Was in the Cork terminal around tea time on Friday evening and the knock on effects of the previous night's diversions were plain to see. It was a mess with the place crowded out and the Liberty Stream Creche going at full tilt with playful, screeching children running around like mad things! What the decibel level must be! Far noiser than any first generation jet or Concorde to be sure! The main restaurant was doing the usual Cork thing by closing and the queues for the Coffee Cuisine shop were very long with throngs of hungry customers waiting patiently to be served.
The EI to Alicante was boarding going out a nice few hours late around 8.30 pm. The two Heathrows, EI715 and EI723 came in within a few minutes of each other making the '715 more than 4 hours late before she went out again as the EI844 to Amsterdam at 2125 hours about 3.5 hours late. The inbound FR from DUB was late due to wx at Dublin so when she eventually got in and emptied there were then three Londons boarding, FR908, FR9854 & EI724. The EZY788 had just got out beforehand. What a sight it would have been to have the 4 Londons boarding together!
So many people's weekend travel plans were so disrupted on a busy Friday. What a shambles the state of Cork Airport is in when the weather goes bad! Whatever it takes, money, earthworks, etc a CATIII landing system just has to be insisted on for Cork Airport.
You know what was funny? An RE from DUB was late due to the Dublin weather and in the end they had to give out food vouchers to the outbound pax to DUB. Good, says you but guess what - by the time the Coffee Cuisine shop at Cork closed the vouchers would only be redeemable at Dublin Airport!