Cork Airport "Destinations"

No wonder Cork airport is on its knees with Gowly clenching onto his 70 bob.

6 hours driving up to Dublin and back to save 70 euro ffs. Some tight arses about.
imagine, 3 hours driving, pissing around in a car park and trying to get a bus for another 40 minutes, x 2 all to save 70 pound, no wonder Cork airport is the way it is with lads like him around
 
imagine, 3 hours driving, pissing around in a car park and trying to get a bus for another 40 minutes, x 2 all to save 70 pound, no wonder Cork airport is the way it is with lads like him around

To be fair, I've no bother paying to fly from cork, but the selection is utter shite.


Just make that bit clear there la'.

B
 
To be fair, I've no bother paying to fly from cork, but the selection is utter shite.


Just make that bit clear there la'.

B

Lesson 1, don't explain yourself to Pol, just correct him.

I've flown from Dublin twice this year, will be flying from Cork next and then Dublin after that.

It should be Cork all the time, but it's just not workable.
 
To be fair, I've no bother paying to fly from cork, but the selection is utter shite.


Just make that bit clear there la'.

B

Well to be actually fair, you want to fly somewhere (half decent) in the first week in October.

A quick search tells me you have the choice of:
Alicante
Barcelona
Faro
Feurteventura
Gran Canaria
Lanzarote
Malaga
Mallorca
Tennerife

Granted you can't fly to all of these places 7 days a week but in my book that's not a pretty bad list. If you need to take one extra days annual leave to make it happen it's not the end of the world.

Let us know how you get on anyway and take some pics. There's a decent thread here in travel forum for holiday photos.
 
€200million and

every passenger still has to hand their ticket over to ONE person at a single gate for it to be manually checked.

32 check-in desks for airlines that have operated online check-in for years.

A massively congested drop-off area outside, but plenty of room next to it for a superfluous grass embankment and a statue of Christy Ring.

And no easy way of getting past that embankment from the long-stay car park to the terminal when it's pissing rain.

A restaurant only accessible before security, the smallest area in the entire airport where the most people are going to be congregating (waiting to board)

Excellent summary. For sheer stupidity, the layout of the airport is hard to beat.

When you land, to see older people struggling with hand luggage trying to get up the steps into the building.

I was out there a couple of weeks ago and most of the seating in the arrivals area was removed. Again, a lot of elderly men and women, there to collect their families, had to stand around - nowhere to sit down.

Not only is it badly laid out, it seems to be run by people who have no concept of customer service.
 
Few lines in d'Echo earlier this week saying that if this City Jet Cork to London City flight is a success that City Jet have more destinations lined up to bring to Cork. Rome, Madrid and Scandinavia are on the list.

Tbf, it probably isn't too much to expect access to European capitals like Rome, Madrid, Berlin and that from Cork. I use the airport a bit 'cos there's nothing worse than coming back after a week away and having to sit on a fucking bus for 3 hours, but I know plenty of people who have no option because they want to go to Prague, Budapest, Rome, etc. and you're not gonna fly Cork to Amsterdam or London to connect with these places.

Nice used be on the list too - where else has gone?
 
Few lines in d'Echo earlier this week saying that if this City Jet Cork to London City flight is a success that City Jet have more destinations lined up to bring to Cork. Rome, Madrid and Scandinavia are on the list.

Tbf, it probably isn't too much to expect access to European capitals like Rome, Madrid, Berlin and that from Cork. I use the airport a bit 'cos there's nothing worse than coming back after a week away and having to sit on a fucking bus for 3 hours, but I know plenty of people who have no option because they want to go to Prague, Budapest, Rome, etc. and you're not gonna fly Cork to Amsterdam or London to connect with these places.

Nice used be on the list too - where else has gone?

You can fly to Nice from Shannon nowadays and the times are better than the schedule for the Cork-Nice flight was when it was run by Aer Lingus, I remember when you could fly to Berlin, Prague, Rome, Budapest and Madrid from Cork, it seems like a long time ago now.
 
Too many lads too tight fisted trying to save a few bob with a trip to Dumpland rather than support the one on their doorstep.

I don't know, the flight times are a bit fucked too.. you generally fly Monday to Thursday/Friday in short haul flights for business, and Friday night to Sunday for leisure, or for long haul stuff.

Going to Tenerife from Tuesday to Tuesday is pretty useless in that regard.
 
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