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Aer lingus brings back cargo in cork
Looks like Aer Lingus have made the decision to bring back the carrying of freight and mail on flts ex cork. Not to sure how this will go down will the ex Aer Lingus Cargo people who were redeployed or retired.....
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The only one of the routes that I'd be worried about is Leeds-Bradford.
However, with Ryanair off Nantes for the Winter, perhaps Aer Arann could look at redploying the aircraft in that direction and turning it into a year round service.
However, with Ryanair off Nantes for the Winter, perhaps Aer Arann could look at redploying the aircraft in that direction and turning it into a year round service.
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Well, it will be far better to see some cargo going on Aer Lingus aeroplanes for a change rather than waving at the passing Aer Lingus articulated lorry driving out past the gates on the way to London or Shannon or wherever.
Better late than never I guess.
Big day at Cork today - 9 Lourdes flights! It'll keep 'em sharp!
Better late than never I guess.
Big day at Cork today - 9 Lourdes flights! It'll keep 'em sharp!
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The only one of the routes that I'd be worried about is Leeds-Bradford.
Tom - interesting on the flights to Lourdes, do you have a list and equipment types? Is there anythign perticularly interesting?
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Just noticed Madrid isn't bookable after 4th of August, have they axed the route? Also Warsaw is to lose the Monday rotation for July and August, but will get it back at the end of August. Are Centralwings hurting EI on the ORK-WAW route? As far as I can see no other routes have been increased in frequency to take advantage of the decrease in frequency on Warsaw and possible axing of Madrid.
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Very disappointed that Madrid now seems doomed from Cork. Glad that the Mrs and I took a trip there and used the service back in February. Think the cousin and his 'wan' booked it a few days ago too for next October but it looks like that is very much in doubt now. Have not yet the heart to tell him.
This is some admission for me but in the great scheme of things I would rather see Madrid survive than many other routes ex Cork but there are other social reasons for that. What a great pity the route has not done better.
An extra Nice in the peak makes good sense. Warsaw will be fine between EI and Central Wings. If anything I am sure both services complement each other. A lot of Polish people are here to stay for a while and they will be going back and forth so there is little fear for Cork's Polish routes or for Shannon's either for that matter.
Wonder what will be done with the soon to be vacant Madrid rotations. That will be one to watch.
Was busy at work for most of the day so missed out on the Lourdes flights but there was certainly some variety. There were six flights in the end not nine - My Travel A330, Thomas Cook Belgium A320, Eurofly A320, Air Mediteraneanne A321, Futura. Think the Thomas Cook did two flights. Someone may oblige and fill in any missing gaps. Heard that the My Travel Airbus A330-200 eventually went out with about 356 passengers! Some load ex Cork!
Something that has gone unnoticed is that there have been a good few ad -hoc charters from the UK in recent days. Mostly operated by Eastern Airways with Saab 2000s and next week there are some more flights due in the shape of Aurigny ATRs. Unusual but very welcome. I know that there was a very tasty looking Saab 2000 in done up in the colours of an Aberdeen promotion. What is Aberdeen like for a visit? Have always had an inclination. Must be all those oil/gas flights in 70s & 80s!
Nearly forgot to mention that Cork has had the welcome return today of a Royal Navy Sea King. She flew to Collins Barracks first before returning to the airfield again to park at flying club area! Denis Joyce would like that!
The Lourdes flights must be jamming things up a bit in the North Ramp around Stands 1 & 2!? Ha, ha!
This is some admission for me but in the great scheme of things I would rather see Madrid survive than many other routes ex Cork but there are other social reasons for that. What a great pity the route has not done better.
An extra Nice in the peak makes good sense. Warsaw will be fine between EI and Central Wings. If anything I am sure both services complement each other. A lot of Polish people are here to stay for a while and they will be going back and forth so there is little fear for Cork's Polish routes or for Shannon's either for that matter.
Wonder what will be done with the soon to be vacant Madrid rotations. That will be one to watch.
Was busy at work for most of the day so missed out on the Lourdes flights but there was certainly some variety. There were six flights in the end not nine - My Travel A330, Thomas Cook Belgium A320, Eurofly A320, Air Mediteraneanne A321, Futura. Think the Thomas Cook did two flights. Someone may oblige and fill in any missing gaps. Heard that the My Travel Airbus A330-200 eventually went out with about 356 passengers! Some load ex Cork!
