CORK - 4
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Typical Cork luck this afternoon in spite of the rare diversion this morning of the FR LPL-SNN flight. The Cork bound EI823 from CDG ended up diverting to Shannon around 5 pm due to windshear on the approach to Cork. The aeroplane would have been doing the EI722 from ORK-LHR but in the end she ended up doing the flight out of Shannon at 22.25 hours tonight after ferrying up 4 coach loads of Cork passengers by road to Shannon. The only consolation was that another aeroplane positioned in to Cork to operate a later flight to Heathrow, the EI724, so the schedule was in the circumstances restored fairly well.
Out of curiousity does anyone know if the EI823 was connected up to an airbridge at Shannon on arrival?
Cork. What a place though! Drive you mad if you let it!
Out of curiousity does anyone know if the EI823 was connected up to an airbridge at Shannon on arrival?
Cork. What a place though! Drive you mad if you let it!
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So, what is the difference between a CATII autoland and one at CATIII minima, the autoland part itself should be the same?
I read about the metal plate mentioned with Zurich as an example. It might work ( that would be beyond my expertise ) but Cork has two important differences to Zurich. Zurich is set low between a number of hills so a rapid incline up to the threshold doesn't confuse the rad alt, unlike Cork and Zurich doesn't have any significant hump at the 1000' point which causes the autoland to flare too high and subsequently float.
An autoland is mandatory for ( almost all - HUD displays may be different ) Cat III operations.
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Paris
Just looked at Aer Lingus timetables to Paris and noticed that they have added an eight flight per week from Cork-Paris between 15th Jan and 19th of March. Its on a Monday morning and seems that this is instead of an Alicante rotation.
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Alicante has traditionally been the weakest of the Spanish routes for EI from Cork. Would it be worth giving it up for a while to try Valencia instead? Afterall if Ryanair ever made a go of an expansion from Cork they could try Murcia at lower cost to pick up a lot of the Alicante type traffic and get more bums on seats. 2 VLC & 3 MJV would be enough, maybe 3 & 3 in July & August if the EI schedule was so flexible. 2008 or 2009 of course!
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There are other changes too.
Faro seems to be dropped from January 15th to the end of March. The Monday afternoon service seems to be being used for an extra rotation to Prague. There doesn't seem to be anything replacing the Friday morning service yet.
Faro seems to be dropped from January 15th to the end of March. The Monday afternoon service seems to be being used for an extra rotation to Prague. There doesn't seem to be anything replacing the Friday morning service yet.
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Manchester doesn't start until March, the extra Paris flight is only until March. Anyway Paris is probably much more profitable. Have you seen the fares they're charging, and yet they always have good loads.
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Aer Arann
It has been reported on the Aer Arann thread that they are to open a new base at Waterford Airport, with the launch of new routes to the UK. What will this mean for Cork? Will it affect the number of Waterford people using Cork Airport? Cork has always attracted a significant number of people from Waterford, but more routes there will surely have a knock-on effect on Cork
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I think that RE can see EI eating up many of its' tradtional routes out of Cork. MAN and BHX are the first examples. To be fair RE have a nasty fleet of old ATR's, and so-so service. Would you prefer an ATR or 320? The advantage is their ability to offer multiple daily flights, as they used to do on MAN nad BHX. RE are targeting the likes of WAT, LBA, SOU etc because EI/FR can either not get in there or make it work with 320/738. The inability to perform Cat II also does nothing to ehance their compeditiveness. The sooner the new ATRs come the better.
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Aer Arann
When RE dropped the BHX route, it was a sad day.
The loads on that route were very good, RE have the potential to launch GLA & LCY from ORK, but fails to.
It wont be long before FR are in ORK, and they might well wipe RE of MAN, EDI, BRS & CWL
The loads on that route were very good, RE have the potential to launch GLA & LCY from ORK, but fails to.
It wont be long before FR are in ORK, and they might well wipe RE of MAN, EDI, BRS & CWL
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Aer Lingus will have a competitor on the route ORK to Warsaw from the end of March. Centralwings is about to publish its summer timetables on Monday (until then the news is unofficial though).
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Maybe they're getting tired of putting time and effort into building up a route, just to see some other airline swipe in and drive them of the route! I'd say Edinburgh and Bristol in particular are very vulnerable to a new competitor, especially considering the prices they're charging!
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Central Wings
Rumours that Centralwings have been offered a package that will see them serve no less than five Polish Cities from Cork in the near future. I presume it means Lodz, Poznan and Warsaw in addition to their existing flights to Kracow and Wroclow.
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Air bridges
Totally off the subject, but just had a thought there about the remaining airbridges, since only 1 is operating and it looks pretty miserable. Do you think like a major bank/ other business could pay for them and use it to advertise on which is seen at major airports.You see HSBC is littered across most of the airbridges at LHR. If they paid they could advertise on them for several years?? Just a thought.
Also ya think the old terminal can be knocked anytime soon so more ramp space can be made available?
Also ya think the old terminal can be knocked anytime soon so more ramp space can be made available?
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