weak load factors on PIK and EMA routes
So that's the real reason for dropping EMA ORK and ORK PIK. Heard that the number of routes in trouble in Shannon is 7 rather than 4 or 5. I see they've announced SNN-TRN, they offered that to ORK but the CAA saw them coming.
They weren't going to give incentives for a once weekly route and anyway there is a wide range of ski flights available from Cork to Plovdiv, Munich, Geneva, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Andorra (Gerona) none of which are operated by Ryanair.