Kerry Airport
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Kerry Airport Farranfore Airport Aerfort Chiarraí |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Kerry Airport Plc | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tralee / Killarney, Ireland | ||||||||||
| Location | Farranfore, County Kerry | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 112 ft / 34 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°10′51″N 009°31′26″W / 52.18083°N 9.52389°WCoordinates: 52°10′51″N 009°31′26″W / 52.18083°N 9.52389°W | ||||||||||
| Website | www.kerryairport.ie | ||||||||||
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Source: Irish AIS
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| Passengers | 303,039 |
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| Passenger change 14-15 |
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Kerry Airport (Irish: Aerfort Chiarraí), often called Farranfore Airport, is a regional airport in Farranfore, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. It is 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) north of Killarney and the Ring of Kerry, and 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south-east of Tralee. Passenger services are operated by Stobart Air for Aer Lingus Regional, and Ryanair. In 2016 Kerry Airport handled 325,000 passengers an increase of 6% over 2015.
Kerry Airport was incorporated as a public limited company in July 1968 with its main objective of building and managing an airport at Farranfore. Various share capital fund raising programmes were undertaken and together with great assistance from the various statutory bodies over the years, the airport has developed from a runway of 1,090 metres x 23 metres commissioned in 1969 to a runway of 1,239m x 30m commissioned in 1989 and a new runway of 2,000m x 45m was opened in May 1994.
On 25 August 1969 the first aircraft to land at Kerry Airport was piloted by Captain Milo Carr of the Department of Transport & Power. For a number of years the only aircraft using the aerodrome were light private aircraft and the occasional charter or cargo flight and also extensive parachuting took place. The first scheduled service was inaugurated in July 1979 using an islander aircraft operated by Aer Arann.
Encouraged by the apparent success of other regional airports in Ireland, the board of directors drew up a development plan to lengthen and widen the runway to 1,200m x 30m and to extend and upgrade the Terminal Buildings and to install an Instrument Landing System and appropriate lighting.
The runway was completed on schedule and the first scheduled flight into Kerry was on 22 May 1989 from Dublin by Aer Lingus followed the next day by Ryanair from London-Luton. On May 1993, the contract for the new runway of 2,000m x 45m and New Terminal was signed and the official "Sod Turning" was performed by An Tánaiste, Mr. Dick Spring TD.
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