It looks like there was high jinx again above at Cork last Saturday night. The story is that there was a hell of a lot of bags off loaded again from Saturday night's Onur Air flight from Cork to Bodrum. Last time the figure was seventy bags but this time the number is well in to three figures. Just imagine the problems being dealt with in getting that many bags out to Turkey as soon as possible from Cork. Hardly bears thinking about, does it! Bags will be flying all around Ireland, the UK and perhaps mainland Europe in having the bags forwarded to their rightful owners! Not to mention the cost!
Why is this becoming so much of an issue now? Onur Air have been operating in and out of Cork without problems for years so you have got to question what is going on in the two recent reports. Is it the now legendary too short runway at Cork which diverting traffic by all accounts is too afraid to touch with a barge pole unless absolutely necessary with no other alternative available, is it the performance charts being used by Onur Air and the commander quite rightly playing it totally safely taking into account what he/she has to deal with in Cork's runway limitations or are there just too many Cork Santa Ponsans bringing far too much stuff out in their heavy bags - I know the girlies tend to load too many shoes etc on sunshine holidays but this is kind of getting riduculous side, is it not?
On some other website recently I remember reading that Onur Air were using an Air Finland 757 - if this is so there might be a strong case for sending her to Cork rather than an A321?
Just imagine if you were out in Turkey for only a week's holiday and your bag did not follow you for, say, half that time!
Hmmm. That runway again? And it hardly comes cheap for the Cork consumer, does it, in terms of charges etc?
By the way the photo exhbition is in full swing upstairs near the bar entrance and at a good arm's length to the departures area so as not to interfere with the departing passengers and their relatives and friends saying goodbye to each other.
Not a photo of an aeroplane in sight, of course. There is one photo of two Emirates hostesses sitting on a yellow metal bench one girl looking the opposite way to the other girl. Might be a sign as you hear in Cork from time to time!
Guess that is the aviation contribution to the exhibition. Art my a@@!