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THE LEVEL OF flights between North America and Europe handled by the Irish Aviation authority last month has beaten the previous peak set in 2008.
Total flights in Irish airspace in June were up 7.6% on June 2013 with an average of 1,759 flights a day, while flights which pass through Irish airspace but do not land were up 10.7% on last year.
The single busiest day was 24 June, with 1,955 flights.
Throughout the month, the IAA recorded 30,575 en route air traffic movements and 40,515 North Atlantic Communications flights.
Cumulatively from January to June 2014, en route air traffic and flight between Europe and North America were down 1% and up 3.6% respectively when compared to the same period of 2013.
Although air traffic for Dublin and Shannon rose in June 2014 compared with last year, traffic at Cork fell by 8.7% for June 2014.
Irish Aviation Authority Chief Executive Eamonn Brennan described the latest traffic figures as “very encouraging”.
“Irish air traffic continues to gain pace in 2014,” he said. “Irish airspace forms the crucial gateway between Europe and North America and the increase in this traffic is greatly reflective of the continuing global upturn.”
Shannon and Dublin have experienced strong increases in traffic volumes, mainly due to new services operating to and from these airports from airlines such as Ryanair, WestJet, Air Canada Rouge and BA.
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That mad aulwan will put a stop to these shenanigans, flying in our airspace indeed.
And all for a total of zip to the Irish exchequer. Well done again little pixies
Wrong, the pay a fee to pass through our airspace, get you facts right!
Jerry it is feck all they pay.
That’s incorrect on many levels. The airlines are charged route changes for the 350 or so miles they are in Irish airspace. It’s worked out per tonne per mile.
The Irish aviation authority get these charges, and are put towards cost recovery.
The air traffic controllers, Myself included, are paid with this money.
The tax I am deducted goes directly to the exchequer.
All the radar heads, computer systems, support staff, electricity bills and rates are also paid with this money.
So it turns out quite a lot of the money goes straight to the exchequer actually!
July was equally busy as far as I can see, so hopefully it will be another month of growth.
It works out at roughly €24-€28 million per year, not a figure to be laughed at
Sorry jerry I will upgrade the price to next to zip!!
Isn’t it great when people with facts use actual knowledge and logic to dump all over those shouting nonsense about nothing!
Jerry that is laughable for a country with 90% of transatlantic flights using its airspace. It should surely be much much larger than this.
It is dictated by the European union, Ireland has no say in the rate charged.
So tell us Ken, what do we the owners of the IAA pay you?, for watcingh a computer watching a computer on an aircraft., the aircraft and airlines have no choice but to pay the the charges levied by the IAA, and what amount of the money exactly goes to the Irish exchequer?..
Or you could just admit you were wrong?
You the owners infact made a profit last year, so I believe it did not cost you anything. I am not going to post my personal salary on a forum, but the details are out there should you wish to find them for yourself.
I’m not sure why you are so bitter, it was a positive article about growth in Irish airspace, which is a positive thing for the country as a whole.
Think outside your small box for a second, leave the bitterness at door and be happy things are looking up!
Tom. The irish aviation authority is a private company. It pays a yearly fee to the government of approximately 20 mill. Obviously they make a profit. Not sure how much though.
Well done to the ATCs. Great effort in light of dwindling wages. I know they are paid well but I remember thinking when they’re wages were cut “do I really want to be in a plane worrying that the ATC below was worrying about his ability to pay his or her mortgage”.
They earn more than those based at Heathrow
different tax system Bobby !
Earn over £33k pay 40% income tax and 12% national insurance.
In denial Dermo.
How many of these flights were foreign war related…
All of them Frank….
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All of them.
It wouldn’t surprise me if contract military personnel carriers were passed off as civilian….
It’s all a big conspiracy. They’ve been spraying us with their Yankee smallpox. Frank would attach a link like: http://www.underworld.net/conspiracy/not_mainstream/nonsense_for_losers
Gerard McAuliffe …I couldn’t give tow shits about chem trails etc….. Its more to the fact that they openly support terrorism and try to deny it.
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Frank…..What has all your negativity and bullshit about military flights got to do with a good news story from the IAA. We have a positive result for June from the IAA , a fully state owned company , showing positive growth figures , and all you can is bitch about some military flights which are not included in the IAA figures anyway. Such typically Irish negative waffle. Give us a break.
I simply raised a valid point…..
Only days ago we were informed about the latest US security measures requiring passengers to have their cell phones and other electronic devices fully charged before boarding civilian aircraft because of the threat of terrorism …. Three weeks prior to this were told that the same country requested $500 million of tax payers money to support a middle eastern Jihad terrorist group.
The dots do connect…
Frank…Security precautions and requirements ,again , have nothing to with a positive news story from the IAA. The IAA are not responsable for Airport security The IAA are not even involved in the running of the Airports . There is no connection . What Jihaddist group received $500m support. The only “Jihaddist” ( The meaning of Jihad is holy war BTW ) group that receives US support is The Isreali military.
The US supporting Israel is supporting genocide in itself..
BTW Bo*** ix….the US has been openly being supping head hacking rebels in Syria for several years now which is now the root cause of ISIS / ISIL in Iraq.. Both the same terror group and both slaughter Christians and moderate Muslims.
I gather you must be a shill if you cannot admit this.
If the story was about 2 penguins in Antarctica, Frank would still post some hate about America.
The bigot.
To many airports in Ireland for 6.2 million people.
The jet contrails are getting thicker and lasting longer. What are they mixing with the jet fuel? Are the chemtrail conspiracy people correct? I’ ve been sneezing all the summer.
They are spraying in the skies. Check out the documentaries online. confirmed by scientists around the world but ignored by mainstream media and governments.
Just as many swallows flew over as the mass emigration of 1948. All very fascinating stuff.
“The single busiest day was 24 June, with 1,955 flights.” and every one of them stiffed for €45 for the privilege of saying “Hi” to Shanwick
Where’s that w@nker that likes to say people “choose” to fly to airports, what’s he got to say about Shannon now.
Whats this story got to do with flying to Shannon or not . This about Irish airspace , not the airports…
Climate change
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