This is very disappointing to be losing a hub connection, this just leaves us with Amsterdam and Heathrow. Malev offered some very good connections especially to more remote parts of Eastern Europe. However their prices were rather high. Some family members of mine were going to Sofia in October and Malev from Cork were over twice the price of Czech airlines from Dublin (€420 from Cork versus €189 from Dublin with CSA). They are also rather high to Budapest, about €250 return. I suppose with the growing number of low cost direct routes from Cork to Eastern Europe they were finding it hard to compete. Hopefully Wizzair will take up the route (they have a base in Budapest), or perhaps Aer Lingus at their next round of expansion