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    #662
    Johnny901
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Johnny901


    man98 wrote: »
    During the winter they were diverting quite often I noticed. I didn't realise there was ILS on RWY 21, thought it was just a VOR DME beacon. The minimum viability at Waterford is quite high so not only during the storms, but also in generally poor weather they were some diversions. As regards Halligan's funding, we'll wait and see. The flights were bookable via a third party website for €130 however, and I was quite tempted to use it this summer. Pity about it all.

    The minima for the ILS at Waterford is not high it is standard ILS Cat One. (200ft 800m) the airport is at sea level 119 ft so they don't have many poor visibility / low cloud base related diversions. Crosswinds this winter have been the issue for Irish Airports.

    There is no VOR at the airport (all the info for Waterford is on their website)


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    #663
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,170 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    WAT is regularly subjected to Fog and mist.


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    #664
    JCX BXC
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    Last scheduled passenger commercial flight departed at 14:35. The aircraft did not return to WAT this evening, but instead positioned to Rotterdam. That's the end of passenger ops at WAT for the foreseeable future.


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    #665
    Locker10a
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    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Last scheduled passenger commercial flight departed at 14:35. The aircraft did not return to WAT this evening, but instead positioned to Rotterdam. That's the end of passenger ops at WAT for the foreseeable future.
    That's very sad, has WAT ever been in the situation before? Where there are no pax flights ?


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    #666
    JCX BXC
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    Locker10a wrote: »
    That's very sad, has WAT ever been in the situation before? Where there are no pax flights ?

    There was a month between Flybe finishing in March and VLM starting in April last year.


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    #667
    Locker10a
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    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Locker10a wrote: »
    That's very sad, has WAT ever been in the situation before? Where there are no pax flights ?

    There was a month between Flybe finishing in March and VLM starting in April last year.
    I guess flybe are WAT's only hope now ?


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    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,170 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Locker10a wrote: »
    I guess flybe are WAT's only hope now ?

    Maybe Stobart? They are axing a few routes from Dublin in October.


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    #669
    questionmark?
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    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Maybe Stobart? They are axing a few routes from Dublin in October.

    Doesn't appear that Waterford would suit Stobarts business model although they may surprise us. Although if they flew in Aer Lingus Regional colours with good prices the route may well work.


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    #670
    Cosmo Kramer
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    This all happened very quickly. In the space of a week Waterford has gone from looking at double daily London flights for the summer and foreseeable future beyond that to no scheduled services. Hopefully something can be found but if Stobart, Flybe and VLM have all tried and failed it's hard to know who can step in now to make a service work.


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    #671
    fr336
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    According to someone on PPrune WAT have been talking to other airlines for a few months now - they reckon four which I find hard to believe, but who knows. I guess the Stobart situation in Dublin could be a faint positive for WAT but...


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    #672
    questionmark?
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    fr336 wrote: »
    According to someone on PPrune WAT have been talking to other airlines for a few months now - they reckon four which I find hard to believe, but who knows. I guess the Stobart situation in Dublin could be a faint positive for WAT but...

    Four? Really?


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    #673
    L1011
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    Stobart/flybe to return, bmi regional and Eastern all make sense to try convince / incentivise and make 4


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    #674
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Is there a market for shipping food, such as fresh seafood, out of there, with a cargo operator? It might surprise you to know how much seafood is shipped by air from Ireland.


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    #675
    Bsal
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    VLM has filed for bankruptcy today

    https://flyvlm.com/


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    #676
    questionmark?
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    Bsal wrote: »
    VLM has filed for bankruptcy today

    https://flyvlm.com/

    May work in Waterfords favour to say the company was a failure and not the Luton route?


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    #677
    chillin117
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    How many people were flying in/out weekly ?


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    #678
    dzilla
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    http://www.waterford-news.ie/2016/09/14/minister-ross-announces-funding-for-waterford-airport/#.V9kvyS0nUxY.facebook

    Funding for periphery and auxiliary services dependent on a carrier coming in.

