Cork Airport - *Read Mod Note in First Post Before Posting*

TheBetsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122118266#Comment_122118266

No new scanners unfortunately and probably none until atleast 2025

Pip510

thank you for replying Thebetsy very much appreciated.

Chris_5339762

Its in progress but a long way to go. AFAIK quite a few infrastructural works required as the new scanners are bigger and heavier.

lisasimpson

Cork Rome for winter

https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1789333648166039852

whispering1

Lots of flights up there for Winter. No Sign of Palma though. Went there last year in January. Flight was full but lots paid very little.

yerwanthere123

Beginning the process of planning my trip to Paris for the Olympics. I'll be flying from Cork to Paris on Saturday August 3rd and trying to pick the best option.

One option is to fly with klm and connect in Amsterdam, but the connection time is just 40 minutes. Has anyone here ever done that before, and is it feasible? This would be the best one for me in terms of price, centrality and time of day but I'm unsure. There is a direct flight later in the day, but gets into Paris much later. There's a flight to Beauvais too, but obviously very far from Paris.

CR 7

I'm looking at something similar for the following weekend, and it looks like flying to either Amsterdam or London and then train to Paris from either is around 2 hours, so would probably be faster overall than any connection.

PreCocious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122146533#Comment_122146533

If everything is on time 40mins is perfectly doable. We've got off the Cork flight and arrived at a gate for Berlin in 15mins. Remember as well that you'll have a through ticket so they'll have to get you there.

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122146533#Comment_122146533

It’s a bit tight, but as PreCocious mentions, it’s doable, providing your inbound flight to Amsterdam gets out on time. Just keep in mind that you’ll be going through a passport check at Amsterdam. Those checkpoints can get crowded, but they usually have a few priority lanes open for people with tight connections.

Chris_5339762

40 minutes is tight but fine - I've done it a few times and its a bit hair raising but you can do it. Your luggage likely won't though, so hand luggage only perhaps.

If you don't make it, they'll put you on the next flight (and there are loads from Amsterdam to Paris). KLM are very good with that sort of thing.

revelman

Rumours that Emerald Air are to start Glasgow from next Winter.

TheBetsy

Would be great to see them open a base here. I think there could be scope for them to operate a daily Birmingham, Ryanair times and frequencies are awful especially for business travel. Ontop of those two and Bristol, maybe Southampton, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, possibly Rennes and Newquay in the summer and maybe even Dublin to feed the T/A network. All the above operated by Stobart and some stage in the past

lisasimpson

Well overdue Glasgow returning if it comes off. Would do with either bristol/Cardiff too

Chris_5339762

Emerald do Bristol already, one flight most evenings.

Jersey was nice when they had it - albeit very niche. They were thinking about Dublin to feed the TA network just before Covid and that would be a great one to have. People would pay a premium to preclear in Dublin but have a short flight up from Cork beforehand.

revelman

I understand it will be run like the Bristol flight so no base here unfortunately

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122209194#Comment_122209194

snotboogie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122209492#Comment_122209492

The source of the rumours said they were looking at a base in Cork for Summer 25 with Dublin, Southampton and London City added. There is some absolutely mad stuff said in the thread though, search Cork Reddit to find it. Highlights for me aside from the Emerald rumours:

1. Aerlingus to base 5 planes in Cork next summer up from 3.
2. Ryanair to base 5 planes in Cork next summer up from 4.
3. Turkish Airlines pulled out of advanced talks to start a 3 times weekly flight to Istanbul.
4. The airport are in talks with Qatar to fly a 737 Max to Cork
5. The Delta deal that fell through was enormous and merited pre clearance to be set up. Seems like Covid happened at the worst possible time for the airport.
6. Aerlingus want to fly A321LR’s to the East Coast but it could be up to 5 years away.
   

fjr13

Ryanair have 4 aircraft Cork based this summer

lisasimpson

Some mad rumours alright. Would be great an extra aircraft or 2 based in cork although needs to be wary on its reliance on Ryanair.The one thing about Cork Airport,I hope they continue to be successful in attracting new routes and continue to grow passenger numbers. After over a decade living in Cork I now live closer to Shannon. The Cork marketing etc is head and shoulders above it. I prefer to use either over Dublin. Definitely easier to navigate with young kids too

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211621#Comment_122211621

Honestly, Turkish Airlines bowing out is far worse in my eyes than the loss of the Delta deal, as Istanbul would have offered up a whole new series of connections. Qatar would be a pretty good alternative though, if that ever happens.

kub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211621#Comment_122211621

The only logic that I can think of with regard to those rumours is Cork benefitting from the passenger cap at Dublin.

snotboogie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212373#Comment_122212373

That’s exactly what she said ya. I guess we’ll find out soon enough with the Glasgow route starting or not.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212334#Comment_122212334

The Delta deal was supposedly for 5 routes.

revelman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122211621#Comment_122211621

that’s not the source of what I heard about Glasgow specifically. Some mad stuff on that thread alright!

Captain_Crash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212427#Comment_122212427

I dont know where that Delta rumor with 5 routes came from but there is not a hope of DL having 5 routes from Cork and never was. They don’t even have that in Frankfurt! They also don’t have the aircraft to do it from Corks runway anymore now that the 757 has been retired from Atlantic ops!

kub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213432#Comment_122213432

The 737 Max can do it, as can the 737 800, as both were utilised by Norwegian when they operated to Providence.

Also surely the A321 Neo can also do it.

corks finest

Handy

LimaRomeo990

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213448#Comment_122213448

the 321 Neo are limited on Corks runway. They struggle off Dublin southern runway which is longer than Corks.

ACitizenErased

flew in on air france today, plane was packed, full of american and french tourists. Seems to be a very successful venture

Captain_Crash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213448#Comment_122213448

They only have the standard 321NEO in the fleet with no LR’s on order, Maxes are on the way yes but won’t be used for atlantic routes and the 738 can make it but is extremely limited, and also not used on domestic routes only!

kub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122213527#Comment_122213527

Technically speaking, if the plane has less weight can it successfully operate from a shorter runway ?

Wind/ pressure etc included ?

LimaRomeo990

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122214321#Comment_122214321

Technically speaking the current 321 lr are limited from Dublin even with winds etc off the southern runway. They were capped before. They also have a issue with one of the runway in Washington. So likely they will struggle from Cork.

Also sean doyle mentioned the infrastructure at Cork pre covid as well.