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

So we can safely conclude that with the current Aer Lingus fleet, technically it is not possible for them to operate t/a from Cork.

That should therefore address that part of the rumour.

Rome is swapping from Fiumicino to Ciampino in October. It's a much smaller airport and a lot closer to the city

Route has chopped and changed between the two venice airports for the last few seasons. Wonder if its a Ryanair tactic for reducing landing fees as with each swap they are servicing a "new" airport (new routes have heavily discounted fees)

So do we think there will be any takers for the reduced fees announced?

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0708/1458808-cork-airport-economic-analysis/

And honestly, we have more than enough FR and EI at the airport already. What Cork needs is more airlines, especially year round, to weaken that duopoly and make Cork Airport more resilient for the next time O'Leary throws a tantrum!

Yep more KLM, Air France or Lufthansa would be nice. I appreciate they're simply feeding their hubs but hopefully they're enjoying general route success in Cork too.

Munich, Berlin with Lufthansa for instance, or some of Air France's many hubs would be nice.

Not sure how much more KLM could do but maybe using the same Schiphol aircraft they could do something.

With regards to Lufthansa, I'd settle for year round service and/or equipment upgrades on the Frankfurt route. The CRJ-900 might be economical, but boy is it cramped! The same goes for Paris, having a year-round CDG route would be a quick win.

Beyond that, I think TAP is a good call, as it would not only serve the "shovel & bucket" summer flights, but would also allow for easy onward transfers to Brazil. I'd also love for one or two Eastern European airlines, ideally the likes of LOT or Smartwings, to start serving Cork. Connections to Warsaw and Prague would be a real boost. And we nearly had flights to Prague back in the mid-2010s, with the moribund Czech Airlines, no less. They were cancelled mere weeks before they were to start, so someone's already crunched the numbers, and if CSA was willing to take the leap with their inflated cost base, a low-cost carrier like Smartwings should definitely be able to make it work.

We could be getting a lot more from Aerlingus imo. The likes of Bilbao, Lisbon and Prague would be very popular.

Ryanair used to fly to the old Berlin airport I'm sure. Great city

Iinteresting on the same day this appears on the independent .list of airlines impacted by cap already

https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/low-cost-airline-jet2-squeezed-out-of-dublin-airport-due-to-passenger-cap/a1246179366.html

Basically a who’s who of dream operators for Cork. Imagine if they had extended the runway during Covid, would be so well positioned now.

Only from Kerry AFAIK. As much as I'd love a direct flight to Berlin since I go there every few weeks mostly with KLM via Amsterdam, I think it's unlikely. Lufthansa only flies to their hubs FRA and MUC with their Eurowings doing all other short haul routes with not many flights out of Berlin. Don't understand though why Aer Lingus doesn't set up a flight once or twice a week.

Not too long ago KLM were doing 3x Amsterdam rotations, so lets have that back please, or use bigger aircraft. Every flight I've been on is stuffed. Though Schiphol have its own problems with a stupid government angrily trying to restrict its movements.

(While we're at it, maybe KLM 2x Shannon - Amsterdam too)

Air France should be year round - thats the easiest win of them all I think

Ryanair - more Gatwicks, one at varying times of the day is not enough.

Nah, I definitely remember there being three flights with KLM to AMS at one stage a few years ago. It went down to two and then to one for a while (which was a right PITA) but is now back up to two with the later flight into Cork pushed right back to one of the last departures out of Schiphol.

Its hard to compare the KLM and Aer Lingus offerings. Most KLM traffic is feeder traffic to their network, which is exactly what we need from Cork I think and I use them all the time for heading to European destinations. Aer Lingus is not transfer traffic, it is "visiting Amsterdam".

Deleting. Thought I was in the DUB thread.