Cork suffered some cancellations today as Ryanair cancelled the Cork flight to Gatwick and the Liverpool flight to Cork due to the icy/snowy weather in the UK. To make up for it Cork has received no less than five Ryanair diversions during the afternoon - four, presumably, from Dublin being closed and the fifth diversion has been a first for Cork, a diversion from no less a place than Knock, Co Mayo when the Bristol to Knock flight landed around 5 pm with a grand total of thirty eight passengers aboard. The Knock flight must have flown abeam snn on the way down to Cork - it is a wonder they did not try to grab it flying by but then again they grabbed plenty of diversions from the Aer Lingus flights to Dublin.
Thirty eight. Made no money on that one!
A pal of our's was sitting aboard an Aer Lingus A320 for some hours at Dublin this afternoon before the flight was cancelled. Chaos all around by all accounts at Dublin with pax being now asked to leave the airport in the last half hour or so!
Hard to beat Dublin. Fleece with you with charges and when it does not suit tell you to get lost. Ireland of the welcomes, the island of saints and scholars! Yerrah, yeah!
Geniuses.
Cork is wide open though - divert to Cork for your weather and medical diversions - acute hospitals about three miles away.
That's one for the marketing department to work on for 2010!