Cork Airport departure parking

masterboy123

Going to drop off my family at cork airport at 3 AM.

Is it possible to park right outside departure area for few minutes? To take off luggage and say bye bye.

Thanks

_Kaiser_

masterboy123 wrote: »

Going to drop off my family at cork airport at 3 AM.

Is it possible to park right outside departure area for few minutes? To take off luggage and say bye bye.

Thanks

Was up there recently at lunchtime and there was a line of cars parked in the departures area with no drivers and no apparent problems.

I'd imagine you'd be fine but it's at your own risk as always with these things.

masterboy123

Cool
I will be next to car anyways.

n97 mini

You could do that in Dublin all hours of the day (you could even have a snooze at T2 departures) so I'd imagine 3am in Cork wouldn't be a problem.

masterboy123

Thanks for the input guys

Losty Dublin

n97 mini wrote: »

You could do that in Dublin all hours of the day (you could even have a snooze at T2 departures) so I'd imagine 3am in Cork wouldn't be a problem.

Used to. As recently as 8 years ago I left my car for an hour one evening awaiting a pick up. These days your passengers are jumping out the windows to keep the airport police happy

n97 mini

Ah they're not as bad as they were a few years back. They're pretty relaxed now, especially if you are actually there letting someone out (instead of picking up).

LXFlyer

03:00 seems extraordinarily early to be dropping people off, given that the first flight is not until 05:55.

04:00 would be more than sufficient.

We are not talking about an airport with excessive volumes of people passing through it (to the extent that there will be massive queues).

masterboy123

yea thats the flight at 05:55. will be ariving there 3:30ish. gonna be tiring night today..

lxflyer wrote: »

03:00 seems extraordinarily early to be dropping people off, given that the first flight is not until 05:55.

04:00 would be more than sufficient.

We are not talking about an airport with excessive volumes of people passing through it (to the extent that there will be massive queues).

LXFlyer

masterboy123 wrote: »

yea thats the flight at 05:55. will be ariving there 3:30ish. gonna be tiring night today..

Seriously - you do not need to be there before 4am.

xabi

Security doesn't open until 04:30

cml387

xabi wrote: »

Security doesn't open until 04:30

And you'll find there's a big queue there already. In June we arrived at 4.30 and after bag drop were told to go straight up to security. The queueing area was full at that stage.

xabi

cml387 wrote: »

And you'll find there's a big queue there already. In June we arrived at 4.30 and after bag drop were told to go straight up to security. The queueing area was full at that stage.

True, crazy with charter flights this time of year, I arrived a few weeks ago at 05:45 for a 06:30 flight and the queue was massive, made it through in time though. Family in front of me catching a 09:00 flight, madness.

masterboy123

Thanks for the updates. I will tell my family.
We will be there by 3.45

cml387 wrote: »

And you'll find there's a big queue there already. In June we arrived at 4.30 and after bag drop were told to go straight up to security. The queueing area was full at that stage.

xabi

masterboy123 wrote: »

Thanks for the updates. I will tell my family.
We will be there by 3.45

That's still early in my opinion, but less rushed I suppose, enjoy.

masterboy123

thanks for input everyone.

we arrived at 3:45 AM. about 10 people were inside the airport and check-in counter opened at 3:55, and car was parked right outside for 10 minutes without any trouble