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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.

Does anyone know how the routes are decided on?

Is it at the discretion of airlines, whatever they think will be profitable?

Does the airport actively lobby for routes, or the city council lobby for routes, or Chamber of commerce? How does it work? Is there a review process or some data they review?

Sick to death of being delayed with Ryanair. Not the same airline they were before covid. We need new airlines in Cork.

Where did you hear that?

They have lots of 737 Max which are at least in theory in range. It’s about 1,000 km further than providence but it’s over land not an ocean which would help.

From my understanding, Norwegian mainly had the issues with the regular 737-800, which they used in the beginning because of delivery problems for the Max8. The Max8 that took me to Providence and back all the way back in 2018 certainly didn’t have any blocked-off rows, just three seats at the front and back reserved for crew rest.

Doha would be a tight squeeze with regards to distance though. From what I can see, the great circle route would work out well enough at 5800 kilometres, which is well within the Max8’s maximum range of 6690 kilometres. Real life flight plans could really bite into that though, especially when it comes to avoiding the likes of Syria or Iraq.

Qatar were one of the airlines refused slots for Dublin this winter. If they wanted to add capacity to Ireland but felt the wide bodies couldn’t get enough pax at Shannon a 737 max to Cork may make sense. Would be interesting if the OP here added any more context.

The reddit leaker said Glasgow for the winter season was a done deal.

Apparently Ryanair might be announcing a new route next week

I did a trip to Belgium via Charleroi - Friday early out/Sunday mid-afternoon back. Didn't travel to Bruges on that occasion but stayed in Mons. Easy to get to the station in Charleroi using the local bus but there are regular Flibco buses to Brussels.

Amsterdam might suit better with its early in , late out, flights but it is a longer trek to Bruges from there and probably a bit pricier.

Thank you. It would be for a nice romantic city break away, so I suppose Amsterdam would make everything a bit easier to organsie even if it does take a bit longer. Charleroi just isn't really working with flight times. The Sunday flight back would be at 6.50 in the morning and I have no idea how anyone is supposed to get to the airport on time. Saturday evening would be wiped out by that flight time too.

AMS to Bruges via train is expensive. It is very easy and stress free though. Change in Antwerp or Brussels so you can do a short visit at those cities too. Or Rotterdam. Charleroi airport and bus is certainly cheaper but slightly less romantic let's say.