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It could well be Dusseldorf: I had Dusseldorf in my mind at first but never took that flight. Edit: I think that was Aer Lingus / IAG regional

Kerry has Frankfurt twice a week. Can't understand how Cork couldn't pull similar numbers.

Flight prices have soared this year, Malaga in May this year are over double than what they were last year.

That's Frankfurt Hahn, not Frankfurt Main. And while the Hahn-Kerry Route is primarily aimed at German tourists heading to Ireland (that's how I fell in love with Ireland back in 2008), I wouldn't be surprised if there's a business angle. I was surprised at the amount of suits and ties I saw at Hahn when I flew to Kerry, a marked difference to the other flights leaving from Hahn at that time.

Also, while summer only, there is a connection between Cork and the REAL Frankfurt Airport. 3x weekly with Lufthansa, mostly using a CRJ-900, though I've seen them sub in the occasional A319. That's 270 seats per week from Cork in each direction, compared to 378 from Kerry. Not too shabby. The challenge is going to be to convince LH to go year round.

Once a week to any city isn't going to attract short breaks, especially somewhere like Germany.

Am getting seriously tired of Ryanair putting on services late at night. Up to last month, Manchester arrived mid day or thereabouts. I've a young one going to a concert there next month and flight is now 9pm. Meaning an extra night over there, or Dublin. Dublin it is unfortunately.

Never, ever, underestimate the power of Kerrygold and it's advertising of Kerry. The Germans love Kerrygold and flock to Kerry. It's funny really but it's true!

I recall years back we had a German exchange in school, loads of them came over and were fascinated that just on the other side of the Shannon River there was Kerry. First thing they all said was "THAT'S WHERE KERRYGOLD COMES FROM".

Irish traditional music and Irish whisky are both very, very big in Germany, too.

Looking to go to Liverpool June 12th to 14th (Wed-Fri). €30 from Dublin, €200 from Cork. Thankfully Manchester is only €90 so I'll just get the train

When I fly via Amsterdam, I'm usually at the airport at 4.15 to 4.30 AM, mainly because I'm paranoid about missing my flights. Even at this time, the counters are usually manned and operating, both for KLM and Aer Lingus. Can't say much about the Aspire Lounge at that time, as I've never used it that early. It does open at 5 AM though, so it should just be business as usual.

Frankfurt Hahn, I've done that flight twice. Its the equivalent of wanting to go to Cork and landing in dublin its so far from Frankfurt. 2.5 hours on a bus, nightmare

Aspire is alright…. food options acceptable but nothing out of the ordinary. I wouldn't pay to go into it, but you'll get a small fry, some yogurts and some cereal if you get in.

Flights with TUI to Corfu announced to start May 9th 2025. Booking open already

I don’t, the Echo article said that but they might be wrong

I'm only back from Berlin and would love to see more of Germany, that's a great suggestion. Flight from Kerry too

I think the last flight I took from the old terminal was direct to Berlin. Can't remember the airline.

Old terminal was closed in 2006 (?), didn't start Berlin in Shannon until 2014, so was quite a gap.

I would have been on one of the early flights from the new terminal I'd say, during that period when they were doing half-and-half between new and old. And then again from the new terminal fully after that.

More choice year round is what Cork needs too. Not just June July aug

Utterly random question - but does anyone know what eventually happened to all of the fish in the old terminal. If you remember there were multiple ponds in there with goldfish and koi. I can't see them just shooting them all, so presumably they went to anyone interested - nor can I see them still being there after all of these years.

The ponds had all been removed a few years before it closed, to make more space.

Your memory is a lot better than mine! I remember it was out of the old terminal and into the new alright.

I didn't remember it being Aer Lingus though. Back in those days there were regular (maybe daily) Aer Lingus flights to Munich too. Such a shame a lot of those flights are now gone. We're quite lucky in some respects that Aer Lingus withdrawing most operations to Dublin hasn't hit Cork harder.

Berlin must have been around until about 2009 so. It's gone about 15 years.

Along with Berlin, Cork had some good city destinations in the mid 00s that are now long gone. Munich(all year round), Prague and Bratislava/Vienna spring to mind. I don't think they ever even properly marketed the Vienna aspect of the Bratislava flight. The two closest capital cities in Europe. East meets west etc. I used it a couple of times and there mainly seemed to be just Slovak ex pats using it.

 Fuerteventura flights are on the app but not on the Website yet. Would say they are just working on it at the moment. When I checked a few weeks ago, they were midweek flights. Would say they have changed them .

Very annoying, have you lost out on any time as regards to flight times? I'm finding Cork very hit and miss with various times, random ones for the same destination, they vary from day to day. Flying into somewhere at 11pm can be difficult if your accommodation reps aren't available at that hour.

I note that Dublin airport are increasing their food options in both terminals and new scanning machines introduced .Meanwhile in Cork there was rumour last year that the expansion of the upper floor would start ...