There appears to be a growing sense of foreboding elsewhere on this forum about easyJet's possible intention of quitting their operations from LGW to Cork, Knock and snn.
It seems the Irish operation is being looked at as a whole by easyJet - is this the case? If so, why should easyJet have such a surely flawed policy? Any route should succeed or fail on it's own merits and not have to be looked on as a part of a block of a number of particular routes? What credibility does a theory like this have?
Yes, it looks like easyJet are being beaten by Ryanair at snn but why should it follow that the other parts of an Irish operation should also be brought down when there is popularity, especially in Cork, for the easyJet product?
Ryanair have never had much respect for Cork Airport. No later than last week or so O'Leary was flinging out shocking insults at Cork Airport and her new terminal buildings, running us down in the kind of nasty way Ryanair do best.
Is easyJet going to allow itself to be bullied into submission by Ryanair at an airport which it (Ryanair) despises? I know little about beancounting but I understand shareholders expect a return on their investment and that is fine. Well, why does easyJet not just get on with it at Cork Airport and serve both it's shareholders and it's LGW-ORK customers who have said 'Yes' to easyJet?
Sure, Cork Airport has been quietly deaf and dumb - at times it seems as if there is no eye at all on the ball but for God's sake this time more than any other it is proper to put Cork and Cork Airport first above all and save this route to Gatwick.
This is it, this is the bottom line for Cork Airport. Save Cork Airport's gateway to Gatwick and everything that means or just lie down and die and let yourself be more and more humiliated by Ryanair and Shannon Airport.
This is Cork Airport's end game. No one, no new CEO or anyone else or anything else such as the new terminal or even a runway extension will ever mean one jot if Cork Airport is brought so close to it's knees by such a failure.