss it has been performing nicely this summer when operating we'd/fri/sun. Last winter it was tues/thurs/sat which is no good for the noc Market as itis mainly vfr and travelling for weekends over the winter months.

Do flybe operate any Bristol routes? I remember them closing a base there a few years ago. A q 400 would be the ideal aircraft for this route.

[MerchantVenturer]

iwak

At the moment Flybe operate from Bristol to Belfast City, Jersey and the Isle of Man but it's not a base for the airline.

[Kinocker]

Local radio reporting that 'over 72,000' passengers used the airport last month, up from 70,000 last year. I would guess that with all the extra sun routes, UK routes must be fairly static if the overall increase is only 2,000.

[Fly_bill]

UK routes up 6% in July so looks fairly positive all round

[Kinocker]

Spanish routes from Knock for July:

Alicante 4363 (LF 82.4%)
Reus 3973 (LF 80.8%)
Lanzarote 3165 (LF 95.5%)
Tenerife 1370 (LF 90.6%)
Gran Can 1277 (LF 84.4%)
Pamplona 167

[Mayfly1]

Wow, where do you get these stats from so quick?

[Kinocker]

Aena provide them on their website. They get them up very quickly unlike the CSO who have about a two month delay in publication.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

I see Knock airport will be open until at least 23.00 tonight. Suprised they haven't diverted the flight into SNN insted. Hoiw will they manage to pay staff!!!

[Knock63]

Minimal staff and mostly part-timers I'd say, gotta keep the costs down ya know

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Flybe here to stay. MAN & EDI on sale for summer 2012.

[Kinocker]

Excellent. I would still be hopeful that the Manchester flight will be switched to daily before too long, at worst for next years summer season if not this side of Christmas.

I had another flight on the EDI route yesterday (flybe at Knock are doing well out of me!). Seems to be a very consistent passenger flow on the route, always showing solid loads of 50-60% while never really going much above that. This would appear to be more than enough to keep flybe happy with the progress of the route.

EDIT: Had a look at flybe's timetable there with Christmas flights in mind - the Edinburgh flight will be going on hiatus for six weeks from January 6th and is scheduled to return from February 17th onwards into next summer. It's a quiet time of year so no big worries there provided that it does indeed come back.

The MAN flight will operate right through the winter but the Sunday flight is not scheduled to operate for four Sundays between the 8th of January and the 12th of February (but the route will continue to operate Mon/Wed/Fri during this period). Seems a little bit pointless cutting just four individual flights and I wouldn't have thought the Sunday one would be the appropriate one to drop since Wednesday is generally a quieter day in terms of traffic at NOC.

[Kinocker]

73,237 passengers used Knock in July, up 4.5% on last year.

For the period Jan-Jul 2011 more than 52,000 additional passengers have used the airport compared to the same period last year. Each of the seven months has seen a passenger increase compared to the same month last year.

[sawtooth]

Had a look at CAA stats for July, MAN had a big fall, not clear if that could be attributed to WW closing the route/promotion, but LPL seems to have picked up the slack.

STN +2%
EMA +6%
LBA +7%
LTN +9%
BRS +23%
LPL +35%
LGW -2%
BHX -11%
MAN -30%
EDI - new