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Frequency to the US out of Shannon is awful and getting worse. There are also very few options like the aircoach to Shannon. Even with the M20; the lack of frequency, lack of options with bus and distance will mean that Dublin and London will still be the two big routes to the US from Cork.

A lot of US multinationals in Cork have cut business travel to zero and plan to keep it extremely low in the medium term. That kills a lot of the potential viability on routes to the US. On top of that Aerlingus are pivoting to large regional UK cities, they were the great hope for Cork transatlantic. Depite the airport talking about transatlantic for decades they have never even hinted at looking for funding to extend the runway to really make it viable.

I honestly think the ship has sailed, at least in the medium term. We may get a Norwegian like carrier back but they won't last.

I have read both on ppruune and skyscraper city that an A220 may be a game changer for Cork. Looking at the Oddessy plans for long haul out of London City with the A220 (which has a runway 500m shorter than Cork), they may be right. Air Canada, Breeze (who fall into the Norwegian category), Jetblue and Delta stand out from the A200 orders list but I don't see a demand unless pre covid business travel is reached again, which may never happen.

Not sure if this is news but Aer Lingus will be flying to both Glasglow (four times a week) and Edinburgh (daily) from March 27th 2022. Munich returning for once a week (Saturday morning) on January 1st but only bookable at the moment until March 26th

Most likely. It's a route that I think would do decent for longer as there are easy transport links there to the Austrian cities and even Prague if you're doing a multi city trip.

I saw this message too in the booking system but all of these routes will not be available. All of the routes you mention have been in the booking system for years now. Places like Düsseldorf and Newcastle were abandoned by Aer Lingus long before the pandemic yet remained on the booking system.

in any case, the Aer Lingus Press release today stated that there were going to be seven routes from Cork in summer 2022: https://mediacentre.aerlingus.com/pressrelease/details/108/13493

They will be announced in the next few weeks. If I had to guess, I’d say Malaga, Faro, Lanzarote will be there for sure. Not sure about the remaining four. I wouldn’t be surprised if EI abandoned Amsterdam now that KLM are up to twice a day. Paris won’t be coming back either. There is talk that there will only be two EI planes based at Cork.

Ryanair picking up what Aer Lingus didn't bother continuing with. Fair play to them. Aer Lingus have effectively forgotten about Cork. A number of sun routes doesn't cut it. No France? Disappointing.

The Manchester flight isn't disappointing. I think that was Aer Lingus Regional's busiest flight and went 3 times a day. That had to be back as there's huge demand.

And in fairness to Ryanair, they have started several brand new routes out of Cork in recent years. Aer Lingus have done sweet **** all. The same bog standard Spanish routes every summer.

Cork needs a few more off peak city break routes like Berlin, Rome, Prague, Copenhagen.

I was booked on the first Aer Lingus Amsterdam flight on the 22nd of November, it was cancelled yesterday.

Any idea if it's due to the runway or just a normal cancellation? I was able to get the KLM option the next day as they only gave me a ticket out of Dublin for the Monday morning.

Lufthansa definitely won't add Berlin. They only fly to their hubs Frankfurt and Munich from there.

The European city destinations that are not hubs seem to be tough going out of Cork. Budapest, Lisbon and the one Paris route that didn't have connections are all gone post covid. Cork is currently UK, bucket and spade and European hubs.

SWISS Airlines flying from Cork to Geneva from December to March

With Ryanair covering Manchester and kind of covering Birmingham it seems there may actually be more capacity to the UK next year than in 2019? Downside is obviously reliance on Ryanair. Interesting EI are fighting Ryanair on the Scottish routes but not at all on the Northern English ones.

One more airline to be announced for next year still. I assume its the Turkey route mentioned earlier.