Sorry to burst your bubble again Provance but there were never 6 return Gatwick flights. True EZY did have 3 and FR had 2 making a grand total of 5 flights daily at very peak.
Thats more or less correct. Very shortly prior to the EZY withdrawl announcement a 3rd Ryanair ORK-LGW however went into the booking engine. Itwas a very early morning departure,something like 620/625 from what I remember.
Rather predictably once EZY made their announcement these extra flights disappeared very quickly afterwards.
EDIT: From a post on the Cork - 2 thread in July 2006:
As things stand at the moment, the flights to DUB and LGW would require 2 aircraft, as below:
1st plane:
06:20 LGW 09:35
10:00 DUB 12:05
12:55 LGW 16:15
16:40 DUB 18:55
19:20 LGW 22:40
The times for the first aircraft seem to fit very neatly into FR's usual way of working. The remaining flights would require a second aircraft, which would then have 2 free rotations:
2nd plane:
07:40 DUB 09:45
10:10 XXX ??:??
??:?? XXX 19:30
19:55 DUB 22:00
... but all of this could change ...