Thank you, nclops, for the update. Very interesting. As far as I know Newcastle is set up as an example for Cork in case a further runway extension will ever be justified - the Cork runway is around 2133 metres and the Newcastle runway is at 2333 metres so that round figure of 200 metres fits the bill in the Cork mindset. Let us hope that one day the extra 200 metres wll be justified!
What about that AA flight - JFK-ORK-NCL-JFK? Now, there is an idea, and if not by AA how about Jet2!
