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

You didn't nearly crash land up there this afternoon. Stop being dramatic.

I've seen stobarts land almost sideways and that was in much, much worse conditions than what's about today.

There was so much turbulence the plane literally almost exploded.

Typical rubbish here about why the airport is located where it is.

There is a book written about the history of Cork Airport, I would suggest perhaps some posters here read it and educate themselves rather than posting silly comments.

That's just ridiculous! If turbulence had been that bad, they would have diverted to SNN or DUB. I've had some interesting landings at ORK in the 38 times I've flown here, most recently back in May of this year whilst coming back from a business trip, but I've had similar landings at FRA, AMS, ZRH whilst having significantly worse landings at Klagenfurt in Austria and LHR. The latter in particular seems to be a turbulence magnet. I've NEVER had a smooth approach or landing there.

Cork airport is equipped with a pretty decent ILS in the main landing direction, there are no mountains or obstructions in the vicinity of the glide paths for any of the four runways and it has a wide and reasonably long main runway with a crosswind runway that's still able to take ATRs or some of the smaller Embraers. I've landed on one of those, Runway 25, whilst coming back from Bristol a few years back. There's no reason to claim that pilots "hate" flying into Cork, especially without any evidence, and there's certainly no reason to make the airport out as unsafe.

I suggest you take a deep breath and get some perspective, as this type of hyperbole helps no one. The airport is where it is, it's not a bad location for it, and it certainly won't change. Don't like it? Tough!

There was an occasion when Aer Lingus transatlantic 707's had to land at Cork due to weather conditions at both Shannon and Dublin :

Is it the Amsterdam one? I've turned up less than an hour before with a bag to check in and was fine, this was after restrictions were lifted earlier this year. An hour and twenty and you should have plenty of time to spare.

Honestly, pay the extra € for carry on if you can. You will be waiting an hour at the Amsterdam Side to collect your bag. I take this flight often.

Wonder if we will hear something about the winter schedule next week?

Kinda weird suggesting it is financially motivated, it usually costs more to check it in.

Faith may be connecting to a long haul, schiphol is a hub.

I always travel with checked bags, I can’t bring what I usually need for work into the cabin. I take at least 6 flights a month. I had one baggage delay back in February and nothing since.

I meant if you can don't take checked luggage unless you have to. For example many people take the FREE checked in luggage option for Aer Lingus only too see they are waiting an age the other side at Amsterdam for their bag. I had to wait on numerous occasions by over an hour at the belt for the checked bag so I just pay the €8 to get me out. You're right though, I would have thought it costs more to pay baggage handlers to bring the bag that way

If you need checked in bags obviously this doesn't apply.

I flew KLM to Amsterdam from Cork a few weeks ago. There was almost no difference in price (or departure/arrival times) from the Aer Lingus offering. However, on the back of my experience, I would advise anyone flying to Amsterdam to choose KLM. Hand luggage in the cabin is included in the base fare. As is a sandwich and drink (tea/coffee etc.) on board. Small things, but make a big difference.

Honestly, I came away thinking that the KLM experience is what Aer Lingus should be - not following Ryanair in a race to the bottom.

I know - but there was almost no difference in price (think it was 4 euro, or thereabouts). I don't know how KLM can make it work, but AL can't.

Anyway, just my 2 cents!

I hope so but that hasn’t been confirmed. Only Bergamo is year round so far. Rome and Venice are only bookable up to end of March 2023. Ryanair are due to announce summer schedule any day now so fingers crossed!

What's the idea of paying to bring the bag on board? I was flying to Heathrow over the summer, paid for carry on heading over. On way back, carry on was sold out, so I just checked in online and carried the bag on.

I guess where it said the status changed from “previously seasonal routes” now to yearly means all year round.The wording is a bit ambiguous with regards to Rome alright though but maybe the booking info will update past March in the next few weeks.