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

is it just AL are too lazy to update their website or is there some significance to the fact that when I looked for Cork Dubrovnik flights next October I get a message saying the timetable is not released yet? Hadn’t realised it was pulled before I looked just to explain…

pathetic really

They might replace them with mainline though. Some of the flights were already on A319 by LH.

This is part of their response to the ongoing industrial action.

If actually cancelling the whole summer schedule on such short notice, rebooking all issued tickets to KLM/AF and maybe some to Edelweiss within the same group could turn out quite expensive to Lufthansa.

I myself have a few flights booked with LH from Cork over the next months. Would be sad to see them gone, because they brought KLM/AF prices a bit down at least throughout the summer. Not much competition for European connections otherwise.

According to news articles, the cancelled flights are on high frequency routes like London where affected passengers can be rebooked on other flights that day.

61,500 passengers this bank holiday weekend, -1000 compared to last year.

Looking at their schedule it seems there might actually be only 2 based aircraft this winter. Makes sense given we will be down 4 routes on last year, and even then the 3 aircraft were hardly ever fully utilised..

Lufthansa seems to have finalised their new schedule now:

• All flights to Cork cancelled until 31 May
• June: Operated by Lufthansa (mainline) 2/7 Monday and Friday
• July: Operated by Lufthansa (mainline) 6/7 Sunday to Friday

All available for new bookings. My flights on cancelled dates until July were automatically changed to Dublin, but rebooked on KLM from Cork without any issue after calling LH.

Nothing is certain but I have bookings on Tuesdays in July and they have changed to Lufthansa (not Cityline) in my account. The agent confirmed that they're not going to be cancelled.

That fits in the June schedule. You would need to ring and ask to be rebooked on KL or AF or EI+BA.

Aer Lingus now holds the record for longest direct flight in the world…

https://x.com/echolivecork/status/2060243295729783046?s=46

The airports biggest customer hasn't announced a new route since March 2024, nearly two and a half years ago, through a period of some of the best growth the airport has ever seen. Their second biggest customer seem to be using the Cork base as leverage in collective bargaining. The airline supporting their third biggest European hub connection collapsed. Safe to say it has not been a good 2026 for the airport and there are no signs of things getting better.

Thats not been the story post covid though, both Cork and Shannon grew significantly vs pre covid traffic with Ryanair, it's not like Cork was cannibalising Shannon's Ryanair traffic. Something seems to have flipped in mid 2024 for Cork though, whether that's post covid incentives running out and/or the very public DAA comments in July 2024 advising airlines to fly out of Cork due to the Dublin Airport cap, which Ryanair strongly rebuked and aligns with the timeline of no route being added to Cork since.

I would be very interested to see what if anything they have up their sleeve in Cork Airport. Other than repairing the relationship with Ryanair there seems to be nowhere else to meaningfully grow. The projections of 5 million pax by the early 2030's seem a long way away now.

They have a long term growth deal there though.