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Yes.....I agree funding is required.....to replace the lights 747 pictured above blew away on departure....IAA were most interested as I remember!
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Bloomberg to promote new route
NY Mayor, Michael Bloomberg will be returning from a trip to Israel and Jordan in the next few days via Knock airport so as to promote the new route to New York.
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gaelgeoir
public procurement? Thought NOC was a private concern? :confused: |
Private concern, State money.
If State money is being spent, public procurement regs. apply.
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Just as well Globespan didn't start this side of the summer if the images of NOC on http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0208/wea...17612,null,230 (about 30 seconds from the start) are anything to go by - ATR42 stranded due unable to clear the apron and runways of snow. In fairness, snow is probably rare out there but it looks like they shut the airport all day because of snow.
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Snow is a rarety in Mayo, theres a great picture on the front of the Irish Times today of 2 Aer Arann pilots walking on the apron infront of their AT43
http://www.ireland.com/homepage/imag...0364041778.jpg Knock airport was closed for a large part of the day and flights to six British airports from Dublin, Cork and Knock were cancelled or disrupted. Bmi Baby cancelled two flights on its Knock to Birmingham route and diverted a flight from Manchester, due to land in Knock, to Shannon airport. Flights into and out of Ireland West Airport, Knock - the highest airport in the country - were either cancelled or postponed because of the heavy snowfalls there. By midday, there was snow cover of up to seven centimetres on the runway, according to Desmond O'Flynn, the airport's customer relations manager. http://www.ireland.com/ |
Boston via B737-800?
It's apparent from comments on the Flyglobespan thread that the GLA-Knock-BOS service is to be operated by a B737-800 this summer. This re-inforces earlier scepticism regarding the passenger (and tourism, and spending) benefits proclaimed by the airport's M.D. when announcing the new routes. Whereas it's probably the perfect aircraft to inaugurate transatlantic service on a thin route, no mention of the equipment proposed can be found in the Flyglobespan website, nor in any publicity around the Knock-Boston service. Irish aviation's best-kept secret?
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The Flyglobespan chairman specifically said the they were using a "757 extended range" at the launch event in New York and he also mentioned it would have winglets. He may have been referring to the JFK route alone.
But a 738 2 x weekly isn't going to be very attractive long-term on the BOS route. |
Rumour is that Knock received over €1m from the state to support the US services for what will only amount to 5 or 6 thousand inbound pax. How many of them would have travelled through SNN or DUB anway? Knock will do about 500,000 this year if its lucky after the departure of Easy yet the government seem to have an insatiable appetite for throwing taxpayers funds at it. I will hand it to them though they are really good at overstating PR.
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Baby at Knock
I'd say any chance of BHX going double daily went out the window when FR started EMA. BHX and EMA aren't that far apart
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Hats off to Knock on how well the New York and Boston bookings are doing. They seem to be getting it all together just at the right time at Knock. One remark about the press release above though. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech is noble, moving and is surely famous for all the good reasons rather than any way infamous as is stated in Knock's press release. Someone might encourage the team at Knock to have a another look at that bit?
Now, as for infamy, an example might be what the Shannon stopover was to the rest of the country? ;) |
This is slightly off-topic, but I shall ask anyway:
I am experiencing difficulties hiring a car at Knock airport arriving on the evening flight from DUB in mid-June. When booking through the usual car brokers, I am told that no pick-up is possible after 1800hrs. I cannot believe that it is impossible to hire a car when arriving from Dublin. Could someone please tell me which companies are open after 1800hrs so that I can tell the broker over here to make a reservation with them? |
Budget
Budget meet all confirmed reservations, regardless of time.
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Transatlantic
Any info on how the initial transatlantic services got on over the weekend, anyone?
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AVIS
The AVIS desk at knock stays open until 1915, to accomodate the arrival of the 1900 RE DUB-NOC flight |
Found some images of the first JFK flight arriving on 09 and.
http://www.castlebar.ie/gallery/main...2_itemId=10770 JFK 752 & BOS 737 http://www.castlebar.ie/gallery/main...2_itemId=10797 |
How many seats are in the 737-700 when it has reduced seating? :confused:
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still 149 pax on the -700. row 1 to 10 pax are not allocated seat B or E to allow for premium seating. ie. No pax between A & C, D & F
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XL Airways starting LGW-NOC this winter - see their UK site flight timetable. Daily except Saturday service
XL currently serve NOC, with a weekly Bourgas charter |
Hope this route does materialise. Didint think any other carrier would challenge Ryanair on its home turf after the easyjet debacle. Take it that it will be a 737 800.
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