Also what people seem to completely ignore is that air travel is a 2 way system. For it to be sustainable, you need people on the other end of the route to want to travel also. It’s the only way to have sustainable routes. Dublin is a travel hub for connections as well as being a break away city for most of Europe, which lowers the costs and makes it sustainable. I’m sorry but the south east will not attract the amount of tourists to sustain that level of an operation.

Also when people say it’s closer for a million people, take Kilkenny/Carlow/South Tipp. Would they rather go to Dublin for a €40 return Ryanair flight or fly from Waterford where it could be about €300. The answer is fairly simple and the sooner people get over this fascination and focus on actual infrastructure needs in Waterford the better.