DFW, PHL, or wherever - any large U.S. metropolis will do? PHL has the attraction of all ready been softened up by the U S Airways service over the past few summers so easy pickings there? A no brainer really!
For the same kind of reason is it hard to ever see any U.S. airline with 757s ever being brave enough to try New York to Cork? If they did it would just make it easier for Aer Lingus to arrive a little later and hover up all the business? However, if Mr Mannion has been got at by the midwest Mafia to commit to a future there would EI want to consider Cork for a transatlantic service?
Sure, you cannot compare like with like exactly but the NCL runway is at 7,642 feet and for the coming summer season Monarch are operating A330 flights from there to Orlando SFB at 4,219 miles distant whilst ORK-JFK is at 3,112 miles distance. The Aircraft Classification Numbers appear just to be within limits for a Cork - North East Corridor USA Airbus A330 type operation in theory but how might it be from a factural, technical view point of view?
Now, if EI were to lease a pair of 757s for ORK and snn operations the picture would be totally different.
Well, if representatives from the Cork board had meetings today with the Dept of Transport it sounds like it must have been urgent enough? To be doing any kind of business at all between Christmas and New Year is unusual. Guess the Euro 163 million debt must have been focusing the mind a bit over the Christmas dinner and causing some indigestion?
If that now transformed lovable rogue, Mr Liam Lawlor, was still alive he would be shoutin' out at the top of his voice - Mr Chairman, Try the Gaviscon! It always worked for me, Mr Chairman!
Last edited by Tom the Tenor; 30th Dec 2005 at 07:19.