Aer Lingus has not ruled out expanding in Cork and Shannon as it plans a huge growth spurt across the Atlantic in the next five years, but Dublin appears likely to receive the lion’s share of the airline’s investment.

A voluntary group which engineered a huge increase in visitor numbers to Doneraile Park does not intend to sit on its laurels.

Holidaymakers and other air travellers are being advised to factor in longer queuing times on return trips from European airports due to tighter security checks.

No meaningful action has been taken to confront much less resolve the pensions’ crisis, betrayal and inequity facing hundreds of thousands of workers and their dependants.

The absence of transatlantic flights from Cork Airport is costing the county jobs, the developer of a huge office campus at the centre of Cork’s latest jobs boost has warned.

European affairs minister Dara Murphy has called on his government colleagues to stand over previous commitments to protect connectivity from Irish airports in light of IAG’s potential takeover of Aer Lingus.

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.

The Government has said today that the separation of Shannon Airport from Dublin Airport Authority will create 850 jobs.

Change is needed to make the best of Cork Airport, writes Cork Chamber president John Mullins

You spend years waiting for an extra airport terminal, then two come along at once, writes Paul O’Brien.

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.