The news that Warsaw Cork will continue into the winter is very heartening. In these more straitened times it is almost like the announcement of a new route and must be encouraging for Cork. On the down side it looks like Ryanair are to cut some FR905/6 Stansted flights on some days in the coming winter schedule. Guess if Cork hangs on to the remainder of the schedule it will be a good save.
Around 5 pm today there was a good looking ramp at Cork with four EI Airbuses and three 737 from Ryanair, Futura Gael and XL all on the ground at the same time and later before 9 pm the XL 767-200 positioned in to overnight before taking on a load of pilgrims tomorrow morning for Lourdes. Very smart looking aircraft she is and looks great in the new XL colours. It has been very busy with Lourdes flights in the last week. Last Friday there were no less than seven departures to the pilgrimage destination and four of the outbound flights were operated by 757s.
If just one of those aeroplanes could be fixed up to do just one solitary shopping flight to New York. All ways so close but yet so far.
What a pity.