Originally Posted by neidin
.....Forget pie in the sky flights to America off a foggy short runway. Cork needs to worry about bread and butter flights from a small catchment area of just 500,000 pax. Worry about Birmingham Uk and not Birmingham Alabama.......Forget all this rubbish about CAT III. The land is too sloping - it will never happen.........Five different operators over the last 4 years have anounced USA flights, started taking bookings and cancelled them before they started. Seems like a pattern there. If there is such a theoretical demand out there - well these mystery Cork people - don't seem to want to spend the money.
All very true.
There's a lot of talk about these routes, but when it comes to the crux, no one wants to use them. I think some have yet to get over the fact that Cork is still only a small regional airport, not the next Singapore or Dubai.