Getting to Lisbon

donalh087

I am going to Lisbon from Cork in early November and it is proving quite difficult to fly into.

Aer Lingus stop their flights to Portugal in October.
Ryanair dont appear to fly there.
There are flights from Dublin but as there are no Cork/Dublin flights this adds 3 to 4 hours on either end of the journey. Not fun.
Easyjet doesn't fly out of Stanstead and the Gatwick flights require an overnight in Gatwick.

Anybody regularly travel to Lisbon from Cork? Am I missing an obvious option?

schemingbohemia

Fly from Dublin?

donalh087

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Fly from Dublin?

At the risk of repeating myself - "There are flights from Dublin but as there are no Cork/Dublin flights this adds 3 to 4 hours on either end of the journey. Not fun."

coylemj

Expedia is showing flights via Amsterdam or LHR. The Aer Lingus flights to Amsterdam are codeshared with KLM so go to the KLM website, put in your travel dates and see what they offer, you'll be able to book the whole trip with them and you'll have some protection if your flights get delayed plus you'll be able to check in your bags in Dublin and they'll send them straight through.

http://www.klm.com/

donalh087

coylemj wrote: »

you'll be able to check in your bags in Dublin and they'll send them straight through.

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Again............"There are flights from Dublin but as there are no Cork/Dublin flights this adds 3 to 4 hours on either end of the journey. Not fun."

Strumms

check with skyscanner. They will give you connecting flight options.

coylemj

donalh087 wrote: »

Again............"There are flights from Dublin but as there are no Cork/Dublin flights this adds 3 to 4 hours on either end of the journey. Not fun."

Sorry, that was a mistype. The flights options via Amsterdam are from Cork and do not involve Dublin. ORK-AMS-LIS.

schemingbohemia

Whilst it might not be fun, it's a hell of a lot better than risking a missed connection somewhere else.

donalh087

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Whilst it might not be fun, it's a hell of a lot better than risking a missed connection somewhere else.

I am well aware of it's availability and it's benefits, I am simply asking if there is an alternative. If you don't know of any, that's ok.

MRG77

There are no real alternatives that I am aware of. You´d probably be better off just going up the road to Dublin and going direct from there. Flying from Cork to somewhere else to Lisbon is probably going to be just as long a journey (if not longer) time wise as going Cork to Dublin by road and then flying direct from there. I´d say it would probably be cheaper to go direct from Dublin also.

schemingbohemia

No there are no bunny-hop flights available that will not involve a very risky connection whereby you will have less than the time it takes you to get from Cork to Dublin.

Even the check-in times/security checks for two flights would more than likely take up the journey time to Dublin Airport from Cork.

coylemj

schemingbohemia wrote: »

No there are no bunny-hop flights available that will not involve a very risky connection whereby you will have less than the time it takes you to get from Cork to Dublin.

Even the check-in times/security checks for two flights would more than likely take up the journey time to Dublin Airport from Cork.

+1 The Amsterdam option would involved flying out of Cork at 06:00, you'd have 3.5 hours on the ground in Schipol and you'd arrive in Lisbon at 14:30.

Flying via Dublin (based on the current summer timetable), you'd depart at 11:45 and arrive in Lisbon at 14:30.

That's one less flight, one less airport, less risk of your bags getting lost, no missed connections, you'd get there at the same time and it would cost less.

Edit: And you wouldn't arrive in a zombie-like state having been up since before 4 a.m.

donalh087

Yeah, it really is looking like Dublin. I don't mind the drive up to be honest - just hate getting home after two weeks and then having to drive for 4 hours.

ballooba

Aircoach FTW.

abff

ballooba wrote: »

Aircoach FTW.

http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.cork.php