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But interesting that Alghero is still up on booking engine (but without dates) whereas they removed East Midlands from list of destinations. Maybe some hope for Alghero yet?

Alghero back up and running from April to end of October. Good news!

Interesting to see EI going effectively year round with Tenerife, especially that Ryanair are now flying there 5 times a week!

I have thoughts, the DAA is a business and I doubt any half decent business (which we agree the DAA is?) would stifle one entity which the control for another…. Simple fact is aviation is a business and is about making money! If the DAA or an operating airline feel they can make money you bet your ass they’ll try!

The reason SNN is seperate was because of serious lobbying in the Shannon area who believed at the time the DAA was doing them a disservice! Look how that worked out 🤷🏻‍♂️

ORK is in good hands!

It's definitely not a positive for cork to be administered by a group from which the name is evident, that their focus is elsewhere. I don't think the DAA actively stifle cork in any way, however it is clearly not their main focus.

From Shannon's departure from the DAA over 10 years ago we see that it's not particularly going to make the airport flourish, but it can't be any harm either.

Makes total sense for them in Shannon. Utilising an Aircraft that would otherwise be sitting on the ground and zero competition to deal with. In Cork if returning to the route they would now be one of three airlines, with Ryanair having better pricing, and AF serving business demand while also having a massive route network from CDG for connections and a better product/service than AL. The Paris route from Cork probably just isn't as lucrative to them as now as years gone by, that being said I'm surprised they're still hanging in there on AMS route.

The name itself DAA dosent sound great from a cork view but would it be succesful without them.It's also worth noting Cork has been successful in attracting other airlines apart from solely dependent on air lingus and Ryanair. Would be great if the could get Iberria express back.

Take out transatlantic Shannon hasn't been successful in getting other airlines to serve part of Europe. Given its location between 2 large urban centres it should be doing better.

Cork is ticking along figures going in the right direction with plenty of room for improvement like extended service on some summer routes and some more year round routes. Agree with previous poster wouldn't be far off 3 million for 2024.

"We have exciting news coming in January when we will announce our summer schedule which will have good news in terms of return of popular routes together with some new destinations and frequencies,” he said"

Aerlingus already have their additional flights up on booking engine (albeit some cant be booked yet). I don’t think there are going to be any *new* routes because the increased frequencies they have on some routes means that the third aircraft is at full capacity (unless you call Malaga and Tenerife new routes because they didn’t run last summer).

There will be increased frequency to Faro, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca. Daily flights to Malaga, which has never happened before I think. They will also be running Tenerife twice a week over summer, which is new. Dropping evening flight to Amsterdam but keeping Dubrovnik.

I would have preferred to see actual new routes rather than additional frequencies tbh

Hopefully they are announced the 1st wk or 2 in January so they are fresh in the minds of people when majority are planning their summer holidays. I'd say the new routes are the ones we already know about for Ryanair. Unless they can get a new airline in or Iberria express back.

Would love to see Tap come on board if Aer Lingus don't bite for Lisbon potential

Would be nice if they'd give a little update on how the tendering is going (if it has even started) for the security scanner upgrades.

Ryanair also doing it and have their prices/times up

Yeah, booked Zurich through Amsterdam in recent days, very annoying to have to do it. And about to book a whole family trip to Berlin out of Dublin. I find the lack of a Cork Berlin flight for about 18 years a real mystery when you see some of the cities that have had routes in the meantime

Apart from Hahn to Kerry which exists solely for business, seems to be a route completely out of touch with reality, but it works.