Archive for May, 2008
Aer Lingus has just announced its new winter schedule for 2008/09 to Cork Airport with the addition of a new service from Cork to Geneva that will commence early December 2008.
Commenting on the news, Kevin Cullinane, Marketing Manager Cork Airport said, “We are delighted to welcome the addition of Geneva with Aer Lingus to the growing number of destinations served from Cork Airport. As Munster’s principal international gateway to the South of Ireland, Cork Airport continues to expand its network of destinations and growth into Europe which, in recent years has been led by Aer Lingus.”
May 27th, 2008
Knock Airport has announced that passenger numbers were more than 177,000 in the first four months of 2008 up 25% on the previous year .
The Airport had it’s busiest Easter on record with 30,000 passengers passing through it’s doors.
Recent additions of new routes to London Gatwick with XL.com, Bristol with Ryanair and Glasgow International with bmibaby have been a significant factor in the growth.
They also announced today that CityJet has been awarded a contract to operate a daily return service between Knock and Dublin Airport, starting 22 July 2008.
This is all very encoutraging news for the County Mayo Airport as it continues efforts to replace the transatlantic service that ran from May to October of last year. 25% growth on other traffic will certainly help to counter the loss of the transatlantic traffic over the coming months.
May 26th, 2008
Two new routes commenced in the past week at Cork Airport.
Aer Arann added a link from France when services began from Cork (ORK) to Brest (BES). Brest becomes Aer Arann’s fifth location in France adding to Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lorient and Nantes.
Flights between Brest and Cork operate twice-weekly on Wednesday and Saturday.
Ireland becomes the second destination outside of France available to passengers from Brest airport. The UK is already served by Flybe and Ryanair.
Aer Lingus also started a new route to Cork this week. This route form Jersey will be served twice weekly on Tuesday and Saturday.This is a further milestone in the development of Cork Airport as the gateway to the south of Ireland and particularly West Cork and Kerry.
May 23rd, 2008