    Any of ye guys hear anything on the grapevine?


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    #679
    fr336
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    Rumour over on Pprune that flights to London will resume in March....


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    #680
    Jamie2k9
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    fr336 wrote: »
    Rumour over on Pprune that flights to London will resume in March....

    It came from here!


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    #681
    dzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭dzilla


    Yes unfortunately the PPRUNE rumour is just echoing the Waterford City Forum post/


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    #682
    notharrypotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭notharrypotter


    :D:D
    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    It came from here!

    Must be true so


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    #683
    Kenny2012
    Registered Users Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭Kenny2012


    Nice visitor to Waterford over the holidays.

    G-BEXW Piper PA-28-181 Archer II John O'Keefe
    SP-MRC SAAB 340A IG Avion / Skytaxi

    Pictures
    G-BEXW https://flic.kr/p/PwEK85
    SP-MRC https://flic.kr/p/QKyxLL


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    #684
    b757
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    Kenny2012 wrote: »
    Nice visitor to Waterford over the holidays.

    G-BEXW Piper PA-28-181 Archer II John O'Keefe
    SP-MRC SAAB 340A IG Avion / Skytaxi

    Pictures
    G-BEXW https://flic.kr/p/PwEK85
    SP-MRC https://flic.kr/p/QKyxLL

    Managed to get inside that Saab, badly needs a lick of paint/wash. :pac:

    Brought in a crowd of people from the UK to go hunting in the Southeast for a couple of days.


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    #685
    dzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭dzilla


    b757 wrote: »
    Kenny2012 wrote: »
    Nice visitor to Waterford over the holidays.

    G-BEXW Piper PA-28-181 Archer II John O'Keefe
    SP-MRC SAAB 340A IG Avion / Skytaxi

    Pictures
    G-BEXW https://flic.kr/p/PwEK85
    SP-MRC https://flic.kr/p/QKyxLL

    Managed to get inside that Saab, badly needs a lick of paint/wash. :pac:

    Brought in a crowd of people from the UK to go hunting in the Southeast for a couple of days.

    Lovely plane, saw it coming in over the house,wonder did anyone say to them any chance of a regular taxi over and back to London :D


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    #686
    CelticRambler
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    You might have a chance - they've just dropped two services (out of three) to/from my local airport due to "disappointing" forward bookings. Might have helped if they'd adverstised ... :-/


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    #687
    dzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭dzilla


    https://fora.ie/waterford-airport-3228572-Feb2017/

    Hopefully some news soon


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    #688
    L1011
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    I would imagine they've been in serious discussions with every possible operator since the day VLM said they were leaving.

    The claims by VLM, Flybe and Stobart that the route was profitable - VLM hitting the wall and the others legitimately saying they had other more profitable routes - may help a little but that's it. Don't give much value to a single sourceless story, basically.


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    #689
    JCX BXC
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    L1011 wrote: »
    I would imagine they've been in serious discussions with every possible operator since the day VLM said they were leaving.

    The claims by VLM, Flybe and Stobart that the route was profitable - VLM hitting the wall and the others legitimately saying they had other more profitable routes - may help a little but that's it. Don't give much value to a single sourceless story, basically.

    Especially off unreputable sources, I've never heard of FOSA before, infact the only FOSA I know of is a group called "Friends of Shannon Airport" ironically.


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    #690
    highlydebased
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    JCX BXC wrote:
    Especially off unreputable sources, I've never heard of FOSA before, infact the only FOSA I know of is a group called "Friends of Shannon Airport" ironically.

    The site quoted is Fora, not Fosa. ]


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    #691
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭VG31


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Especially off unreputable sources, I've never heard of FOSA before, infact the only FOSA I know of is a group called "Friends of Shannon Airport" ironically.

    Fora is the business wing of TheJournal.ie.


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