Airport Knock
Ireland West Airport Knock Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | EIKN |
IATA code | NOC |
Coordinates | |
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
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 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.