PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - CORK - 5
Thread: CORK - 5
View Single Post
Old 12th Sep 2009, 07:59
  #1719 (permalink)  
jiffajaffa
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Ireland
Age: 41
Posts: 55
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The Aer Lingus aircraft may spend more time in the air than the Cork FR aircraft but in terms of rotations the Cork FR aircraft is maxed out and it is not possible for it to do anymore rotations so therefore it is the most utilized with a max of 10 rotations per day, block times for Dublin are 50 mins and LGW is 1hr 25mins, I didnt say anything about doing a 25 min turnaround in LHR but im certain Aer lingus turnarounds are nowhere near the 25mins FR have so therefore there aircraft could prob be utilized more.

If FR had more aircraft in Cork you can be guaranteed that the aircraft would be utilized to the max, however im afraid this probably will never happen..

On another note, recently in the past 2 months I have never seen the Airport and terminal so quiet, was parked up a few weeks ago on a Sat in the middle of August supposed to be the busiest day for the airport and we were the only airplane on the ramp and it didnt look like there was many pax hanging around in the departure lounge either, kinda shocking to see the airport so quiet and it can only get worse for the Winter! Fuellers have reported a huge drop in business and dispatchers are saying they have never seen the place so quiet!


JJ
jiffajaffa is offline