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

snotboogie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987488#Comment_123987488

They are only rotating routes out of Cork though. Plenty of far more marginal city routes like Shannon Budapest and Shannon Porto stick around there for 5 years +. You would imagine Cork-Rome has far more pull than either of those routes.

lordleitrim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987488#Comment_123987488

I dont agree with that logic of a route being "done". Surely no route in any airport would have any longevity if that was the case? Hasn't Bristol, Paris, Edinburgh, Lanzarote and any number of other popular European destinations from Cork also been "done" yet they are still active routes decades later? Aren't there always a new crop of people, younger travellers, retirees or middle age travellers who hadn't the opportunity to travel previously, those that simply like travelling to a place repeatedly or those with family and business connections that sustain a route for the longer term? Your office colleagues example in isolation is too anecdotal.

I'm not sure what the logic behind Ryanair's pulling of Rome from Cork but the load factors must just not have been viable because there was not enough of an ongoing catchment area demand vs other more successful routes regardless of how "done" they were.

TheBetsy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123987558#Comment_123987558

Although I've no evidence to back this up (other than I guess the one Cork to Rome flight i was on that was packed to the gills), I'd be pretty certain that the ending of Ryanairs cork to Rome flight has nothing to do with load factors or viability.

Anyway, Aer Lingus ran Cork to Rome for many years before Ryanair. Considering how happy they were to jump onto Bordeaux after Ryanair also dropped that, I would hope we could see them on the route again next year