Kerry Airport - News & Updates

Eindhoven might work as a gateway to Amsterdam.

Problem with Emerald airlines is the ATR's, fares would be too high to any UK city, leaving plenty of room for Ryanair to obliterate them.

If stobart didn't do those routes when they flew to Kerry, there's absolutely no chance now.

Airport is also limited by runway size I think I've heard before, a flight to Lanzarote may not be viable.

A bus and two trains to get to Amsterdam from Eindhoven. Not ideal

What used bug me about eindhoven was the two cans of fizz taped together in the shop. Ridiclious.

Its been a long time now since i was there. We used fly out when working for a crowd in Dublin. its all Amsterdam now.

I remember also being moved from one area to another like cows when boarding and one day the heat was so bad that people felt unwell when standing in a que for 20 minutes outside the aircraft.

No. Unless they absolutely require the votes of Kerry TDs. And both would require someone with slots to want to do it. LHR had slots available for UK domestic routes which is why there are some oddities like Loganair to Teesside and Isle of Man but anyone wanting to do KIR would have to have or buy slot pair(s). AMS don't have any slots available and officially no method to buy them; so it would have to be made more commercially viable than another flight.

If there was a specific effort to decentralise tourist traffic in to the country, looking to get a UK or Euro flight in to Carrickfinn would be higher priority than assisting an airport that already has flights to London and the Continent to get what are seen as better ones.

In the past, when there were more smaller airlines with suitable aircraft, there were all sorts of nuts inbound tourist routes - Zurich to Enniskillen, Rotterdam to Carrickfinn etc.

The Kerry-Berlin route should be reinstated. It’s disgraceful that outside of Dublin, no other airport in the country serves the German capital.

That would be nice, but they tried LCY - Cork several years ago and it just didn't work. Not enough interest.

...... ehh .. Stobart gone bust since 2021!!

I flew the old Stobart flight connecting to EI and indeed BA many times and generally saw 8 pax on board- for most people it was just too dear unless connecting on a thru ticket which won't be an option for Ryanair. If its pulled is the subvention gone too?

This seems very strange. Could be a typical Ryanair tactic.

Oh look, nobody is flying the route. Can we have that PSO now please. Sure nobody else will want it and Emerald are now fully committed for their summer schedule and expanding, so wouldn’t have time or resources for a PSO to Kerry.

It certainly doesn't seem guaranteed that it would be restored.

https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-airport-ceo-wants-commitment-to-reinstating-pso-on-dublin-route-if-needed-314422

The current train journey to Tralee is approx 4hrs.

I can’t see any improvements to the rail services reducing the journey to 3hrs or less.

As a country we just don’t do big public infrastructure. How long as the Metro been in the pipeline?!

The rail service Tralee to Dublin is dire. When I was going to college in Dublin some 35 odd years ago you were changing in Mallow half the time. Off out in the cold on a winters night, over a bridge, changing platforms and frozen by the time you got on the next train. 40 years on, same story! I used the Stobbart PSO a lot because the times were excellent. Now with the train service so dire or else get the bus, the only option for me when I need to be in Dublin for an early morning meeting is to drive. And drive back that evening. Approx 7 hours driving as opposed to less than two flying. Therefore I'd love the see the PSO reinstated and the Green minister can take a running jump! As for RA doubling their price, not surprised, but in any case the times are useless for business travel day trips.

Am sure the people in Kerry are happy paying their taxes towards Dublin Bus ... but that’s life I suppose. I don’t like paying my taxes... full stop.

Taxes are wasted on plenty of rubbish in this country. In my humble opinion taxes to pay for connectivity from the more inaccessible parts of Ireland to and from the capital, helping to promote tourism and industry and provide jobs, is of benefit to the entire country and certainly not a waste.

Very surprising for Kerry, however there's likely good inbound tourism potential there. Can't imagine many locals have ever heard of this airline, or even the places they fly to. I'd never heard of Quimper.