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Aer Arann—Ireland’s regional airline—re-launched its daily return flights from Ireland West Airport Knock to Dublin on Wednesday, with an early morning flight and return evening flight available on the Public Service Obligation (PSO) service.

Ireland West Airport Knock has announced that following a competitive tendering procedure, Michael McNamara & Co have been awarded the construction contracts for two major infrastructural projects at the airport; namely the implementation of CAT II ILS (instrument landing system) on Runway 27 and the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) works on the 09 end of the runway, a combined value of €3.6M.

During this week’s meeting at the joint Oireachtas committee on transport, the group MD along with the CEO of Ireland West Airport Knock urged the Government to address and amend a number of aviation policies which are adversely affecting growth at the international airport and which are conferring unfair competitive advantages on other airports in Ireland.

Ireland West Airport Knock has welcomed Aer Lingus’s return to the west of Ireland following agreement to commence an Aer Lingus London Gatwick service in April 2009. The decision will provide the airport and the region with interlinking capabilities connecting business interests and tourism traffic in both directions. It will add an additional 127,000 annual seat capacity at Ireland West Airport Knock, increasing its share of the Irish regional market to the UK to almost 20 per cent.

Despite the turmoil in the international aviation industry, Ireland West Airport has reported that it has had its busiest year ever last year, but it has called on key stakeholders in the region to help them secure new route opportunities in 2009.

The board of Ireland West Airport Knock has announced that Joe Kennedy is retiring from his position as chairman of the airport’s board after a period of six and a half years and that Liam Scollan, former group managing director, will succeed Mr Kennedy as the board’s new chairman.

Ireland West Airport Knock CEO Robert Grealis has decided to step down from his position following a period of over four years at the helm of the airport.

Robert Grealis, the former CEO of Ireland West Airport, has been appointed consulting partner at the Discovery Partnership, the national business consultancy for small and medium enterprises.

The Mayo Open Coffee Club (MOCC), a business network run by business people for business people, is launching its winter series of monthly meetings on Wednesday, October 7, in Castlebar.

Social media expert Johnny Beirne will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club (MOCC), a business network run by businesspeople for businesspeople.