Waterford Airport.

Yes, but all of that calculation took time and effort, and reduced the landing distance on 25, because the Aviation Regulator doesn't have a look out of the window of an aircraft landing to decide whether it meets the requirements

I am pretty sure that the planning application would have been submitted to the Irish Aviation Authority (as the statutory body responsible for matters aeronautical) for their comments re length, width, orientation etc and had it not been, it would be dismissed by government out of hand. One presumes there must be some level of expertise attached to dealing with an airport planning application.

Reminds me of the "caution,Low flying aircraft " sign , that was on the kinsale road approaching the airport - not sure if its still there,

always wondered was i expected to duck 🦆😂

No its not in the public domain, I assume there is a reasoning they are keeping a low profile, but it is a fact that it was received on the said date.

I have read the business plan and whilst not wonderful it is a strong case but is a tad shy on where exactly the future revenue streams will be exactly, but again I assume they did not want to show whose cake they were going to eat.

6 billion per year to NGOs, billions to Ukraine and other refugees and countless hundreds of millions to immigrants and they can't find a lousy 12m for capital infrastructure to serve 600K Irish citizens in the SE.. It's criminal how they are blowing away our future

i wouldn't think that cork or dublin would care too much, cork are probably more concerned with KIR/SNN and dublin couldn't care less. i'd be more worried about the greens/ eamon ryan blocking this than anything else - if it wasn't for them, we'd likely get the funding just like the 5 million that was approved years ago.

It’s very bad timing with Ryan as minister. It’s shocking how brainwashed this man is. It’s all politics. Hopefully Waterford people won’t forget on Election Day our green TD who still to this day hasn’t supported the airport.

Will you applaud Ryan in a few weeks when the funding is announced?

plenty of us will still be supporting the greens for the next ge, even though theyre truly dreadful at times, even in regards environmental matters....

...or maybe the greens are primarily our main environmentally political party, if another should arise, id more than likely also give them a shout at the ballot box, again, i still dont see waterford being a viable passenger airport, of course i could be wrong, but.....

waterford would more than likely never become a departure airport for the type of destinations i go to, of course it could become one, or maybe even create routes to get to where i go to, but....

...ive actually started to use the bus to dublin, im not sure i ll be driving again, yes this is definitely more environmentally unfriendly than direct flights from Waterford, but....

...there clearly is serious environmental implications from increasing air traffic, but it is the current world we live in, without it, we simply wouldnt have functioning economies, its a catch 22, we currently dont know how to do without this...

Minister Ryan received the plan on Wednesday 13th December 2023. It remains unread, bottom of the pile 7 weeks later.

When's the **** election to get rid of this Ryan turd?

He was sitting behind Ryan during his response, you would have to wonder

So private business is putting up 12 million, government is matching that , and this is a 30 million project ? Where's the other 6 million coming from ? Whos underwriting that , and this 30 million project , its 30 million when ? Inflation and commodities rises boost prices damn quick , who's on the hook for that ,

I assume the main thing that sank commercial flights out of waterford before was the opening of the motorway to Dublin . Thats still there. The 600,000 people that the airport "serves" a good chunk of them will drive or get the bus to Dublin , because its as close to go to Dublin ,

Jaysus , that eamon ryan must be some man for one man ,

He seems to run and control everything in the country , holds the entire purse strings

Reminds me a bit of the bean Garda of old - everything you got a ticket for was only because "THE bean Garda was in the squad car, watching"