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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Air France Cdg flights cancelled today too...

.red.

Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote: »

Air France Cdg flights cancelled today too...

Their down an aircraft(HOP are anyway), there's routes cancelled every day. That's the second day cork has been affected.
As far as I know all passengers were given the option of being re routed to their final destination. Probably thru LHR or AMS, maybe even CDG with Aer Lingus.

revelman

.red. wrote: »

Their down an aircraft(HOP are anyway), there's routes cancelled every day. That's the second day cork has been affected.
As far as I know all passengers were given the option of being re routed to their final destination. Probably thru LHR or AMS, maybe even CDG with Aer Lingus.

Lots of people being rerouted through Amsterdam.

Mardyke

The fact that Bergamo prices are in there for July and August, does that mean there will be no June or other months in 2019?

snotboogie

.red. wrote: »

Their down an aircraft(HOP are anyway), there's routes cancelled every day. That's the second day cork has been affected.
As far as I know all passengers were given the option of being re routed to their final destination. Probably thru LHR or AMS, maybe even CDG with Aer Lingus.

Still not a great sign... Was all positive up to a few days ago.

.red.

snotboogie wrote: »

Still not a great sign... Was all positive up to a few days ago.

The flights vary from almost full to being overbooked so I wouldn't worry about it. It's probably more a scheduling issue or with the flights with the same plane before or after cork.
There's a good chance it's happening every day to other routes.

ongarboy

https://www.anna.aero/2018/09/12/cork-brussels-is-skyscanner-unserved-route-of-the-week-with-20000-searches-brussels-airlines-only-irish-service-to-be-sure/

Not sure if this was already posted but an interesting article about an untapped route to Brussels from Cork

Ardennes1944

I can book flights from Zurich to Cork for next May so im guessing the route is back for a third year, great help to me flying home.

SleetAndSnow

Cork to barcalona isn’t out yet, Alicante is available. Strange given that all the other Irish airports have their barcalona flights bookable for next summer!

Oh well! Hopefully it’s not gone but all the new announcements are great! Wonder if we will see any more from Aer Lingus. I can see where cork airport we’re getting the massive seat boost from now

snotboogie

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Cork to barcalona isn’t out yet, Alicante is available. Strange given that all the other Irish airports have their barcalona flights bookable for next summer!

Oh well! Hopefully it’s not gone but all the new announcements are great! Wonder if we will see any more from Aer Lingus. I can see where cork airport we’re getting the massive seat boost from now

According to PPrune "Barcelona BCN Increase from 4 to 5 per week over longer period"

SleetAndSnow

snotboogie wrote: »

According to PPrune "Barcelona BCN Increase from 4 to 5 per week over longer period"

Oh that’s good then! Would you be able to link that to me so I can get my friends to stop messaging me constantly?

snotboogie

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

Oh that’s good then! Would you be able to link that to me so I can get my friends to stop messaging me constantly?

https://www.pprune.org/airlines-airports-routes/599828-cork-6-a-7.html

revelman

You can definitely book Cork to Barcelona on Aer Lingus for 2019. I thought you were referring to Ryanair - Girona and Reus not yet bookable.

SleetAndSnow

Ah yeah that is Aer Lingus. was referring to Barcalona Reus with Ryanair. It’s about 222 from knock but that’s 3 hours away, SNN over 300 return so will be interesting to see what they charge in Cork. Last airport to have the routes announced!

Shn99

Swiss ORK-ZRH up to 4x/wk next summer and returns at the earlier date of 31st of March 2019(Monday,Wednesday,Friday,Sunday). All flights operated by A220-300

marno21

Shn99 wrote: »

Swiss ORK-ZRH up to 4x/wk next summer and returns at the earlier date of 31st of March 2019(Monday,Wednesday,Friday,Sunday). All flights operated by A220-300

Fantastic news. That route is doing very well - nice to see an airline like Swiss try out Cork and get rewarded.

Masala

Well done to Cork Airport on recent routes... ticking nicely along with a range on new routes. Their marketing team should get recognition on this and well done to Neil the boss for steering the ship.

Didn't poach any routes from the West coast airports and what's good for Cork is good for the Southwest in general

lisasimpson

Masala wrote: »

Well done to Cork Airport on recent routes... ticking nicely along with a range on new routes. Their marketing team should get recognition on this and well done to Neil the boss for steering the ship.

Didn't poach any routes from the West coast airports and what's good for Cork is good for the Southwest in general

+1 to this Zurich is a great success Madrid too. Can see Malta as a successful summer route. Well done all keep up the good work..its very easy to complain but success like this should be completmented more

Mardyke

Cork seems to be gone from the Volotea website. It'd be a pity if the Cork - Verona route was dropped.

Cork to Italy is very badly served, and surely there is huge demand.

Shn99

Mardyke wrote: »

Cork seems to be gone from the Volotea website. It'd be a pity if the Cork - Verona route was dropped.

Cork to Italy is very badly served, and surely there is huge demand.

Route finished up for the season yesterday. 2019 schedules probably haven’t been loaded yet so that’s probably why it’s disappeared

Mardyke

Shn99 wrote: »

Route finished up for the season yesterday. 2019 schedules probably haven’t been loaded yet so that’s probably why it’s disappeared

Fingers crossed.

Just that when you look at the Route Map on the Volotea website there is no mention of Cork at all.

Shn99

Mardyke wrote: »

Fingers crossed.

Just that when you look at the Route Map on the Volotea website there is no mention of Cork at all.

