Why an A320 from Cork when there is pre-cleared US immigration at an airport in the midwest, asks MarkD.
Firstly, it is not 90 minutes but at least double that at 360 minutes if not 400 minutes if you add in the car journey time from the Cork area, the check in time, and the American immigration screening process as well.
Similarly, on the return journey Cork people have to plead, beg and generally lower themselves in asking friends and relations to rise in the middle of the night to again drive up to the midwest to meet, greet and collect their passenger friends once more, have a breakfast roll and then head back down again to Cork. Easily, another 4 to 5 hour detail.
Cork passengers should say No to the airport in the midwest and No to their dirty politics.