With Italy and Spain now on lockdown, many holidaymakers are cancelling trips abroad

The award comes for its most recent drive to increase brand awareness and maximise bookings through its digital marketing campaign Love Taking Off.

The length of Cork Airport’s main runway is not a barrier to growth - proposed reductions in passenger charges at Dublin airport are its biggest threat.

The Irish Travel Agents Association says the decision by Norwegian Air to end its transatlantic flights between Ireland and the US is a big blow to Cork and Shannon airports.

Cork Airport will be giving away free flights in Douglas Court shopping centre on August 2, as part of their 'Spin and Win' promotion.

Global and national challenges are set to be explored at the local level at an inaugural autumn school in West Cork.

Cork Airport has detained an exotic visitor climbing a fence near the runway - a ring-tailed coatimundi.

Cork Airport is to lose its first and only service to the US for the winter.

Cork Airport has been voted the world’s second happiest airport with most people choosing a smile rather than a frown as they pass through the terminal.

Business tourism is a burgeoning industry, worth €11.5m to the Cork economy in 2016. Pádraig Hoare hears from the Cork Convention Bureau that it can be worth infinitely more in the future

The annual awards of Cork Business Association — which is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2017— has heard rousing calls for Cork people to embrace what they have in their city if it is to thrive to its full potential.

Passenger numbers at Cork Airport increased by 8% last year to just over 2.2m as new routes and airlines make their mark.

Cork Airport is celebrating on the double after landing a new route and an EU award for a campaign to secure its first transatlantic service.

Passenger numbers at Cork Airport were up nearly 10% in May on the corresponding month last year, according to figures released by airport management.

The number of arrivals and departures through Irish airports soared to almost 30m last year, although Cork and Knock actually had a drop in passenger numbers.

Passenger numbers at Cork Airport are already soaring ahead of the launch of a new summer route to Madrid.

Cork’s county mayor John Paul O’Shea, has called on the Government to intervene following delays in the granting of a licence for the first transatlantic route from the city airport.

Cork Airport is getting a €100,000 marketing boost after celebrating another string of route announcements yesterday.

Cork and Shannon airports suffered significant declines in their traffic movements last month, with Cork now down almost 12% this year compared to the first four months of 2014.

A TD who does not believe the Government should wipe the debt at Cork Airport has organised a round-table conference on its future.

Cork Airport has claimed a world-first by launching a new flight tracking feature on its own app.

The plane at the centre of an emergency landing at Cork Airport last night will be inspected today.

Michael Flatley has urged foreign companies to set up in Ireland as part of a campaign aiming at attracting 5,000 new jobs to the country by the end of 2018.

Cork Airport is not attractive enough as a commercial proposition for Ryanair to operate more routes from it, according to the airline.

Cork Airport activated its full emergency plan last Thursday night when atrocious weather conditions and an impaired windscreen forced the pilot of an Aer Arann plane to abort two attempts at landing.

More than 10,000 people will travel from Cork Airport to ski resorts over the coming weeks — the highest for the region since the recession began.

From a paddle board in sunny Perth where he proposed to his fiancée, to the windswept runway of Cork Airport, Shane O’Driscoll flew through several time zones and thousands of miles to announce his engagement to his family.

Cork Airport has predicted its first passenger growth in almost five years next year following a significant €35m airline route expansion plan announced yesterday.

Cork Airport has strengthened its management team ahead of its launch as a “standalone business unit” in the coming weeks.

Aer Lingus Regional, which is operated by Aer Arann, is to increase its flights by 10% out of Cork this winter with additional flights to Birmingham and Manchester.

Cork was not included in bi-lateral agreements between Ireland and the US, so it is only since the EU–US Open Skies.

THE stallholder couldn’t understand a word I was saying.

One of Ireland’s greatest blues guitarists was remembered in Cork last night as the Guinness Jazz Festival also kicked off.

Cork Airport has received a further blow to its international connectivity as Aer Lingus plans to axe a twice-daily service to Gatwick.

Ryanair has announced a new route between Cork and East Midlands which will commence operations on Sept 1.

Mum’s the word for St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Cork, where it is hoped as many as 70,000 people will visit the city.

BUSINESS leaders are hoping the results of a survey may convince an airline carrier to re-launch the Cork-Dublin flights which Ryanair is pulling from next month.

CLOYNE and Ballinhassig served up a classic third-round tie in the Cork SHC.

TAXI DRIVER Peter Barry was sitting first in line on the St Patrick’s Street taxi rank, opposite Penney’s, when he realised something was going on.

A Garda Superintendent has now confirmed that six people have died at this morning's aircraft crash at Cork Airport.

A SURPRISE 50th birthday break lasted a week longer than planned for a German family who finally got home yesterday after flights resumed at Cork Airport.

THE independence of Cork Airport is unlikely to be realised any time soon despite strong arguments that it is vital for its survival.

PASSENGER numbers are plunging, Europe’s biggest airline say it’s too expensive to operate there and local businessmen are complaining that the place is empty.

RYANAIR, Europe’s largest low-cost airline, said it will not add flights at Cork airport because it is one of the most expensive places in Europe to operate.

CORK Airport has moved a step closer to securing transatlantic flights at the airport.