It’s the same with Helvetic when they end for the winter up in the airport I shall not name. Reappears when the summer schedules are loaded. Wouldn’t worry too much.

snotboogie

Foreign Airport    2017M06    2018M06 Diff Per
London - Heathrow 36,420 36,492 72 0.20%
London - Stansted 30,887 30,793 -94 -0.30%
Malaga 17,288 20,092 2804 16.22%
Faro 19,227 19,599 372 1.93%
Amsterdam 14,705 13,189 -1516 -10.31%
Lanzarote 11,293 12,030 737 6.53%
Paris - CDG 8,012 11,983 3971 49.56%
Palma 10,683 11,621 938 8.78%
London - Gatwick 10,568 10,743 175 1.66%
Manchester 9,167 8,805 -362 -3.95%
Alicante 6,379 7,564 1185 18.58%
Birmingham - 6,696 6,578 -118 -1.76%
Reus 5,482 5,511 29 0.53%
Liverpool 5,212 5,429 217 4.16%
Barcelona 5,615 5,019 -596 -10.61%
Edinburgh 4,227 4,396 169 4.00%
Providence 0 3,476 3476
Wroclaw 2,934 3,299 365 12.44%
Bristol 3,572 3,237 -335 -9.38%
Madrid 2,338 3,213 875 37.43%
Tenerife Sur 2,988 3,164 176 5.89%
Lourdes - Tarbes 3,226 3,126 -100 -3.10%
Bordeaux 2,498 2,865 367 14.69%
Las Palmas 1,678 2,836 1158 69.01%
Carcassonne 2,465 2,804 339 13.75%
Gdansk 2,818 2,804 -14 -0.50%
Bergamo 3,139 2,755 -384 -12.23%
Zurich 1,690 2,687 997 58.99%
Gerona 2,478 2,535 57 2.30%
Southampton 2,594 2,380 -214 -8.25%
Glasgow 2,251 2,209 -42 -1.87%
Dusseldorf 1,819 1,540 -279 -15.34%
Verona 817 1,417 600 73.44%
Cardiff 1,286 1,137 -149 -11.59%
Newcastle 949 958 9 0.95%
St. Mawgan (NQY) 673 697 24 3.57%
Rennes 462 548 86 18.61%
Farnborough 271 226 -45 -16.61%
Gander (YQX),Canada 7 152 145 2071.43%
244,814 259,909 15,095 5.81%

GavRedKing

Mod : Just done a quick tidy up of that table

Flesh Gorden

Great to see flights to Gander, Newfoundland enjoy 2000% year on year growth

It's interesting to see the swing in numbers between Amsterdam and Paris since the AF route was launched.

Price wise the options available from AF when connecting from CDG are very tempting, or at the very least presented well enough to make them look like good value.

Plus, if you don't mind spending a night near Gare du Nord and hoping on an early RER, there's some great value to be had if flying out of Orly on the South side of the city.

roundymac

Mardyke wrote: »

Fingers crossed.

Just that when you look at the Route Map on the Volotea website there is no mention of Cork at all.

Its on the Topflight web site for 2019, I was just looking at it to day.

revelman

Thanks for posting the data. A few things stick out for me:

1. The Amsterdam route is clearly taking a hit from AF pax connecting via CDG. This corresponds with recent flights I've taken to Amsterdam - less busy than usual.

2. Many of the English provincial cities served by Aer Lingus Regional have taken a hit by up to 10% drop in passenger numbers. Yet the one city that is cut is the one that had a slight growth - Newcastle? It only had two flights a week but it seems like an odd decision on Aer Lingus part.

3. Bordeaux and Carcassone look very healthy for a return next year.

snotboogie

revelman wrote: »

Thanks for posting the data. A few things stick out for me:

1. The Amsterdam route is clearly taking a hit from AF pax connecting via CDG. This corresponds with recent flights I've taken to Amsterdam - less busy than usual.

2. Many of the English provincial cities served by Aer Lingus Regional have taken a hit by up to 10% drop in passenger numbers. Yet the one city that is cut is the one that had a slight growth - Newcastle? It only had two flights a week but it seems like an odd decision on Aer Lingus part.

3. Bordeaux and Carcassone look very healthy for a return next year.

1. The Amsterdam route has been dropping in the year on year monthly comparisons since Aerlingus decreased frequency, long before AirFrance came in. Amsterdam seemed busy every time I’ve got it this year, the reduced frequency has been a big hit. To me it seems like Heathrow has been the most affected, growth abruptly stopped the moment AirFrance came in after three or so years of consistent increases.

2. For those more marginal UK routes I’d be looking at the overall numbers rather than the persentage change, at least on the month over month numbers.

Flesh Gorden

revelman wrote: »

3. Bordeaux and Carcassone look very healthy for a return next year.

I've never been to Carcassonne, but have been to and from Bordeaux a few times and I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't return, especially as Ryanair are expanding their operations from there:

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-to-open-2-new-french-bases-at-bordeaux-marseille/

There's no mention of the Cork route, but they are launching a new Dublin flight running on Thursday and Sunday, whereas Cork has been Monday and Friday.


Ryanair flights leave from a separate no frills terminal dedicated to low cost carriers called Billi and when I say no frills, I mean absolutely no frills.

If it wasn't scheduled for demolition, it would be interesting if Cork had the foresight to turn the disused old terminal into something similar.

beer enigma

Masala wrote: »

Well done to Cork Airport on recent routes... ticking nicely along with a range on new routes. Their marketing team should get recognition on this and well done to Neil the boss for steering the ship.

Didn't poach any routes from the West coast airports and what's good for Cork is good for the Southwest in general

Imagine where they would be if they weren't saddled with the terminal debt :rolleyes: