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

it's also not available until the summer. Such a pain to get to zurich at the moment, I've to go via LHR or schipol every time. Dublin swiss air flights are a pain in the backside from cork due to the time of day... was in a delightful 4 hour traffic jam on a friday evening from dublin to cork the last time I came home to cork.

I wish Cork airport would focus on some better european connectivity for basic business travel. Ryanair is all well and good for leisure, but frequent business passengers come from corporate travel, and no corporate policy I've seen uses ryanair. No brussels flight. Is Rome gone too? No non-ryanair flight to italy at all. Nothing to russia. The only german airport served is frankfurt. No flight to berlin, hamburg, dussledorf, munich.

Hahn was a specific oddity that seemed to serve a few companies and some Germans living in the general area, IIRC. But yes - it would be nice to get something more.

I flew to Birmingham Saturday at 9am - no food options apart from the coffee dock area and that was mobbed. Its absolutely ridiculous that the two pubs/restaurants are still closed. And the Lounge is still closed too.

Flying into Cork this morning at about 9am, even the WH Smith in the landside area was closed.

The pub was open when I flew two weeks ago but I went out in the afternoon. The lounge opened yesterday.

The CSO used to have brilliant stats for each route from each airport but they have either stopped tracking or changed where they store them because I can't find them anymore.

Yeah, cross wind. Probably more to come over the next few days.

Good to see this mornings announcement. Some interesting routes for the summer. Nice options rather than travelling to dublin. Are iberia coming back with the madrid route for the summer?

This is the announcement.

wasn't that long ago that MOL stated that they had no plans for Cork because of the DAA charges and was belittling them!.... WELL WELL!!

AirFrane going to six times per week from the end of the month. Is this up from their pre-COVID schedule?

https://twitter.com/CorkAirport/status/1499358044358160391?s=20&t=LjEGhiJHS6Vm1KXufiikwg

They had 2 flights per day on sale a few months back but cut it back to 6 a week.

A few of the places tried reopening but the old staff had moved on and they couldn't get new staff in, on the wages being offered.

Some supermarkets are offering €12.50- €13+ph and some have time and a half on Sundays. The food places in the airport, as well as some of the other companies cant/won't match that. Add in that public transport for a 4/5am start or an 11/12pm finish are non existent except for a taxi and you end up with a severe lack of staff and reduced opening hours.

Any idea of 2021 PAX?

Is the bar back open up there

Craft Lane: Monday to Friday 8am - 430pm. Are they even trying?

The cheese toastie on board the Aer Lingus flights outbound is decent enough. I know not much of a consolation. But it definitely beats that KLM sambo when there is nothing at all at the airport itself.

WH Smith meal deal is a good back up. Brutal that they haven't opened the foodrepublic outlet yet.. 27+ flights most days

Looking to book something around New Years but it's very difficult to get information as the flight schedule hasn't been released. Does anyone know when this will become available or if there is any other way to book a flight? It's only 7 months away which I wouldn't think was so long so as not to have many flight options.

The food court was definitely open when I flew out on Sunday morning. Looks like they're only doing breakfast service though, not a full day service.

To add a little perspective though, I transferred through Amsterdam to Munich on Sunday, and the picture was very similar in Amsterdam airport. Quite a few eateries and bars there were either closed outright or operating with reduced opening hours, including in the food courts! Even the ones that operated at their regular opening hours often had significantly fewer staff available, often not more than 2-3 people, meaning that there were queues throughout the terminal. And yes, that includes places such as Starbucks or McDonalds who would normally have 7-10 people per shift.

Now, I admit that I don't know how much of that is due to any remaining pandemic restrictions in the Netherlands. but it seems to me as if there's a general struggle to find staff for these places, so I think we can cut Cork airport some slack here.

Thats a good one. Can link to Munich easily or just get the train.

I think it's Cork that's the summer destination here. Ireland is very popular with German tourists, and with Ryanair's commitment to Frankfurt Hahn becoming increasingly shaky, it looks like Lufthansa saw an opening in the market. They have the big advantage of offering transfers through their hub in Frankfurt, so I guess the economics work out for them.