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I dont agree with that logic of a route being "done". Surely no route in any airport would have any longevity if that was the case? Hasn't Bristol, Paris, Edinburgh, Lanzarote and any number of other popular European destinations from Cork also been "done" yet they are still active routes decades later? Aren't there always a new crop of people, younger travellers, retirees or middle age travellers who hadn't the opportunity to travel previously, those that simply like travelling to a place repeatedly or those with family and business connections that sustain a route for the longer term? Your office colleagues example in isolation is too anecdotal.

I'm not sure what the logic behind Ryanair's pulling of Rome from Cork but the load factors must just not have been viable because there was not enough of an ongoing catchment area demand vs other more successful routes regardless of how "done" they were.

Not a good week for Cork as it looks like the Glasgow service is being halved for S26. Disappointing to see, but I suspect it may be soon announced that EIR will be taking on some of the Eastern and Blue Islands routes for next summer, so they will need capacity for that.

True. Ryanair adding a 4th aircraft to Shannon with 25 new cabin crew must mean Cork will be getting a 5th aircraft if 25 cabin crew are being recruited here too..

It’s been 2 years since Ryanair added a new route to Cork, it’s well overdue now.

Are all 4 fully utilised over the winter? E.g. I note only 1 early am departure by a based aircraft on Wednesday.

Therein is the need for extra crew, probably not fully staffed for 4 fully utilised aircraft over winter

Fair enough, but does my point still not stand that they don't have the same staff requirements over winter, I doubt Ryanair is the type of company who would like to pay staff sitting around idle

KLM retains 3x daily flights for S26 (no surprise) however the E295 will not fly to Cork at all for the season.

I have heard Aer Lingus will add at least one route. It will compliment one of the routes announced last year and probally x2 weekly if I had to guess. Usual caveats apply.

Hmm interesting.

Aer Lingus did serve each of Rome, Madrid and Lisbon previously at some stage over the years is the only thing

I think changes to Aer Lingus’ S26 will start from next week. Mallorca has joined Glasgow now with Tuesday and Thursday flights being taken off sale.

strange route to cut? Flew it recently for the first time and flight was full, and was also full on the way back, mix of Irish tourists and polish. Poznan flight left earlier than ours but also looked very full.

Just POZ thats moved to SNN.

Actually several new routes are showing up on Aer Lingus route map from Cork. Others include Nice, Barcelona, Rennes, Newquay and Southampton. Amsterdam and Dublin also appearing. This makes me wonder whether this is an error. https://www.aerlingus.com/en-ie/route-map

Those may not be "new" as have all been served previously (pre covid), and likely never removed from the map. Santiago de Compestela is the only one on there which has never been served before. And Dublin of course which is interesting

Every second person seems to be doing the Camino

Ah of course. The backpacking for the semi-retired