2013 Passenger Numbers for Cork, Dublin, Shannon and Knock Airports.

2013 has been a really good year for Air Passenger Numbers in and out of Ireland. Today's blogpost will show passenger numbers for Cork, Dublin, Shannon and Knock Airports in 2013. 

AIRPORT                   2013 NUMBERS                2012 NUMBERS               DIFFERENCE 

Dublin Airport                  20,200,000                         19,099,649                     UP 6%

Cork Airport                     2,360,512                           2,340,141                       UP 1%

Shannon Airport               1,400,032                           1,394,781                       UP 1%

Knock Airport                   665,000                              685,000                         DOWN 1%

TOTAL                             24,696,544                         23,519,571                     UP 6%         

Out of the four airports above, Cork and Shannon. Cork Airport saw it's first increase in passenger numbers for the first time since 2009 and Shannon saw first time increase since 2008. 

Aer Lingus Regional

Aer Lingus Regional operated by Aer Arann is Ireland's Regional Airline. The airline was founded on 26 January 2010 and commenced operations on 28 March 2010. The airline has bases at Cork, Dublin & Shannon Airports. The airline operates a fleet of 13 aircraft with 18 destinations. The airline's fleet consists of ATR42 & ATR72 aircraft. The airline has 3 generations of ATR72 aircraft.

        

                                                                ATR42-300

        

                                                            ATR72-201

         

                                                                ATR72-500

           

                                                             ATR72-600

          

BMI Baby

BMI Baby another favourite for spotters at Cork Airport. BMI Baby operated a number of routes from Cork to the UK in the 8 years it operated to/from Cork. Routes that BMI Baby operated from Cork were Birmingham, Cardiff, Durham Tees Valley, & East Midlands, the last route to operate was Manchester and that ceased in April 2010. BMI Baby was founded on 24 January 2002, started operations on 22 March 2002 and ceased operations on 9 September 2012. BMI Baby had an all Boeing fleet with Boeing 737-300's and 737-500's. Before the airline's closure it operated 12 Boeing 737-300 and 2 Boeing 737-500 aircraft bringing it to a total of 14 aircraft. BMI Baby had bases in most UK Airports, that was Belfast City, Birmingham, Cardiff, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands & Manchester. In 2006 the airline closed the Durham base due to insufficiant passenger numbers. The bases in Cardiff and Manchester were closed in 2011 to make was for the expansion of the East Midlands base and to open a new base at Belfast City, however the base at Belfast City, didn't even last 12 months, and closed in June 2012. Birmingham & East Midlands were the last base to close and they closed with the airline on 9 September. The last BMI Baby flight to operate was BMI Baby WW5330 from Málaga to East Midlands.

BMI BABY AIRCRAFT

 BMI Baby, Boeing 737-300 aircraft G-TOYM

BMI Baby, Boeing 737-500 aircraft G-BVKB

BYE BYE!! BABY!! MY BAGS ARE PACKED, & IT'S TIME TO GO!! IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE!!

Jet2.com

Another one of my favourites: Jet2.com a great airline!! Jet2 fly Cork to Newcastle on Mondays & Fridays at 1745. Jet2 was founded in October 2002 and commenced operations on 12 February 2003. Cork is Jet2's only scheduled service to the Republic of Ireland. The airline have a base at Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland. In total the airline have 9 bases, ''Alicante, Belfast, Blackpool, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow INT, Leeds Bradford (HQ), Manchester, & Newcastle.'' In 2012, the airline carried 4.7 million passengers, the highest record ever. Jet2 operate an all Boeing fleet with Boeing 737 & Boeing 757 aircraft. The airline have 30 Boeing 737-300 aircraft, 1 Boeing 737-300 frieght aircraft, 6 Boeing 737-800 aircraft & 11 Boeing 757-200 aircraft. The airline have no orders and have a fleet total of 47 aircraft. Jet2 also operate Charter & Air Cargo services.

Jet2 Aircraft.

Jet2.com Boeing 737-300 aircraft, G-CELC

Jet2.com Boeing 737-800 aircraft G-GDFC

 Jet2.com Boeing 757-200 aircraft G-LSAG

Air Dolomiti

Air Dolomiti is an Italian Regional airline based in Verona, Italy. The airline is a partner of Lufthansa Regional, linking destinations to the Lufthansa hub in Munich. Air Dolomiti, was founded on 30 December 1989, by Linee Aeree Europee (L.A.E). Air Dolomiti's name it said to have originated from the section of the Alpes, called the Dolomites. Air Dolomiti operate a fleet of 20 aircraft with Embraer E-195's and ATR72-500's, the airline has 10 of each aircraft. The ATR72 seats 64 passengers and the E-195 seats 116. Air Dolomiti operates out of Cork to Verona every Saturday between May and September, with an Embraer E-195. The airline is planning to phase out the ATR72 aircraft from the fleet in 2014. The CEO of Air Dolomiti is also the CEO of Italy's entire Lufthansa division. 


AIR DOLOMITI ATR72-500

AIR DOLOMITI EMBRAER E-195