Something that has gone unnoticed is that there have been a good few ad -hoc charters from the UK in recent days. Mostly operated by Eastern Airways with Saab 2000s and next week there are some more flights due in the shape of Aurigny ATRs. Unusual but very welcome. I know that there was a very tasty looking Saab 2000 in done up in the colours of an Aberdeen promotion. What is Aberdeen like for a visit? Have always had an inclination. Must be all those oil/gas flights in 70s & 80s!
Nearly forgot to mention that Cork has had the welcome return today of a Royal Navy Sea King. She flew to Collins Barracks first before returning to the airfield again to park at flying club area! Denis Joyce would like that!
The Lourdes flights must be jamming things up a bit in the North Ramp around Stands 1 & 2!? Ha, ha!
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Since 2004 Aerlingus have started Milan,Munich,Madrid and Manchester from Cork and dropped them all again. They are about to re-start Munich and Manchester having dropped the latter for the busiest 4 months of the year.
In my view Aerlingus are over dependent on Sun routes from Cork.
There is a need to market these services in Munster and South Leinster and compared to Ryanair and Shannon Marketing the presence on billboards and newspapers is very poor.
Has the novelty of the short low cost city break worn off, or are higher interest rates etc slowing growth down.
In my view Aerlingus are over dependent on Sun routes from Cork.
There is a need to market these services in Munster and South Leinster and compared to Ryanair and Shannon Marketing the presence on billboards and newspapers is very poor.
Has the novelty of the short low cost city break worn off, or are higher interest rates etc slowing growth down.
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Departed Cork on Tuesday evening (5 June) and found that the departure level was quite warm after a lovely sunny day in Cork.
Was there a problem with the ventilation system, or is it just not up to the job?
Regards
Was there a problem with the ventilation system, or is it just not up to the job?
Regards
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Cant resist but if it was only the ventillation system that was not up to the job at Cork! Only joking! Mind you it has been very warm and sticky in Cork the past few days and with all that glass in the new terminal it has got to be a challenge even to the best of ventillation systems?
Have Airbus any spec out on the A350XWB yet? Not talking about anything exotic like range etc ex Cork but can they simply turn off and on to taxiways at Cork?
Let us not lose the run of ourselves!
Have Airbus any spec out on the A350XWB yet? Not talking about anything exotic like range etc ex Cork but can they simply turn off and on to taxiways at Cork?
Let us not lose the run of ourselves!
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I hope the CAA aren't cutting back on air conditioning. The old terminal was like a sauna during warm weather as the radiatiors were often switched on even in early Summer.
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Madrid has reappeared on the EI booking engine, with a full schedule until Octobr 6th. After that is rather odd. There seems to only be flights on a Saturday and Tuesday, but you can only book the saturday flight if you're flying from Cork, and can only book the Tuesday flight if you're flying from Madrid. A technical glitch? Also Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Birmingham (from October) are now operated from Birmingham, presumably by a Dublin plane on a W pattern. This means a much longer route can now be operated using the hole in the schedule on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. One of the planes operates to Rome in the morning, and arrives back in Cork at 14.10, and is free after that. This could mean a departure time around 15.00, meaning a route of over 3 hours can now be fitted in. Maybe the rumours of Krakow or Riga may come true. However with FR launching Riga from Shannon from October, maybe Krakow is now more likely?
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There is no Dublin departure from BHX between 16.50 & 17.10 when
the Cork gets back on those days.
This means that the timetable and the booking engine has not been updated or Aer Lingus has decided on a BHX base.
As I have said before no rumours at the BHX end about a base but EI has done something proactive re BHX per another rumour.
Pete
There is no Dublin departure from BHX between 16.50 & 17.10 when
the Cork gets back on those days.
This means that the timetable and the booking engine has not been updated or Aer Lingus has decided on a BHX base.
As I have said before no rumours at the BHX end about a base but EI has done something proactive re BHX per another rumour.
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The new base isn't being launched until January or February so I'd say its just a case of the Dublin timetables not having been changed yet. If EI do set up a BHX base, I'd say all Cork flights will be operated by a BHX based aircraft since the summer schedule for Cork based aircraft can't fit both BHX and Manchester, so if thay wanted to continue both they would otherwise have to use a lot of W patterns or else drop existing routes. I'd say BHX has a good chance of getting the new EI base since it has a lot of potential with many major European cities that EI serve not already served, or else served at astronomical prices by Flybe.
