Heard another story from Cork this evening that there yet may be a tiny, tiny thread of hope about CSA and Prague in that the final decision regarding their intentions towards Cork is to be made some time this week. However, this seems to contradict what is showing on the CSA website for late next January which has a connection to Prague from Cork with Malev through good ol' Budapest. Either way, it looks like Cork's fate will at last be decided upon in the coming days.
To complement JDB1052's story about renewed wettings on the ramp at Cork like on Monday morning it must also be noted that the solitary airbridge continues to be out of action. What a poor impression that must give to the airlines that had expressed a willingness to try out the new facility and so between the drenched pax and the gamy airbridge Cork is once again being shown up. You can be sure such a poor state of affairs would not exist at Shannon.
There is yet another story from Cork and golly it is not for the squeamish! The story that I am hearing is that the ground and first floor of the old terminal is becoming rat infested! I am not surprised by this turn of events. The drains from the kitchen sinks that were used to wash the pots of pans are probably so choked with decades of rotting & decayed food waste which is no longer being kept down with near continuous flows of hot water the rats are able to make an appearance and until all the rotted food is used up by the rats the infestation is likely to continue.
How very sad. What it does is to sum up in a metaphor some of the story of Cork and Irish avation what between the slackness at the heart of a lot that passed for effort & lack of vision at Cork down the years and the insipid, rotten and decaying corruption of what the Shannon stopover represents for flights between Ireland and North America. In a way, the infestation of the rats in the old terminal at Cork is a kind of brutal handing down of a kind of poetic justice to the sort of national policy on aviation that has been allowed to continue for so many generations. For example, look at the performance of one time transport minister, Mary O'Rourke and her record on air transport and what her line was on the stopover.
The rats are one hell of a judgement.
Last edited by Tom the Tenor; 12th Sep 2006 at 00:34.