New business.
Reports about EI putting an additional 320 in Cork have been circulating at the airport for some weeks and are firmly based .
The 2nd FR738 rumour surfaces from time to time and is a bit more difficult to assess. Many of the UK provincial cities served at present by ATR's i.e Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds are tailor made for Ryanair as are Glasgow (Loganair withdrawing), East Midlands, Bournmouth etc.
It also will be intersting if FR's decision to go head to head with EI in Dublin will be replicated at Cork or will they allow the latter to have a monopoly to Berlin, Paris ,Rome, Barcelona, Malaga, Faro, Lanzarote etc.
Of course the impact on yields at SNN will be another factor.