Sad announcement from Air Wales today that they are ceasing scheduled passenger flying from 25th April, 2006 to concentrate on flying freight and some charters. Eighty jobs are set to be lost. A hard blow to all our friends in Wales. Let us hope new jobs are found again very soon for all those people involved. Maybe Aer Arann are in a position to offer some of the folk from Wales a fresh start be it in Ireland or at home in Wales? Good for Cork that the Cardiff route will be taken up by Aer Arann. Flying to both Cardiff and Bristol ties things up well for Aer Arann and gives FR a good run for it's money on snn-BRS!
The Aer Lingus website indicates that Cork - Nice appears to be dropped for the winter schedule 2006/7. There is also no mention of Munich for the winter as there had been hopes of a re-introduction come next October. Everywhere else is there at the moment and it looks like Faro will run too through next winter unlike this current season.
It looks now more likely the 4th EI A320 will not be based in Cork for the coming winter schedule and in order to keep Faro, Berlin and Tenerife going for the full year some rejigging of schedules will be necessary.
Something that flew under the rumor radar a week or two or so ago was another one of those charters to Sal, Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa. The outbound flight to Sal was flown by a Flyjet 757 that operated DUB - ORK - SID and the return by a Thomas Cook aircraft. Nice one for Cork. Must have been at least a six hour flight to destination? Cool.
Last edited by Tom the Tenor; 24th Mar 2006 at 14:01.