Airport Knock

Ireland West Airport Knock ; Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire
Characteristics
ICAO code	EIKN
IATA code	NOC
Coordinates	53 ° 54'37 " N , 8 ° 49'7" W Coordinates: 53 ° 54'37 " N , 8 ° 49'7" W.
Height above MSL	203 m (666 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	3.5 miles south of Charlestown
Street	N17
Local transport	bus
Basic data
opening	1986
operator	Connaught Airport Development Company
Terminals	1
Passengers	805,443 (2019)
Air freight	12 t (2019)
Flight ; movements	6,330 (2019)
Start-and runway
09/27	2300 m × 45 m asphalt

The Ireland West Airport Knock ( IATA : NOC , ICAO : EIKN ; Irish Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire ) is a small international commercial airport about 21 kilometers northeast of Knock in County Mayo in the northwest of Ireland .

history

The construction of the airport was decided on an initiative of the priest James Horan; The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1980 . opened on May 30, 1986 under the name Horan International Airport . In 2005 about 500,000 passengers used the airport.

Since 2006 his name has been Ireland West Airport Knock .

For some years now, Knock Airport has also increasingly served as an aircraft graveyard , where aircraft are parked during temporary decommissioning, or else cannibalized and recycled. So one was on February 20, 2020 Airbus A380 of Air France ( air vehicle registration number F-HPJB ) transferred to Knock to be cannibalized to there.

Airlines and Destinations

Mainly British destinations and holiday destinations on the Mediterranean are served . The largest local airline is Ryanair . From May 2012 Lufthansa offered flights from Düsseldorf Airport to Knock in the summer months . From May 2014, Germanwings served Knock once a week from Cologne / Bonn Airport .

Another important factor are charter flights for the approximately 1.5 million pilgrims who visit the pilgrimage site of Knock every year . Various travel agencies also offer the airport as a starting point for the fishing areas in the north-west of the country. There is no rail connection to the town of Knock (around 700 inhabitants). A bus runs twice a day for the residents who work there.

Web links

Commons : Ireland West Airport Knock - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of Ireland West Airport Knock (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Aviation Statistics. CSO.ie , accessed June 9, 2020 .
↑ Der Spiegel 33/1986: Command in the heart
↑ ^a ^b ^c archive.org
↑ planespotters , accessed June 6, 2020.
↑ Simple Flying: Air France's First Retired Airbus A380 Completes Its Final Flight , February 20, 2020 (English), accessed on June 6, 2020.
↑ Ireland West Airport Knock: Europes largest airline, and the worlds fourth biggest airline, Lufthansa, announces new services from Germany to Ireland West Airport Knock ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 14, 2011.

[statistics-1] Aviation Statistics. CSO.ie , accessed June 9, 2020 .

[sp1-2] Der Spiegel 33/1986: Command in the heart

[archive-3] rchive.org

[4] spotters , accessed June 6, 2020.

[5] Simple Flying: Air France's First Retired Airbus A380 Completes Its Final Flight , February 20, 2020 (English), accessed on June 6, 2020.

[6] Ireland West Airport Knock: Europes largest airline, and the worlds fourth biggest airline, Lufthansa, announces new services from Germany to Ireland West Airport Knock ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 14, 2011.