Originally Posted by
Leo Hairy-Camel
Imagine a future where Dublin, Shannon and Cork are major centres of European aviation, rather than Paris, Frankfurt and London, as is currently the case.
I very much doubt that Cork features in Michael O'Leary's master plan. He has made it perfectly honest that he doesn't care about Cork. Their basing of one solitary aircraft at Cork was more to do with scaring off any other potential lcc's than showing any real commitment. If you don't believe me ask anyone what happened to Easyjet at Cork in particular. Aer Lingus is one of only two airlines who have shown Cork any real commitment (the other being Aer Arann). A Ryanair takeover would be disastrous for Cork. Ryanair would just move most of the routes to Shannon (their chosen one) and do all that was in their power to ruin Cork, if Cork do not provide them with a financially crippling deal charging virtually nothing to Ryanair. I as a Cork person am completely opposed to the deal