I tend to agree that many in Cork have a fascination with t/a services whereas the real focus should be on developing and maintaining European routes. T/A services are more a trophy route...the airport's real bread and butter stuff is European routes.
I fully agree with you, Asianfly. Cork needs to be able to walk before it can run, and run before it can fly. It is embarassing to see 30 odd European destinations out of SNN and only something like 10 out of Cork.
The priority should be
1) Get Cork Airport Debt Free and Independent (along with the sacking of Gantly a few other cronies)
2) Get in the Planning Application to re-open the old terminal as a low cost terminal.
3) Lower the landing charges, bring in more European routes.
4) Kick those Dublin shysters out of the Airport shops etc. and lower prices. (at the end of their contracts)
5) Get the remaining airbridges installed.
6) Buy a couple of transfer buses for remote stand use.
7) (Ideally) Upgrade both runways to Cat III, if not, one of them.
8) THEN, we can talk about t/a !
That should be enough to be getting on with !
