Kerry Airport
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| Kerry Airport Aerphort Chiarraí |
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| IATA: KIR - ICAO: EIKY | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Operator | Kerry Airport | ||
| Serves | Farranfore | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 113 ft (35 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08/26 | 6,562 | 2,000 | asphalt |
Kerry Airport (IATA: KIR, ICAO: EIKY), or Aerphort Chiarraí in Irish, often called Farranfore Airport, is an airport in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. It is 15 minutes from Killarney and the Ring of Kerry, and 20 minutes from Tralee. It is just over one hour from both Cork and Limerick cities using the newly constructed bypass roads. The nearest Iarnród Éireann railway station is Farranfore - 500 metres walk. A new airport bus terminal opened in Jan 2006 which has hourly bus service to Cork, Limerick, Tralee and Killarney. Over two million passengers have traveled through Kerry Airport since its first scheduled flight in 1989. Aer Arann and Ryanair are the scheduled airlines operating from the airport.
The first aircraft to land at Kerry was flown by Captain Milo Carr of the Department of Transport and Power on 25 August 1969. The first scheduled flight from Kerry Airport was on 22 May 1989 to Dublin by Aer Lingus, followed the next day by Ryanair to London Luton. The first large passenger jet to use the new facility was a Boeing 757. The first Transatlantic charter flight was operated by American Trans Air from New York.
Ryanair introduced its Kerry to Frankfurt (Hahn) service on 1 April 2003. The airport is a PLC but not quoted on any stock exchange. It had a profit of EURO 385,000 in 2004 on a turnover of EURO 6.4 million. The main shareholders in Kerry Airport are the Kerry Group, Bin Mahfouz family, Kerry County Council, ESB - Irish National Electricity Company and Denis Kelleher.
Kerry Airport employs 49 people and is reported to offer some of the lowest costs to airlines in Europe.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following scheduled airlines use Kerry Airport (at December 2006):
- Aer Arann (Dublin, Manchester, Lorient Airport)
- Ryanair (Frankfurt (Hahn), London Stansted, Liverpool [ends 16 January 2007])
[edit] Government support
The Irish Government subvents regional services under a Public Service Obligation programme. A tender is offered for airlines to provide a minimum level of service in return for subsidy and a monopoly of the route. The tender is published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Aer Arann were recently re-awarded the PSO for the 2005 offer programme.
[edit] Ground transportation
A Shuttle Bus operates in conjunction with the Ryanair Frankfurt service to Farranfore and Killarney with transfers to Tralee and An Daingean/Dingle.
Kerry Airport has a new bus terminal which opened in January 2006 which has scheduled bus service throughout Ireland.
The airport is 500 metres from Farranfore village via a lit footpath which has an Iarnród Éireann railway station.
Car hire and taxi services are available.
[edit] Airport data
Kerry Airport has a new runway 2,000m x 45m which was opened in May 1994. It developed from a runway of 1,090m x 23m in 1969 to a runway of 1239m x 30m in 1989.
- Aerodrome Reference Point:
- Elevation: 113ft AMSL
- Reference Temperature: 18.6 (July)
- Magnetic Variation: 08.22W (1994) Annual Decrease 09.2
- Runway: 08/26
- Dimensions: 2,000 metre x 45 metre Asphalt Surface
- Lighting: Runway Edge Threshold, End, Taxiway, Apron
- PAPI: Runway 26 3 degrees. Runway 08 3 degrees
- Approach: Runway 26 CAT 1 Calvert 900 m with five crossbars. Runway 08 ILS 420m C/L with one crossbar
- Instrument Approaches: Runway 26 ILS. Runway 08 NDB/DME
- ILS: CAT 1
- Fire Cover: CAT 6
- PCN: 44/F/C/W/T
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Kerry Airport
- Car Hire Services
- Google Maps view of the airport and nearby village, roads and rail line
