Re: Re: Developments in Cork

The Old Terminal Building is a bit of a red herring. It would cost too much to operate both facilities at the same time, especially when the new one can handle plenty more passengers.

I’m tempted to say the same about Ryanair. Michael O’Leary has a deal he is happy with in Shannon and very few of those routes have enough passengers in the Munster area to justify service from both airports.

In some way the pity is that when Ryanair set up their “base” to get rid of EasyJet that the airport board didn’t use it as leverage in striking a deal with EasyJet to get them to open new services from the airport. Most people who follow aviation developments saw what O’Leary was up to; somehow the airport board couldn’t. Still that’s what you get when you appoint loads of people who know nothing about aviation.

I reckon it’s time to sell the airport to the private sector to see what they can manage, because the current system really is not working.

Incidentally, Aer Lingus have raised capacity to London, It’s Ryanair that cut it after EasyJet left.