'IF' Ryanair do complete the takeover...its not going to change the charges that CAA charge the airlines so it's very doubtful that RYR are going to launch any major expansion at ORK in the near future. SNN is ticking over quite nicely for them and I think RYR will concentrate most of their south-west Ireland Growth in SNN . However, there is some routes that RYR and ORK could make a mint on such as ORK-PIK and I do hope that CAA lower their charges for ORK's sake as the airport has a lot of potential.
I agree completly with the previous post about possible new airlines/routes. Lufthansa (cityline maybe???) with an early morning (over-nighter??) CRJ200 to FRA could be a success and also Air Berlin could exploit some of the low-cost potential that ORK has that Ryanair, to date, have not taken advantage of.
