I can't see many people from Cork driving to Dublin to catch a flight to Madrid.
Ya, but they do.
For Madrid and Brussels, and Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt, and Scandinavia, and the Baltics, the list is very long....
The problems with flying to Dublin are:
- The flight is delayed, you miss your connection and you're fecked
- The Ryanair schedule is changed, that complicates things
- There are cheap flights from Cork to Dublin today, but maybe not forever...
Many expats and tourists with a destination in Munster fly into Dublin and then rent a car. Flying into an airport near
Portlaoise would be a lot more attractive for this people.