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

Yes I think a coloured graphic showing the seasons would be helpful too.

As has been posted, much of the detail is available on the airport website, albeit not all in one nice graphic like this.

Cork-Munich is ski season, weekly. Salzburg is another ski flight albeit chartered, I think by Topflight. If you call them they can sometimes sell you seats outside of the holiday.

On a related note, Cork-Munich used to be very frequent many years ago, it's a shame to see it down to once a week.

In fairness, no one called your parents stupid or snobs. I have to set the record straight on that.

And lastly, if your parents were going to get on a plane in Dublin, then many of those mobility issues perhaps don't affect them.

Of course, there are edge cases with people with more limited mobility, where other forms of transport may suit, but you didn't categorise your parents as one of them.

Lastly, your parents are free to choose what means to get to Dublin airport as they wish, there are several options available to them.

All I am saying is that it's not nearly as difficult as it's made out to be. You say a 3+ hour bus journey isn't feasible. But a 45-minute bus journey to Dublin City, and then a 2.30-hour train journey is. Fine, but if one is going to rely on multiple modes of public transport to get from A to B, then perhaps 5-10 minutes checking out timetables and the like would be wise. They can assess the different options and choose one that suits them best. It is a free country after all.

Can't help but be disappointed that route map. Cork needs links to places like Berlin, Madrid, Lisbon, Munich on a year-round basis if they want it to grow any further. The lack of Berlin and Lisbon is particularly poor.

Also seems like Ryanair are cutting frequency of UK routes over the Summer. Trying to book a UK flight for August and there's less option then compared with now. Shocking flight times too, a lot of them arrive back or depart at crazy times. Not just the UK either, I see some of the Tenerife flights depart at 8:30pm, not arriving until almost 1am in Spain. Mad times

^^this is the big problem for regionals a lot of people don't know about such an options

What is this about?

https://twitter.com/CorkAirport/status/1761766500027838908

How frequent was it last year?

Apparently, there's also an upscale in equipment on the Friday & Saturday flights. They'll be operated by A32x aircraft rather than the regular E190s, and judging by the flight numbers, these larger aircraft will operate the Friday & Saturday flights for the entirety of the summer schedule. To be honest, I'd prefer if they went year-round, but it's still not bad.

Yes, very good. I would like it year round. Although that said, Air France / KLM and their partnership make this tempting, there is still the case that CDG can be far less user friendly than AMS.

Though CDGs lounges are much much better.

The 10:50am flight doesn't run on Saturdays: https://wwws.airfrance.ie/information/meilleures-offres/new-route

It's showing for the Friday and Monday. Only reason I can think of for not showing Sunday is that it's sold out.

Istanbul would be a great option once Turkish Airlines have direct flights to Australia.

Istanbul is a fabulous city to visit! I'd love to go back!

Are all the Gran Canary flights out of Cork at feckin 8pm?

And you land at midnight? Or 1am for the Tenerife flight. Probably don't get into bed until 2 or 3am.

What the feck? Do Cork people take those flights or do ye go from Dublin? Seems like a massive dose. Or am I over reacting?

Noone wants to fly from the regionals eh. Here's hoping the momentum continues. Must be an increase of 100k for 1st quarter of the year

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0404/1441634-dublin-and-cork-airport-passenger-numbers/

Agree would like to see it over dependant on ryanair. They ones you mentioned are good options. Would like to see maybe emerald running Glasgow too. As I said let the positive news for the airport continue

Was only saying at home that I'd love to go to Christmas markets in Germany but there's a serious lack of flights from Cork and absolutely despise going to Dublin airport.

The lack of German city options (especially in winter) is one of the main glaring gaps in the Cork schedule.

Can Aer Lingus come back and compete with Ryanair on the Alicante route…PLEASE!

The prices to Alicante this of year is insane.

Ryanair had Cork-Berlin for a while, before they moved them to Shannon, and then Kerry and then removed them completely. Each time they moved airport they had a big argument with the associated Irish airport about charges/costs. It's very disappointing but it looks like they perhaps just couldn't make it work out financially.

Munich is more disappointing to me: Cork-Munich used to be very frequent with Aer Lingus, perhaps even daily at one point. It's now down to weekly over three months of the year.

Lufthansa flights to Frankfurt are very expensive, I really hope they stick with it. Hard for me to justify the cost at the current prices.

Edit: I think there was another German flight, maybe Hamburg? No sign of it any more. Cork passengers are not connecting to Germany enough by the looks of it.

Ryanair could run them out without much issue.