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

thank you for replying Thebetsy very much appreciated.

Cork Rome for winter

If everything is on time 40mins is perfectly doable. We've got off the Cork flight and arrived at a gate for Berlin in 15mins. Remember as well that you'll have a through ticket so they'll have to get you there.

40 minutes is tight but fine - I've done it a few times and its a bit hair raising but you can do it. Your luggage likely won't though, so hand luggage only perhaps.

If you don't make it, they'll put you on the next flight (and there are loads from Amsterdam to Paris). KLM are very good with that sort of thing.

Would be great to see them open a base here. I think there could be scope for them to operate a daily Birmingham, Ryanair times and frequencies are awful especially for business travel. Ontop of those two and Bristol, maybe Southampton, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, possibly Rennes and Newquay in the summer and maybe even Dublin to feed the T/A network. All the above operated by Stobart and some stage in the past

Emerald do Bristol already, one flight most evenings.

Jersey was nice when they had it - albeit very niche. They were thinking about Dublin to feed the TA network just before Covid and that would be a great one to have. People would pay a premium to preclear in Dublin but have a short flight up from Cork beforehand.

The source of the rumours said they were looking at a base in Cork for Summer 25 with Dublin, Southampton and London City added. There is some absolutely mad stuff said in the thread though, search Cork Reddit to find it. Highlights for me aside from the Emerald rumours:

1. Aerlingus to base 5 planes in Cork next summer up from 3.
2. Ryanair to base 5 planes in Cork next summer up from 4.
3. Turkish Airlines pulled out of advanced talks to start a 3 times weekly flight to Istanbul.
4. The airport are in talks with Qatar to fly a 737 Max to Cork
5. The Delta deal that fell through was enormous and merited pre clearance to be set up. Seems like Covid happened at the worst possible time for the airport.
6. Aerlingus want to fly A321LR’s to the East Coast but it could be up to 5 years away.
   

Some mad rumours alright. Would be great an extra aircraft or 2 based in cork although needs to be wary on its reliance on Ryanair.The one thing about Cork Airport,I hope they continue to be successful in attracting new routes and continue to grow passenger numbers. After over a decade living in Cork I now live closer to Shannon. The Cork marketing etc is head and shoulders above it. I prefer to use either over Dublin. Definitely easier to navigate with young kids too

The only logic that I can think of with regard to those rumours is Cork benefitting from the passenger cap at Dublin.

that’s not the source of what I heard about Glasgow specifically. Some mad stuff on that thread alright!

The 737 Max can do it, as can the 737 800, as both were utilised by Norwegian when they operated to Providence.

Also surely the A321 Neo can also do it.

They only have the standard 321NEO in the fleet with no LR’s on order, Maxes are on the way yes but won’t be used for atlantic routes and the 738 can make it but is extremely limited, and also not used on domestic routes only!