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It'll be in Cork for the next few weeks, but certainly it'll be moving around the network, will probably end back up in Dublin for the rest of year in a few weeks.

Shows how quiet things are when the presence of the retro A320 for about the 7th time since 2011 generates such interest.

Hahahaha! Well I suppose it's something to talk about.

Will Aer Lingus ever actually have new airframes to expand their services with in short haul? Seems like ages since they received new aircraft.

Bringing back places like Berlin and Prague onto the route network would be great.

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Originally Posted by Tom The Tenor

And is that all that matters at Cork to the people whom are employed there - money? How many of them give a damn about the airport other than what arrives in their bank account of a Friday?

There have been some excellent posts on here about Cork in the last day or two and from a consciousness raising point of view it is important and, yes, this is an aviation forum, but it all needs to be uttered again and again on other forms of mediallike other social media, newspapers, radio, TV - not just on here.

You know, when you stop and think about it, it has been unbelievable what the present government has done to Cork by giving snn their so called independence essentially in order to screw Cork and to screw Knock and we have our friend above worrying about staff terms and conditions.

The Aer Rianta/DAA/CAA staff have sucked hard on the other tit of state for nearly two generations and they were only ever out for number one and many cared little about the airport. Whatever I may say about the parties at snn at least they were unrelenting in their support for their airport.

Nearly two generations at Cork Airport and the place is in a worse state than ever before and as for the Cork based TDs of Government and Opposition parties - they have all most equally served Cork Airport so appallingly it is just so unbelievable it is beyond credulity.

I hope Cork's new Marketing Manager, Ms Gackowska, knows exactly what she is now dealing with at Cork Airport and it is much more of a basic task than she may realise - doing potential deals with airlines comes down the line, first task might be something like the airport independently securing a High Loader for ad hoc freight flights and a set of steps that can reach a widebody. Nearly twenty years Cork could handle Aer Lingus 747s on Lourdes flights and now in 2014 the airport cannot. Can you believe it! What a farce!

And, it has come to my attention just in the last few days that there may be another unbelievable limiting factor at Cork but for now investigations are in hand.

If Ms Gackowska has any bit of oomph, she won't last long before she's driven out my Airport Management inertia, once they realise that she will want to change things.

Hi

Sorry after your help?
Can anyone tell me the reg of the aircraft on todays flight Voe 9530/ V7 9530
Sorry I couldn't read it off in verona today

Thanks in advance

VOE9530 23-Aug-14

Disappointing to see further cuts to the Cork Winter schedule. Reduced frequency on Malaga and Munich and Brussels unbookable.

Oh dear. How many years has Munich been operating for?

At this rate Cork will just be used to get the Heathrow, Amsterdam and Paris to connect onwards. :(

Munich isn't gone. It has a 6-week hiatus between the end of the summer schedule and the start of the skiing season. It's at lower frequency than last year then.

To be honest, I can't see the point in such a short break. It will just take passengers off the flights in October, making those less viable. Losing those passengers might be justified if you're avoiding 5 months unprofitable flying, but for 6 weeks?

Germany's connection to the south and west of Ireland is really weak as it is.

Kerry to Hahn
Shannon to Berlin

...and what extra trips have ryanair for us this winter??
Nothing.

It`s a bit surprising that Lufthansa never started a Frankfurt-Cork service given flights from Cork to other hubs like Amsterdam and London are so successful.
Dublin-Frankfurt Lufthansa A321 services are always packed and given they also fly to Knock, its all the more surprising.

Issue is slots at FRA are like gold, so any route has to make money and to be honest FRA ORK would not be a route LH would see as a big money earner, mainly tourists each way , cargo of course but they like to be sure go high yield traffic and Cork would be down their list, mind you German wings to CGN or MUC would be a runner, much lower costs for those same tourists

Cork has been actively seeking a Frankfurt service for several years and came tantalisingly close to securing one on two occasions most recently in 2012. The cost of operating into this mega hub was a negative factor.

Aer Lingus seriously considered it even more recently than 2012 but the costs were the deciding factor against it.

It would be great if Aer Lingus grew their existing Paris route and introduced a second daily service. It would make Paris another viable hub option to/from Cork.

Cork to lose its Brussels service but cheer up, we've got a Santa flight to Lapland according to a report in this mornings Irish Examiner.

I don't believe is Santa anymore, I'm a big boy now.:p As for Frankfurt I would also think the fact FR are down the road in Kerry I think has a big bearing, nobody wants to draw Fr on to them.

The examiner also says increased capacity to MAN, BHX and GLA to be added next week.

Will the additional regional capacity be added for this winter or next summer? Shannon's regional loss could be Cork's gain