I'm actually surprised EI don't want to to feed transatlantic flights though. I know it would take people off ORK-LHR and ORK-AMS, so the benefit isn't what it might be, but it would still make a lot more money for them to fly a passenger across the Atlantic.
But surely EI is
already getting the lion's share of transatlantic traffic to/from Cork, either via LHR/AMS, or via people travelling by car/bus to Dublin or Shannon?