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Flesh Gorden wrote: »

This is interesting:

From March 31st 2019, the carrier is changing from AF to City Jet and the time changes to 11:40 from 16:45



Similar sized aircraft to the 190 AF have recently upgraded the ORK-CDG route


The Aer Lingus flight is at 12:40, which is the one I'd take as it only costs about €40, if booked far enough in advance.
I've only used the AF CDG flight the one time that I had to.

If the AF/City Jet flight was a 6-7am flight I wouldn't mind paying that bit extra, but I suppose their primary market are the connecting flights out of CDG.

I suspect it will be a similar arrangement to the one with Aer Lingus from Dub to LCY. Travelled on it yesterday and the aircraft are branded EI but the crew announce it over the tannoy as an Aer Lingus flight operated by cityjet aircraft and crew. It was an odd announcement, but must be part of the deal between them. As far as I know, Cityjet operates wet-lease services on behalf of Aer Lingus, Air France etc

snotboogie wrote: »

Cork-Heathrow??

Yes, apologies shouldve been more clearer.

roundymac wrote: »

A lot of competition on the London routes, 4 in total once Luton starts up.

Luton is running about a month now. The loads are up and down with it.

Trying to book Lisbon for next summer and there are no dates available at all :?

The extra LHR flights never did well from Cork, been moved to Belfast for the 3 months they operated.

snotboogie wrote: »

Poor timing with AF adding significant competition on the transfer routes

Cork Airport expects 149,000 festive passengers

The airport are saying 2.4 million+ pax for 2018, about 4-5% growth and 2.6 million for next year, a further 7% growth. You'd have to think the 2018 numbers are right but those are big predictions for 2019, especially after losing the Heathrow pax, I'm not sure that they currently have the capacity to make that up.

unless more flights are incoming that we don't yet know about possibly, doubtful but we were wondering this when they announced the amount of seats the hope to fill during the summer too.

Booked Dubrovnik from Cork last week of May with aer Lingus.
€300 return for two. Very happy with that!

Tomtom364 wrote: »

Booked Dubrovnik from Cork last week of May with aer Lingus.
€300 return for two. Very happy with that!

Same here! Got it few weeks ago at 260. Delighted as normally have to fly to amsterdam or london.

Air France cut 2 flights per week between now and April, mainly Tuesday/Wednesdays with some Thursdays.

marno21 wrote: »

Any reason in particular or just low bookings? Seems odd to drop the extra flights at such short notice.

That was announced about 2 months ago.
Probably down to a lack of aircraft to run the route. The flight is almost full pretty much every day so it's not down to passenger numbers.

snotboogie wrote: »

If I was running Shenzhen airport that would make my blood boil, I'd say most of the Shanghai business is transferring there and most of the HK traffic terminates in SZ too.

Unless something has changed in the two years since I travelled to Shenzhen, it isn't served from any European hub. Besides, the car journey from HKG to central Shenzhen (whatever that means) was around 60 mins, so no real advantage flying to Shenzhen direct, apart perhaps from avoiding the hideous land border.

Is anyone here in know how, or have info on take off flight path for Cork - or even how it works.

I'm right in the city Centre and have noticed over the past few days flights are taking off and swinging right immediately over the city, rather than going outwards over say - HollyHill. The reason I've noticed is I've awoken from sleep due to the noise.

I have checked Flight radar and they are def swinging right more aggressively. Can the weather affect the sounds also?

Just very curious why I am noticing this the past few days.