Waterford Airport.

yup, this is what i believe the airport should be aiming for, for the short term, i just dont see it being viable for passengers for some time, relying on a single airline to rock up, i.e. ryanair, is one extremely risky strategy, even if they do, it means the whole process requires them sticking around, which means theyd have the airport over a barrel, and god only knows what games theyd play!

flown out of there a couple of times, it was fantastic, it would be great to have the option again, but…..

Target with a 737/a320 capable runway is low cost airlines not regional ones.

easyJet
Wizz Air
Norwegian
Eurowings
Vueling

Have all had a look at breaking into Ireland more substantially.

Or indeed Ryanair hold the fort.

Any proposal that involves halving the passenger traffic through Dublin Airport just cannot be taken seriously.

It's worth emailing our national representatives, after all, 3 of the 5 their party are in government.

No doubt they will respond with a load of waffle and state how they are working tirelessly to deliver it but never any harm in calling them out on it.

I agree, but still worth calling them out on it

Very true! The motorway is needed but it just goes to show you the crap we get dealt with in the South East. We don’t even get the crumbs now and they don’t even hide the fact of it.

Sure ye have a motorway to Dublin!

5-6 billion euro of taxpayers money to bring a water pipe from the Shannon over to Dublin.

No discussion

No reports

It's just rubber stamped,work to start straight away.were been taking for mugs in this region and our elected representatives just want to tow the party line

Mary butler as useful as a chocolate fireguard

David Cullinane has completely disappeared

Matt Shanahan Fianna gael lacky

Marc Casey spoofer

I hope this is remembered when elections come about

They didnt get to be billionaires by soending their own money now did they ..?

So you want to spend billions on expanding Cork, Shannon, Knock, for demand that isn't there, why exactly? and meanwhile prevent the proper use of an airport already built and paid for, which already has that demand (and more).

This is complete nonsense and should not be entertained for a millsecond.

Woeful is an understatement. He has done absolutely nothing in regards to the airport.

the new CEO of council may have some fresh ideas on how to get da moo-la from the greens 4 dis project and get it up and running…?

David Cullinane is going to be a busted flush. The sad thing is he is more capable than any of them apart from maybe Matt Shanahan. When I think of a Waterford politician having a meeting with the powers that be I immediately think of the movie "Dinner for schmucks".

They are not being milked.They are milking.Dublin airport does not belong to Dublin it is merely located there which was reasonable back in the day when Dublin wasn't congested.But planning in Dublin has been an abject failure which is the fault of Dublin and Dublin alone..Now its economically overheated and it makes sense to consider more cost effective options. Dublin milks plenty of money from other places. There is very little intellectual property actually emanating from Dublin that doesn't originate somewhere else. As for human capital it would be nothing without the rest of the country. Dublin isn't some sort of autarkey. The airports customer base is the whole country. The alternative would be to get Dublin City Council to pay for the thing and restrict the customer base to those living in Dublin. How would that suit you?

Ambitious enough? If the board had gone down that road he would have rejected it saying it was unrealistic.

He clearly doesn't want it - that is not letting FG/FF off the hook either as I don't hear other ministers coming out in support of it.

It bothers me beyond belief that a piece of infrastructure is not being used to its full potential all because of a lack of government interest.

has anyone checked if the project has even been tendered/priced…..if not then you could add a year before a sod is turned….?

This made me laugh, such navel gazing mopery. As a fact check, Dublin has about the biggest infrastructure deficit of any EU capital, the worst housing situation and is not even policed. taxes spent in Dublin per head of population are well below every other region.

Air connectivity? try getting a reasonable city bus service, an hourly train to Dublin and a decent road to Cork, crawl before running.

there have been about a decades worth or reports and discussion on this project.

That would be a devastating policy for any small country such as ours with one hub airport. It's scale at one location that opens up more destinations and economies of scale, We are not Germany, we have one medium sized city and airport, diluting that into pissy regional airports near large towns would limit us to a few regional flights to the UK and northern France. The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Iceland etc. all follow this model because they're not stupid, they know they are not Germany, France or the UK.

You can't keep expanding Dublin pax without adding necessary infrastructure such as heavy rail direct from the regional cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.. Metro North is not the solution for the regions.. Dublín airport is physically located in the wrong place to service the country as it is north of the city without heavy rail access.. We all know that the M50 is like a car park during peak hours.

Choices are in order of preference

1.)Spend on heavy rail (Hourly departures from Regional cities) with spur from Heuston to Dublin Airport and use existing airport in Dublin to cater for growing population.. This is what advanced economies do

2.)Open new airport near kilcullen / Kikdare where m7 (M8) /m9 merge with heavy rail access servicing most of the population centers in the country

3.) Invest in regional airports

Amazing that we have to constantly fight the argument for balanced regional development. It’s not going to be an international airport on the scale of Heathrow. It will give our region connectivity to UK/Europe that we currently don’t have but all other regions in the country do. How is that fair?

The airport isn't closed, just no airlines want to use it. As you say there is no guarantee an extension will change that.