Getting around KIR
Kerry Airport sits on the N23 between Killarney and Tralee, in the county the airport’s own site calls Ireland’s most visited region for overseas holidaymakers — the Iveragh peninsula and its Ring of Kerry are part of the same "Destination Kerry" pages that this site publishes. The airport itself has been flying since 1969, when Captain Milo Carr landed the first aircraft on a runway barely a kilometre long; today’s 2,000-metre runway opened in May 1994, the same year Aer Lingus flew in a Saab 340 to inaugurate it. It is still run by the company that built it, Kerry Airport plc, incorporated in 1968 — a small, independent operator, not a branch of the state-owned daa group that runs Dublin and Cork. Security here has already moved past the standard 100ml liquids rule: Kerry’s own guidance says its EDS CB scanners let liquids, aerosols and gels stay in your cabin bag in containers up to 2 litres. And getting to the terminal by rail means a short hop to Farranfore station, just 1.4 km away by the airport’s own measure.
