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North American airlines serving Ireland include Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. Ireland is well connected with Europe mainly through Dublin, Shannon and Cork Airports. The United Kingdom is the most flown to country from Ireland. [1] Transatlantic flights are available at Dublin Airport and Shannon Airports.
Cobh (/ ˈ k oʊ v / KOHV, Irish: An Cóbh), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census, [2] Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area ...
Queenstown Airport: Queenstown: New Zealand: ZQN/NZQN: 2,140,669 [19] Data taken from June 2018 19: ... World's busiest city airport systems by passenger traffic ...
Queenstown International Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is an international airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, which serves the resort town of Queenstown. The airport handled 2.10 million passengers as of 2024 [ 3 ] making it the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.
Great Island (Irish: An tOileán Mór) [3] is an island in Cork Harbour, at the mouth of the River Lee and close to the city of Cork, Ireland. The largest town on the island is Cobh (called Queenstown from 1849 to 1920). The island's economic and social history has historically been linked to the naval, ship-building, and shipping activities in ...
On 3 March 2013, Invercargill handled over 400 passengers on international flights that were diverted from Queenstown due to low cloud [12] while on 17 June 2024, Virgin Australia Flight 148, a Boeing 737-800 service from Queenstown to Melbourne, was diverted to Invercargill after one of the engines stalled from a bird strike while taking off ...
With the development and growth of transatlantic air traffic Cobh lost its importance as a mail and passenger centre. A significant part of the train station remained largely unused until the opening of the Cobh Heritage Centre in the front part of the station in the 1980s. At that time the station was also reduced to a single platform.
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.