Great news about the update on the Gulf Air flights. Cant wait! Dubai, Abu Dhabi & New York JFK all on the Cork boards in the same few days. Heady stuff indeed. Good that the flight is operating out through Dublin really - critical mass and all that out of DUB makes it easier to fill a smaller amount of seats out of Cork.
Am glad that Michael O'Leary has made his intentions clear about no expansion at Cork. This allows the field open for other new LCCs to examine the place without having FR looking over their shoulder. Maybe Shanno*n needs to be rescued - thankfully, Cork does not.
However, O'Leary's remark about the runway being too short is, of course, correct. It needed to be said. Very few aircraft have as good a power to weight ratio as the Boeing 757 which makes the New York service so possible. Even a 200 metre extension to runway 17/35 would have made the flight to Dubai possible direct? Or possible future flights to Orlando?
At present the new EI services to BCN & ALC are performing superbly and even MXP is also doing very well. Early days of course but all boding well for the summer so far!
