How do we get to eleven long haul aircraft? They have seven active A330s and three lease B757s? I didn't count the B757s as they're not mainline but you get the idea. They can't be flying 38 narrow bodies to feed around ten long haul aircraft split across two long haul airports. The only feed is at DUB, if short haul can't make it's way in that business model, then it's dangerously skewed to one part of the business?
Just because you don't count them doesn't mean they should be excluded. 11 also included the additional 332 coming.
It's 36 narrow bodies on short haul and just because it don't make major profit means nothing as it's performance is always improving however it has being hit with industrial action over the last 2 years which will always impact consumer confidence. Thankfully that's all done with now!
"Im starting to wonder though, why does EI fly from cork?"
politics of course
They would drop Cork if they needed to, politics is Shannon's tool but they wouldn't let that stop them which has being demonstrated over the last number of years.