Transatlantic route to Kerry?
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Transatlantic route to Kerry?
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A319 could do it but there would be some problems.
05 Oct 2011
Possiblity of Transatlantic Flights for Kerry
The US city of Myrtle Beach is seriously considering the possibility of starting flights to Kerry. Mayor of Killarney Sean Counihan who has just returned from a trip to South Carolina City which is twinned with Killarney says they are extremely enthusiastic about the possibility. The Killarney delegation also offered Cork as a possibility if Farranfore was not suitable; however Kerry Airport has confirmed that it can cater for transatlantic flights. Spirit Airlines in the US was mentioned as a possible carrier and if it materialised it would lead to one flight a week for 16 weeks a year. If the plan comes to pass, it will follow the already successful Charlotte - Dublin route, which brought 70,000 visitors to Ireland in its first year.
Possiblity of Transatlantic Flights for Kerry
The US city of Myrtle Beach is seriously considering the possibility of starting flights to Kerry. Mayor of Killarney Sean Counihan who has just returned from a trip to South Carolina City which is twinned with Killarney says they are extremely enthusiastic about the possibility. The Killarney delegation also offered Cork as a possibility if Farranfore was not suitable; however Kerry Airport has confirmed that it can cater for transatlantic flights. Spirit Airlines in the US was mentioned as a possible carrier and if it materialised it would lead to one flight a week for 16 weeks a year. If the plan comes to pass, it will follow the already successful Charlotte - Dublin route, which brought 70,000 visitors to Ireland in its first year.
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Hmm. Spirit Airlines. A non-ETOPS low-cost carrier, operating Myrtle Beach-Gander-Keflavik-Kerry, taking only a few hours longer than a connecting flight Myrtle Beach-Charlotte-Dublin-Kerry? Fairly typical of the results when politicians do network planning...
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Fairly typical of the results when politicians do network planning..
That route is unlikely to be succesful unless it can generate connecting traffic, which it obviously won't. Doomed from the start ..... oh ... did I say a united Europe?
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Another silly news story, politican go's to USA, speaks to a few people who tell him they might be interested in the route, he comes home saying deal almost done, no proper research done by the lazy journo's, nice handy new's story lands on his/her lapand it's all down to the pub for the rest of the day.
It's only going to be a weekly flight for 16 weeks, do the math's, numbers don't stack up.
It's only going to be a weekly flight for 16 weeks, do the math's, numbers don't stack up.
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Could a once weekly flight to Kerry from the US work in the summer months?
Maybe, if you sold enough of the seats to tour operators.
There are enough US tourists in Kerry that even capturing 20% of them would give you a healthy load before you generated any new traffic.
But that would be from New York or Boston.
Could it work from Myrtle Beach?
Maybe, if you sold enough of the seats to tour operators.
There are enough US tourists in Kerry that even capturing 20% of them would give you a healthy load before you generated any new traffic.
But that would be from New York or Boston.
Could it work from Myrtle Beach?
