Midlands International Airport: Good idea or not?

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

LeinsterDub wrote: »

It will when they go bankrupt and we are expected to bail it out or demolish it.

I refer you to Galway and Waterford airports. We only bail out banks and big time developers in this country. Great bunch of lads.

Idbatterim

Do you think corporate leaders / emergency tech support want to travel hours on a motorway to their asset or site in foreign countries for business meetings etc? They want direct flight 25min transfer max and no questions asked.

in terms of the apple data centre, this airport isnt on their radar in terms of planning, so clearly it isnt important to them. Secondly I just checked, shannon is a 60 minute drive according to google maps from shannon and offaly is 57 mins . It will be even quicker drive from athenry to shannon, when the gort -tuam road opens in the not too distant future...

also in terms of what corporate leaders want, take a read of the united airlines route being axed thread on the aviation forum, pretty informative...

dubhthach

hytrogen wrote: »

Do you think corporate leaders / emergency tech support want to travel hours on a motorway to their asset or site in foreign countries for business meetings etc? They want direct flight 25min transfer max and no questions asked.

Really now? I think someone has been watching Mr. Robot and doesn't understand how Data centers actually work. Leaving that aside Shannon is still closer to Athenry site by Motorway than this proposed midland airport.

murphaph

Can't believe a crackpot idea of another airport has reached 17 pages. Well actually I can.

Sam Russell

hytrogen wrote: »

Do you think corporate leaders / emergency tech support want to travel hours on a motorway to their asset or site in foreign countries for business meetings etc? They want direct flight 25min transfer max and no questions asked.

Galway airport was well within that transfer time from Athenry and it closed through lack of traffic.

Do you think we can have enough airports in this country to be within 25 mins of every Ballygobackwards in the country to support businesses that employ 100 or so?

We cannot build the M20, DU or MN, or even the Clongriffin spur.

murphaph

murphaph wrote: »

Can't believe a crackpot idea of another airport has reached 17 pages. Well actually I can.

Don't forget, you're on boards.ie where ideas are thrashed to death by two opposing groups in ever decreasing circles.

Old link, but the story was on the front page again this week.
http://www.westmeathindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2009/12/30/3993870-ryanairs-oleary-rejects-horseleap-airport-plan

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has branded the proposed airport at Horseleap "a complete waste of money".

Midland Airport Development Ltd intends building an airport between Tubber and Horseleap, with the longest runway in Ireland

hytrogen

Sam Russell wrote:

Do you think we can have enough airports in this country to be within 25 mins of every Ballygobackwards in the country to support businesses that employ 100 or so?

Considering our airspace is the most attractive to fly through with the competitive tariff rates and most major airlines now wants to use us as an alternative hop off before heading Stateside instead of Heathrow given that's going to still be a building site for the next 20years, CDG smells and needs a lick of paint & everyone misses the connection in Schipol because they enjoy the coffee shops too much, plus with the IAA so easy to do business with yes.
Sure flying hammocks will be the commuters choice of chariot by 2020.

whyulittle

Stumbled across this earlier.

http://npf.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/0131-Midlands-Airport-Developments-Ltd.compressed.pdf

ClovenHoof

Go away with this ****e.

I thought that had been put out of its misery!
Another runway at Dublin is all that's needed.

marno21

Such absolute ****e.

Leinster has one airport but that airport alone carries 5x the traffic of all the others put together. And the fact that they are proposing putting this airport on a motorway that's 1 hour from Dublin Airport.

The money would be much better spent on improving surface transport infrastructure in the midlands and revitalising town centres to get people living in them rather than everyone living out in the countryside and driving into towns then complaining about the town being a ****hole yet there's no one living in it.

Zebra3

Weston is also in Leinster.

marno21

Zebra3 wrote: »

Weston is also in Leinster.

Weston doesn't have any scheduled passenger services (then again nowadays neither has Waterford or Sligo)

Sam Russell

Galway Airport (now closed) is 2 hours from Dublin Airport - motorway all the way. Why would anyone try to compete with Dublin Airport when other smaller airports have closed?