Airport traffic up by 24% in June

LAST month was a record June for Cork International Airport, with traffic up by 45,611 passengers, or 24%.

This increase for one month represented almost half the total growth at the airport last year, which was 100,000.

During the month on four of the five Sundays, record numbers were handled with 12,006 passengers handled on June 29. By last Sunday, one million passengers were handled through and an extra 111,000 passengers for this year to date.