Actually Ryan I have to agree with your worries about the seasonality of S14, particularly with Ryanair - I'm not worried about Aer Lingus. They have really increased the seasonality operation of their base in Cork. Would hope this will change toward Oct 14, hearing there will be a positive announcement then for us by them.
One thing I also find surprising is how we have no year-round Cork-Faro service especially when next summer Aer Lingus will be operating 8x weekly on that route as well as Ryanair with 4x weekly services, so to go from 12x weekly to 0 in the Winter maybe shows how seasonal sensitive this market is. But I believe with even a weekly service this winter (they definitely had a slot for it, 2 in fact) it could have worked. And believe it or not, Faro does bring its share of inbound tourism, especially in October for some reason, very popular with the Southern Portuguese in that month.