5th EI A320 or not who cares!? The CAA? They don't so why should we?
If easyJet and CSA could have been hung on to for next summer that would have done just fine. As it is Cork will be losing out on a quality connection to a great interlining hub in Prague from next January on CSA's departure and the marked drop in capacity to Gatwick from when easyJet quit at month's end and when FR halve their capacity on the route just you wait and see what will happen to London fare prices along with the loss of UK tourists to the Cork & Kerry areas as the UK city break travellers are fond of flying the flag and flying with one of their own carriers whenever possible. I am still convinced that with the tiniest bit of effort Cork could have saved an easyJet presence with a least one flight but what is preferred instead is another FR Cork-Dublin service. For heaven's sake!
It appears to me that the CAA do not have a clue, not an idea! Have you any idea just how sad it is to see the September issue of the easyJet inflight magazine and seeing Cork being mentioned for the final time? It broke my heart over the weekend.
Cork should be ashamed of themselves but then again they know little shame. Everything is arseways at Cork just like it has always been. Even with a few of the EI A320, a Futura or two, some Ryanairs, RE ATR and if you get them all around together the new airside areas of the terminal are still stretched as grand n' all as the new place is and the ongoing shafting of some corporate users by the banishing of some bizjets to the likes of Shannon for overnight parking it is clear that few lessons are being learnt at Cork. The limited ramp, the short runway & lack of CATIII, all the problems remain along with expensive restaurants with so many disinterested employes whom prefer to chat around with each other rather than serving customers and best of all you have the CAA busy bodies in their yellow dayglo strutting around the place like they are generals and are God's gift to airport management thinking that they know it all. International standards, how are ya! Whom do they model themselves on - is it the BAA at the London airports? That is some standard all right!
What will now happen over the debt of the new Cork terminal? Even Cullen and the shower in the Department of Transport must rethink again what the conclusions were in the consultantcy reports in the light of easyJet's imminent departure and the impending departure of CSA next January. There is now no way at all Cork can take on much of the burden for the new terminal with so much business being lost as the income will simply be not there!
Every cloud has a silver lining! Some cloud!
Last edited by Tom the Tenor; 11th Sep 2006 at 00:24.