Padraig Hoare: Cork and Shannon airports need life support

Airlines will follow the money and base themselves in Cork and Shannon if incentivised to do so, it is claimed.

An empty check-in area at Cork Airport recently. Pic: Jim Coughlan

Cork and Shannon airports were looking forward to a year of growth at the beginning of 2020.

Cork was striving to bring another transatlantic route to the region, having lost Norwegian Air International’s routes to Providence in Rhode Island in 2019.