Aer Lingus to increase services to Cork

Aer Lingus is to base a fourth A320 aircraft at Cork International Airport from June.

The additional aircraft will facilitate three new routes to Berlin, Birmingham and Tenerife.

This latest increase in services will bring to over €100m the investment made by Aer Lingus in Cork to-date, and will result in a further 300,000 seats into and out of Cork on an annual basis.

In addition to the new services from Cork to Berlin and Birmingham — both three times weekly and Tenerife once a week — additional frequencies will also be added to existing Aer Lingus routes from Cork to Nice, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Alicante, Malaga and Rome.

The developments were welcomed today by the airport management board which also disclosed that a record 202,764 people used the airport during December.

This represented an increase of 51,702 passengers, or 34.5% on December 2004 figures.

The board also confirmed that Aer Arann plans to immediately increase its daily service Cork/Dublin service from four to five flights. Further information and booking details are available at aerarann.com.

Ryanair also operates a daily Cork/Dublin service, as well as a twice daily service to London Gatwick. Further information and booking details are available at ryanair.com.

Jet2.com is currently operating a direct service to Newcastle. Flights start from as little as €14 one-way, inclusive of taxes.

Further information and booking details are available at Jet2.com.

Malev Hungarian Airlines currently operate a Cork/Budapest service four times a week. Further in formation at malev.com.

Airport management would like to remind passengers to allow plenty of time for check-in — at least one hour and 30 minutes before scheduled flight departure times, and at least two hours and 30 minutes before charter flight departure times.

Passengers are asked to limit hand luggage to one item, and to refrain from placing sharp items in hand luggage.

Article courtesy of the Evening Echo