Cork Airport has announced that passengers can now book flights between Cork and the USA in one single transaction.
In a deal between Aer Arann and Aer Lingus, passengers will now be able to book flights from USA airports to Cork with a stopover in Dublin. Checked luggage will be transferred au
tomatically to the connecting flight and boarding passes will be issued for the Dublin-Cork leg in the USA.
This deal will benefit both inbound and outbound travel through Cork Airport as Irish passengers will be also be able to book flights from Cork to eg JFK via Dublin in one transaction.
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Cheap flight access to Ireland has been given a further boost as Ryanair has announced 4 new routes to Ireland
The airline is commencing 3 new routes into Shannon from October 2008. All originating in Poland they will link the midwestern Airport with Katowice, Gdansk and Lodz. These will bring to 33 the number of routes into Shannon operated by the Irish low fares airline.
Ryanair also today announced that they will start a service to Knock Airport from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool. This will also commence in October 2008.
These new routes will further increase accessibility for travel to Ireland.
Here at myguideIreland, we always like to ask our Guests
why they love vacations to Ireland and what it is that makes them dream of coming back, because we all know its not the weather here!.
Based on feedback and numerous myguideIreland Vacation Reviews over the last year, here is a list of our Guests Top 10 Summer events for 2008.
1. Irish Seniors Open, Ballyliffin Golf Club – 19 to
22 June
The Old Links Course at Ballyliffin Golf Club, in Co. Donegal will see one of the strongest fields in the 12 year history of the Irish Seniors Open for the competition’s first visit from June 20-22 2008.
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Begining on July 28th, Galway will host its annual 7 day world renowned horsing racing festival. The 2008 Galway Races promise to be a real spectacle in the Irish Horse Racing calendar and will attract some 200,000 race-goers to the Ballybrit venue over the course of the event.
The Festival has established itself as the pinnacle in Irish Racing and arguably the
most lavish, colourful and sociable fixture in the Irish Racing Calendar. Its not only the quality of racing that sets Galway apart, but the coming together of racing fanatic and party goer combine to make the atmosphere something that can only be experienced to fully appreciate. True Irish Craic is guaranteed not to mention the odd one or a dozen pints of Guinness!
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Ballyliffin and Royal Portrush Golf clubs have joined forces in a united cross-border bid to bring Golf’s Irish Open to Ireland’s North Coast.
Details of this exciting initiative were revealed at a media briefing for the Seniors Irish Open which will be staged on Ballyliffin’s classic ‘Old Course’ from June 20-22 of this year.
This year’s Seniors Open will attract a very high profile field that includes Eamonn D’Arcy, Des Smyth, Sandy Lyle and Sam Torrance among others to Ballyliffin’s world famous links in Inishowen in North County Donegal.
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