Passenger numbers at the airport are expected to rise by 5% over the winter period, according to Managing Director Niall MacCarthy.

The services which will run from April to October will complement the existing Cork to Paris daily schedule.

Passenger numbers at Cork Airport have increased by 9% to just over 2m in the first nine months of this year.

The low-fare airline, is now flying from Cork to Malaga six times per week as well as four flights a week to the Spanish resort of Palma, now four per week.

The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has claimed there is "a consistent oversupply" of transatlantic flights from Ireland.

Transport minister Shane Ross has been urged to intervene in the plight of Cork Airport after Norwegian Airlines’ decision to discontinue the hub’s only transatlantic service.

The airline has blamed the global ground of 737MAX aircraft for the decision.

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It was presented the award for airports which serve under five million passengers at the Airport Council International awards in Cyprus.

Deirdre O’Donovan has been appointed as the new head of security operations and police at Cork Airport.

The airport says arrivals and departures will be up 10% over the same period last year with June 1 expected to be the busiest day.

Frankfurt, Brussels, and Berlin are the most desired destinations from Cork Airport among businesses, while there is a growing clamour for a direct flight to New York City, a new report has shown.

The airport will be a hive of activity this Easter holiday weekend.

Cork Airport has launched eight new routes to its summer schedule offering new services to Croatia, Italy, France, Hungary, and Poland.

Holidaymakers in the south will have the option to visit destinations from Dubrovnik to Lisbon, and from Naples to Poznań, with new flights.

Norwegian said in response to the suspension of Boeing 737 Max planes by European aviation authorities, which are used on its Cork and Shannon routes to the US, it would transport passengers by bus to Dublin, where they will fly on different Boeing aircraft.

“We are delighted to officially open our open plan office facility (the Hub) in the terminal, along with the Airport Control Centre today," said Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director at Cork Airport.

The flights from Cork to the Portuguese capital will begin in October 2018.

As Cork Airport celebrated a year-round link to Paris, Ryanair has been forced to cancel several flights today due to a strike by French air traffic controllers.

Cork Airport recorded a 5% increase in passenger numbers in January compared to the same period in 2017.

The return of duty-free shopping between Ireland and the UK would be a silver lining in the aftermath of Brexit, says the managing director of Cork Airport.

Air France’s new daily flight from Cork to Paris will open up a vast long-haul network to Irish passengers and boost inbound tourist numbers to the south.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

Swiss International Air Lines is expanding its Cork-Zurich service for 2018, on the back of demand from the region’s pharma firms.

The appointment of a new chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has been broadly welcomed in Cork, with interested parties saying his strong background in retail and services will complement the county’s airport growth strategy.

Cork businesses have backed calls for a €12m stimulus package for the tourism industry in the wake of falling UK visitors following sterling’s post-Brexit vote slump.

Long delays for holidaymakers at major European airports including Dublin could lead to short-to-long term opportunities for smaller airports like Cork and Shannon, the head of the Irish Travel Agents Association has said.

The launch of Cork Airport’s first direct transatlantic service last month helped boost its July passenger figures.

The head of the airline which has launched a raft of low-fares transatlantic flights from Ireland — including Cork Airport’s first scheduled direct service to the US — has given a “personal guarantee” that they are “here to stay”.

Ireland’s three main airports will usher in a new era in transatlantic travel this weekend with the launch of direct low-cost flights to America.

A hard Brexit would be “catastrophic” for the tourism industry in Ireland and all stakeholders must push to ensure the best possible outcome in light of the UK election, the boss of Cork Airport has said.

Cork Airport is on course for 5% passenger growth this year despite feeling the first “chill effects” of Brexit.

Increasing competition for the long-haul, low-cost transatlantic market will be a boon for passengers as airlines tussle for a share of the market, a leading aviation analyst has said, writes Padraig Hoare.

Increasing competition for the long-haul, low-cost transatlantic market will be a boon for passengers as airlines tussle for a share of the market, a leading aviation analyst has said.

Cork Airport is heralding a new era in transatlantic travel thanks to Wow Air’s new direct service to Iceland.

A Cork flight to New York will happen sooner rather than later, the managing director of Cork Airport has said. 

The head of one of Europe’s largest low-fares airlines has promised to shake up the Irish transatlantic market after launching 17 ultra- low-fares flights from Ireland to the US — including the first direct transatlantic route from Cork Airport.

Eoin English looks at why it was such a struggle to convince some of the stakeholders that transatlantic flights to and from Cork would be a good deal all round.

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.

Tourism chiefs will aggressively market the Cork and wider region to American and Canadian cities in order to capitalise on the first transatlantic flights this summer.

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.

Swiss International Air has a new route between Cork and Zurich.