Czech Airlines pulls plug on two new Cork Airport routes

Cork Airport has expressed its disappointment at Czech Airlines’ decision to pull two routes before a single flight had taken off.

CSA Czech Airlines yesterday confirmed that its Cork-Prague and Cork-Ibiza routes, due to start this summer, will now not proceed as planned as the proposal would not have been economically viable.

“Passenger volumes and advanced bookings for both routes and from both key markets — the Czech and the Irish — did not match the company’s expectations and were not in line with the original estimates and calculations, despite intensive marketing and business support,” the airline said in a statement yesterday.