Aer Arann fleet at the moment is as follows, ATR 42-300 EI-CBK, EI-CPT, EI-BYO, EI-EHH. ATR 72-200 EI-REH, EI-REI. ATR 72-212 EI-SLL, EI-SLM, EI-SLN. ATR 72-500 EI-REL, EI-REM, EI-REO, EI-REP. EI-SLL, EI-SLM, EI-SLN. Also DO 328 G-CCGS, G-BWWT and G-BWIR have been hired in at different times over re...

Yes indeed, a very different low cost airline than it is now and with a Bandeirante at that. Since then the contrast could not be greater between airline and airport. The airline I suppose could not have been more successful, as for the airport it seems to have struggled at times during the past 25 ...

Festina lente!

'One mistake I think on the main organiser was not to contact the airfield operators for what was a sizeable amount of aircraft, but these things happen'

As Abbeyshrule is like most a PPR airfield, surely all the aircraft that attended had prior permission to land at the field?

I remember the Hughes operating in and out of the Bord Gais compound at Little Island, Cork, possibly in connection with gas pipeline work at the time?

Have we not strayed a little from the original topic, perhaps Irish Helicopters deserves a thread of it's own?

Hi,
Thought John Nichol was an R.A.F. navigator rather than a pilot?
Regards.

Sounds like the DC8 that went into Bal today ZS-OSI I think.

EIWF also.

Tower paint job on the way soon, contractor waiting for suitable weather!

Dave,
I think you'll find that EIWF has full time ATC now, also prior permission is required.
Hoss.

If still available please PM.
Thanks.

Might be because there is a big #2 on the second new fire tender !!

Interesting to see Mick O'Leary rushing to Shannon's support, I wonder could it have anything to do with the report in the September 2007 issue of Airliner World magazine that 'Ryanair is set to announce a major expansion of flights from Northern Ireland (according to the Irish press). It is underst...

Hi Andrew, Would you like to quote the source of your speculation regarding the 146 operation? For your info these routes were scheduled to operate to the end of September from day one, as can be seen on www.slatterys.com (and there is still availability through to the end of September). Whether som...

Tuesday 28th August, hardly a public show, maybe a families day? Still unlikely to be on a Tuesday.