IRELAND WEST AIRPORT KNOCK

[dublinaviator]

Waterford-Birmingham is also being pulled for the same period. Is this solely down to lack of demand or could it also be down to shortage of aircraft due to maintenance being carried out during this period?

[sawtooth]

Couple more routes loaded in FR system:
ALC – M_ _ _F_ _
BRS – _ _W_F_S

[mart901]

I notice BHX summer schedule now on EI website, daily at a similar time to now. Would be nice to see frequency or capacity upgrade on the route, although anything can happen, still operated by SNN a/c.

[sawtooth]

No improvement in London schedule

The airport management replied to a question on local radio yesterday from a UK based commuter looking for late services on Friday and Sunday. They acknowledged demand, but stated it was not economically viable to extend operating hours and early Saturday and Monday services had been sought instead!!

So FR isn't to blame for once. Understand short hours in the anaemic winter schedule. How long will NOC pursue this "strategy" year round. Could creative solutions like staggering the schedule on weekends work? They have secured most of the low hanging fruit as regards routes, so building on core frequency seems the only way they can hit the 1m by 2014 figure that has been mentioned recently.

[iwak]

Any news on the return of euro routes ? It's all gone very quiet lately . I personally think a 4 /5 week charter programme to New York would work well considering its the gathering next year . Just a thought!

[ryan2000]

Transatlantic Charters are almost non-existent nowadays. A short Summer scheduled service is a better bet although still a long shot.

[ryan2000]

Knock might get some spin off from the G8 Summit, it's not that far from Lough Erne and I'd expect a lot of Corporate Aircrraft.

[TRY2FLY]

Enniskillen has its own airport capable of taking most biz jets and I'd imagine O'Bama will park his 747 and entourage at Aldergrove

[dublinaviator]

Originally Posted by TRY2FLY

Enniskillen has its own airport capable of taking most biz jets and I'd imagine O'Bama will park his 747 and entourage at Aldergrove

Yeah but you're talking maximum capacity maybe 10 biz jets, which won't be enough. So the likes Knock and Derry will definitely get a bit of extra traffic for this.

[ryan2000]

Airforce 1 needn't be the 747, a smaller plane could fly him to St.Angelo although I suspect he'll travel in Marine 1 from Aldergrove.

[TRY2FLY]

10 is a very conservative figure me thinks. Although you are right they couldn't cope with ALL traffic. There will of course be even more traffic in the form of world media I'd imagine also.

[dochealth]

EI SLL at NOC

When on my way to LGW on Monday EI SLL had gone tech. On return last evening a/c still on apron. Anyone know what the problem is? Thanks
DH

[sawtooth]

EI SLL at NOC

RE ATR - tech! as Tom would say "it's not unusual..."

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Article in todays Examiner on NOC financials.

If I follow it correctly, company made a small loss of €24,000 (despite 20% increase in revenue), incurred as a result of redundancies due to reduced seasonal operating hours. They also miss projected pax figures despite 5 new services added (loss of capacity on BHX/MAN I'd imagine).

Would seem to me the additional services and numbers facilitated by longer operating hours would offset the cost and negated the need for winter redundancies...

Examiner

[Jamie2k9]

GRO will be back in April and operate 2 weekly.

[Knock63]

As far as i'm aware the engines packed in, landed just in time.

[Kinocker]

Aer Arann continue to scare me as an airline with stories like that one. Haven't flown with them in some time and would be reluctant to do so until their fleet are upgraded.

Does anyone know what the €350k write down on land investment relates to, it seems to have had a big impact on last years financial figures?

[airnoc]

Hi
This day 12 months was the big fanfare with o'leary and four new routes.

Are BVA, HAHN, Milan comming back. Girona is back in April al be it two days a week from 3 or is there new routes comming munich was menition.


All question but thanks in advance.

[Jamie2k9]

Would say BVA 2 p/w and BGY 2p/w will be back, would be suprised if HHN is back. FAO also starting mid March.

[Knock63]

Think FlyBe are sending an Embraer for the Edi flight tomorrow (Dec 2nd)

[iwak]

The 175 or 195 ? How come they are using bigger aircraft, I didn't think loads were that good!