Cork Airport is too busy feeling sorry for itself with the previously mentioned cap of Euro 163 million imposed by the DAA for the new terminal let alone to be talkin' with Continental?
Let us get our head around this for a moment - if Cork with it's poor weather record cannot get a few more bob together to have two airbridges rather than the one why would Cork be talkin' with CO, FR? It is hard to see any kind of snn type deal being done in these circumstances? For the airlines it must come down to - Show me the money!!
Of course, the situation may be redeemable. The hapless gang at Cork could always go cap in hand to the wannabe Cork Taoiseach, Micheal Mairtin, Minister for Enterprise, no less(!) and Chriost Ri iarr dalta (past pupil for our English readers) and plead for a few extra poundeens for some corrugated iron for the 2nd airbridge etc.
If Minister Mairtin was from the wonderful world of the midwest rather than Cork you can bet that a deep path would have all ready been beaten to his ministerial door pleading, cajoling, begging, threatening etc for an extra little something to keep the 1960s dream going that when every airliner was going west across the North Atlantic they had to sometime end up at De Valera Field and it's nice, long runway at Rineanna.
Ah, shure, 'twould bring a tear to the eye and there they all were on TG4 on Sunday night.
Last edited by Tom the Tenor; 5th Dec 2005 at 23:08.