aerlingus to reopen gatwick - cork route

[steve sanders]

from march 6.

flights muy cheap at the moment. if you love the cork, worth a peek. upsettingly, the sunday flight back to LGW is at 09:55. there are weekday flights at 9pm though.

[Twinkleton]

sweet!

[Falling At Your Feet]

Great to have this extra Aer Lingus option for London.

From March 28th the full time table kicks in: (running from 28th March to October 30th)

flights everyday of the week ex Cork at 9am and 8.45pm
flights everyday of the week ex London Gatwick at 7am and 6.45pm

[o_2_b_a_rebel]

Originally Posted by Falling At Your Feet

Great to have this extra Aer Lingus option for London.

From March 28th the full time table kicks in: (running from 28th March to October 30th)

flights everyday of the week ex Cork at 9am and 8.45pm
flights everyday of the week ex London Gatwick at 7am and 6.45pm

the 6.45pm flight departs a half hour after the Heathrow flight to Cork so not a great timetable help. Next flight to Cork on AL is at 10.10pm.

Still great to have a second route for availability etc

[storysham]

Id say its mainly a feeder for international flights out of gatwick. I wonder will ryanair respond.

when easyjet started on the route mick increased capacity and lowered the price big time. when he bullied easyjet out, he reduced the frequency to 1 a day and raised prices again.

[Falling At Your Feet]

Originally Posted by storysham

Id say its mainly a feeder for international flights out of gatwick. I wonder will ryanair respond.

when easyjet started on the route mick increased capacity and lowered the price big time. when he bullied easyjet out, he reduced the frequency to 1 a day and raised prices again.

I agree, it means Gatwick has now openened up much more flight possibilities for going onward from Cork, and with Ryanair doing lunchtime flights and Aer Lingus doing earlier and later times, it's good for this.

I was only looking at flights last week from Lisbon, and I discounted Gatwick as there was only 1 lunchtime flight from there back to Cork. Booked through Heathrow, but had I known this, I could have looked at other routings through Gatwick.

It will be interesting to see the Ryanair response. Their flight times are fine of you are just going directly to London, but not great if you are travelling onwards. It's probably less likely we will get intense price cutting, as Gatwick does not have the lower cost base of say Stanstead.

[bosco]

Originally Posted by Falling At Your Feet

It will be interesting to see the Ryanair response.

Press conference with Micko in Cork tomorrow at 11am, all will be revealed!

[Falling At Your Feet]

If he is coming to Cork for a press conference, then it has to be positive news, so I would expect new routes out of Cork to be announced.

Any airline who brings in a new route from an Irish airport,gets a deal on fees for a period of around 5 years. Ryanair pulled Frankfurt Hahn out of Shannon, as soon as the price deal ran out. They moved it to Kerry airport ! Which is a privately run airport.