Where ever the responsibility lies there was certainly a shocking exhibition of arrogance shown by the airport bosses when it came to the lack of visitor friendly facilities in the design of the new Cork terminal. Decades of tradition wiped out by not allowing locals to see the aeroplanes and meet & greet friends and relations and to have a pint etc. Arrogant thoughtlessness all right and the same mindset continued in the way the arriving passengers have to climb so many flights of stairs. It is a bit sick to see aircrew from the resident airlines being in a position to dodge off when their job is done and pop up the lift & away while some of their passengers of a few minutes earlier, some with reduced mobility and stiff limbs after cramped flights having to traipse up flights of stairs. That is what you might call a grand Cead Mile Failte go Corcaigh?
And now because of the national economic crisis there is a suggestion that the Dublin Airport Authority may be less able to carry Cork & Shannon. If that is what they would like to see happen the DAA should sell off both Cork and Shannon for a euro and let the Cute Hoors types take over, pay off the DAA staff, and let some crowd with a Ryanair type management make something of it. Why not? After all, it was not only during the last year of the recession Cork began losing many of it's best routes and airlines, eg CSA, Malev, easyJet etc.
It is one thing to lose out on good airlines and routes but another not to redouble the work to replace them with airlines and routes of equal status. Cork had it very good and so much of it has now slipped away.
What will Cork be left with now and into the future?
Some poxy, kiss of death deal with Ryanair? Green shoots my ass!
How are yez all enjoying yer Peking Duck? They are very good at Ducking & Diving in Cork! Any sign of trouble wheel in the public relations company and hide behind their skirts. Ah, there are some very big men in Cork all right.