Kerry Airport eyeing up new routes

Passenger numbers at Kerry Airport fell slightly in 2014, according to the regional airport’s results announced yesterday.

More than 295,000 people used the airport which has a regional connection to Dublin, along with two London connections and regular flights to Frankfurt Hahn in Germany. Summer connections include Faro in Portugal and Alicante in Spain. In all 295,521 passengers travelled through Kerry Airport in 2014. The numbers represented an annual drop of 4%. This was largely due to airline consolidation, according to the airport.

However, the Kerry to Dublin and Dublin to Kerry regional flight, which is subsidised under the public service obligation grant, saw growth of 13.5% and this is regarded as crucial to the airport’s continuing growth.