At the end of the day ORK should be able to finance this on its own. If the Cork area wants to keep international services at a world class airport facility, which ORK is for the most part, the we are going to have to pay for it. Cork is a miserable hole of a town, filthy dirty and NOTHING of much substance to attract tourists. Everyone in Cork wants everything but few are prepared to pay for it. The place is inward looking and only thinks in the negative. Its time to stop blaming politicians and say SNN would never have put up with it, how many marches did ye organise, how many rallies on RTE 6.1? Its time to put up or shut up lads. Stop moaning and get on with it.
I think GVA could be launched for the winter season, as you suggest and I think MAN will go into that daily ex Sat slot. Man seems to be doing quite well over the Summer season, so hopefully it will remain once again for the winter.
Brian.