The new base isn't being launched until January or February so I'd say its just a case of the Dublin timetables not having been changed yet. If EI do set up a BHX base, I'd say all Cork flights will be operated by a BHX based aircraft since the summer schedule for Cork based aircraft can't fit both BHX and Manchester, so if thay wanted to continue both they would otherwise have to use a lot of W patterns or else drop existing routes. I'd say BHX has a good chance of getting the new EI base since it has a lot of potential with many major European cities that EI serve not already served, or else served at astronomical prices by Flybe.
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Cork Airport was buzzing both air and landside this afternoon with fairly regular landings and takeoffs of both scheduled, IT, bizjet and even some local general avation fixed & rotary wing movements arriving over the course of hour and a half or thereabouts. I am sure that air operators would readily welcome the provision of a parallel taxiway between the intersection and the end of runway 35. It would have come into it's own today and would have easily saved lots of time and money for all concerned.
It was great seeing so many movements and the ramp looked really well with both the Astraeus and Monarch 757s along with other Bulgarian, UK and Spanish operators all parked up waiting for sun bound Cork Airport passengers to be off on their way. The check in desks were very busy too and the queues of IT pax waiting to check in ended up mostly in an L shape back along from the desks. To the eye it did not look to good as the IT pax were somewhat cutting across some sheduled pax booked out on EI flights making their way for their check in desks. The IT queues were so busy that I did not even see what it was like near the Ryanair desks. Hopefully, all FR flights are performing well at this time of year.
Speaking of FR there was a bit of the gee up to the system when a Ryanair 737 did a go around from an approach to 17 around 3.30 pm. Weather was good at the time apart from some haze which may have been limiting visibility just a tad. Not fully sure but she may have been the LPL flight.
The later arriving bizjets, a Challenger, a Falcon 50 and a medium sized Citation were the other welcome Sunday afternoon arrivals but Cork has got to stop banishing bizjets to Shannon for parking. I understand that one of 'em was told that they can return to Cork tomorrow some time after 7 pm. This state of affairs is just not good enough. Heamorraging business unecessarily to rival airports like Kerry and Shannon is crazy. And they are trying to pay for a new terminal at Cork?
It was great seeing so many movements and the ramp looked really well with both the Astraeus and Monarch 757s along with other Bulgarian, UK and Spanish operators all parked up waiting for sun bound Cork Airport passengers to be off on their way. The check in desks were very busy too and the queues of IT pax waiting to check in ended up mostly in an L shape back along from the desks. To the eye it did not look to good as the IT pax were somewhat cutting across some sheduled pax booked out on EI flights making their way for their check in desks. The IT queues were so busy that I did not even see what it was like near the Ryanair desks. Hopefully, all FR flights are performing well at this time of year.
Speaking of FR there was a bit of the gee up to the system when a Ryanair 737 did a go around from an approach to 17 around 3.30 pm. Weather was good at the time apart from some haze which may have been limiting visibility just a tad. Not fully sure but she may have been the LPL flight.
The later arriving bizjets, a Challenger, a Falcon 50 and a medium sized Citation were the other welcome Sunday afternoon arrivals but Cork has got to stop banishing bizjets to Shannon for parking. I understand that one of 'em was told that they can return to Cork tomorrow some time after 7 pm. This state of affairs is just not good enough. Heamorraging business unecessarily to rival airports like Kerry and Shannon is crazy. And they are trying to pay for a new terminal at Cork?
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Ample parking room at Cork for biz jets if they use a small bit of imagination. They could learn from other airports at home and aboad. A stand designed for a B747 or an A330 should surely be able to accomodate more than one Citatation at a time.
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I guess that would be exploring the outside of the envelope and being creative to park more than one Citation in a widebody stand!? Is it such a big ask for the powers that be at Cork to look into the situation?
One of the guys from work was in Budapest last week. They came back last night on the Malev and the flight was jammed. Always good to hear.
There have been a few more Lourdes flights today seeing a welcome return of Thomas Cook Belgium, Air Mediteranee and CSA Airbus aircraft.
Now that Madrid has been given a reprieve until October hope yez all consider taking a trip there before the route ends for the winter.
One of the guys from work was in Budapest last week. They came back last night on the Malev and the flight was jammed. Always good to hear.
There have been a few more Lourdes flights today seeing a welcome return of Thomas Cook Belgium, Air Mediteranee and CSA Airbus aircraft.
Now that Madrid has been given a reprieve until October hope yez all consider taking a trip there before the route ends for the winter.