Re: CORK
ORK pilot, if you check the FR timetable for after 11th January you will find the new STN-Nantes flight is scheduled out at the exact time of the FR903/4 rotation so there does not appear to be much of a pilot shortage there, anyway? No doubt FR are being softened up by NTE with all kinds of supports to begin the new flight making it a more attractive proposition than Cork? Just hope Cork Airport thought about that before they cosied up to Mr O'Leary, Mr Cawley etc. By my reckoning Cork could be in line to lose at least 100,000 passengers a year due to the loss of FR903/4. An airport with a debt of 163 million euro for a new terminal and some of those crazy new roads and road signs can hardly afford to lose out on that kind of business. Putting it another way for the sake of some of the new breed at Cork 100,000+ passengers means a lot of lost bar/car park/sausage & rasher sales.
Bearcat, you never say never in any business? Agree though that nothing will happen unless extra aeroplanes appear from somewhere out of someone's closet for new routes out of Dublin.