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

It's 5am as far as I remember. The first flight is the amsterdam one at 6ish? It's one hour before that I think.

Thats massive news for Shannon if that comes to pass.

Vueling really messing people around now. Just had notification that my flight to Paris has been switched to Dublin in early June but the return flight is still in to Cork. Mess.

Why does Cork need transatlantic flights? The airport has a pretty good European route network going, enough to sustain a pretty impressive rebound after years of the plague, so I'd say the airport is in a pretty good position. Any transatlantic flight, even with an extended runway, would not amount to much more than one or two destinations, served may two to three times a week max, which isn't much in the grand scheme of movements at Cork airport. Now would it be nice? Of course, but it wouldn't be essential.

What's really needed is more airlines, particularly more airlines that serve Cork all year round. The ongoing Ryanair/Aer Lingus duopoly does present a significant risk to the airport, as the apparent neglect shown towards Cork in recent times clearly demonstrates. Getting Iberia back, getting Lufthansa to go year-round on the Frankfurt route and attracting the likes of LOT or ITA Airlines would all massively help Cork, much more than a transatlantic connection.

Its hard with Shannon up the road, and if the M20 ever gets built, it'll make even less sense.

Lets have Cork - Dublin flights Aer Lingus / Emerald flights linked in with Dublins transatlantic route network.

Agree 100% with this. Cork would need more than a longer runway. Other 2 have pre clearance etc. If anything its sometime for long term.

In the short to medium term there are better more realistic targets the airport should aim for. They have been successful in attracting airlines other than airlingus and ryanair. They need to build on this. Also focus on developing routes to more European hubs such as Madrid and Lisbon. We have a lot living here now from south america who would travel through these hubs not to mention all the Spanish and Portuguese living in munster region. Good weekend destinations too

Airport also needs more year round destinations. Some of the summer routs have short windows ie May/June to early sept. Try to get airlines to run more wks of the summer season. Iberbia Express to Madrid ran to a v short season and anytime i took the flight it was full. Hopefully the likes of a Glasgow service will be back soon. Focus on these things and you wouldnt be long bringing up passenger numbers to 2.5million from last years 2.24 million.In 2008 airport hit 3.25 millions passengers without transatlantic so proof it can grow without it.

Out of interest would anyone know what were the destinations for 2008 to get those numbers

Wasn't there a big shift to SNN by Ryanair about 2018-2109 regarding money and Cork lost some of the Budapest type routes. There was even talk of shutting the Cork base to cause a stir.

Remember back in 2000s and thoughts of airlines like KLM, Air France or Swiss coming to Cork were a Dreamland. But then again, AL cared about Cork back then.

I don't get the attitude that if Shannon and Dublin has transatlantic routes, then why should Cork need it? With no transatlantic flights, Cork still trashes Shannon's passenger numbers every year. That alone says a flight to New York or a summer flight to Florida would do well. It's not about deserving it. It's simply hard to imagine them not doing very well.

That airlines are now using smaller and more economic aircrafts for long haul routes hopefully means its just a matter of time before something happens. Apparently Delta were going to launch something, but the pandemic got in the way.

The Providence flight wasn't a good route to judge whether or not transatlantic flights would work out of Cork to be fair. Other than it being a destination most would have no interest in, the flight left Cork in the evening. So you're losing a day, compared to if you went out of Shannon with Aer Lingus in the morning. The time and destination was also useless for business passengers. However, I seem to remember that it was one of Norwegians most profitable routes that year.

All of that doesn't mean there shouldn't also be a push for more European destinations. They definitely need more city break destinations.

Peculiar one but the Sunday Edelweiss arrival from ZRH appears to be overnighting in Cork before returning to ZRH on Monday morning.

Malta and Budapest both never came back to Cork after Covid.

I used the Cork - New York (Via Reykjavík in Iceland) - it was great! Total travel time was roughly the same as you spent 2 hours in the airport rather than 4 hours to dublin and arriving early.

The catch was preclearence but it still meant I was using Cork.

I really would love that back as connecting in Reykjavík gives options onwards to 10 American cities & Canada

Plus its all booked through one Airline so connecting is more protected.

New York

Boston

Baltimore

Washington

Detroit

Chicago

Minneapolis

Denver

Portland

Seattle

Vancouver

toronto.

I reckon it would be worth trying to get PLAY the Icelandic airline to cork. It's a no brainer.

Ryanair appear to be releasing their W23/24 schedule at the moment from looking at the app. The following are either new for winter schedule or have a capacity increase at the moment

East Midlands, EDI, Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Malaga, Palma, Rome, Seville, Tenerife.

Hopefully some more new routes to be announced in due course

Do you mean today is Day 1? Or is it back year round?

Frankfurt / Kerry is year round. We have family an hour away from Frankfurt, so it being year round in Cork would be handy.