Would rather drive a bit longer then transfer at another airport or end up at a tiny airport with a 2 hour bus ride to my actual destination.
Hopefully they could add more flights to Cork Airport as its fairly annoying having to take a 3 hour Aircoach to Dublin Airport and having to be there 2 hours before your flight.
I have been looking for flights to Berlin yesterday. It would cost me 900 euro to fly from either cork or Shannon airport for the two of us. Also it would be a 13 hour + travel time
So even with the diesel prices up and the parking it’s cheaper and a lot faster to fly from Dublin .
There should be way more flights from cork and Shannon airport to more destinations.
Is there many domestic flights in Ireland?
I live in Shannon all my life and have yet to fly out of there.
Wasn’t there a guy on here the other day saying his flight from knock was changed to Dublin without consulting him?
Might have something to do with the DAA trying to kill off Shannon and form a monopoly. But the government seemed happy to sit back and let that happen.
3 airports? I thought it’s only Cork and Shannon
Shannon only tends to have flights to the UK, US and then the typical holiday destinations like Spain and Portugal. I flew from Shannon to Berlin some years ago and it was great, wish they didn’t cancel it. And how I’d love if Shannon flew to either Belgium or the Netherlands – any airport there would be fantastic!
Seems to be only direct flights to ,
Alicante
London
Frankfurt
Faro
Dublin
Close two out of that 3 and put the money into the expansion of Dublin Airport. Country of 4.8m don’t need that many airports.
“Driving past three airports?”. So they are going from Cork Airport, up past Kerry Airport and Shannon to get to Dublin. Efficient!
This subreddit last year was largely in favour of airports being entirely shut despite it having a negligible impact on preventing Omicron and transmission rates.
Airlines accordingly yanked routes from the regional airports since there were no bums on seats.
It’s ultimately Cabinets fault as they called for those covid measures but we shouldn’t have some sort of revisionism where people forget about the policy points they wanted without thinking of the consequences
Never realised how many people from outside the area fly from Dublin until this whole mess erupted…
I live 5 minutes from Shannon airport. I have a girlfriend in the Netherlands and if I want to see her the transport to Dublin literally costs more than the flight. €28 for the express bus to the airport, €20 for the flight itself. Fucking ridiculous
Nothing worse than getting on a bus at 1am in cork to catch a 8am flight from Dublin,,it ruins the first day of the trip because I’m absolutely knackered by the time I get to my destination,,I hate Dublin airport with a passion
In Fairness we don’t really need another main airport in the country. Dublin is large enough to accommodate the needs of the country and having multiple airports of similar capacity would be too expensive, lead to less flights in a centralised location and have higher emissions
I avoid Dublin airport where at all possible since I live in Munster. Even before the current issues, I’ve always found the transit from parked car to bum on plane to be way less stressful in Cork. The single biggest disadvantage for Cork is the risk of fog but its quite rare to see flights cancelled for that.
Knock airport and Derry airport have FUCK all choice. Derry only offer flights to Manchester, when the population of Liverpool is near half of Northern Ireland lol.
I live a 50min drive from Shannon airport, 1hr drive from Cork airport, and I STILL end up having to fly from Dublin airport whenever I travel.
Anywhere I want to go, doesn’t fly from Shannon or Cork. Would love it if they did, it would save having to spend the bones of 3 hrs driving up to Dublin, and the same again after my trip away.
There is solution to this (esp considering that airlines will not have that level of connections from other airports as they are far too small for it); build a proper rail network. It was proposed almost 2 decades ago. Let me check what came of it. Oh wait!
Annnnnnnnnddddd I will walk 500 miles
I think the easy(/ier) fix would be to focus on upgrading transit and roads on the Cork/Galway corridor (namely the Limerick/Cork stretch) and have one main airport that serves those cities.
Shannon, Cork and even Kerry airports all try and serve the same region, and you end up with each airport fighting for scraps. You’d be far better to focus most all that traffic through one spot, and make that the hub for the main population centres out west.
Imo Shannon with better connections would be my vote, as from there you’re within an hour’s drive to Galway, Limerick, and anywhere in Claire, plus Cork and spots like Killarney/Tralee/Tipp/Cashel would all be just over an hour away.
Flew from Cork last week and it was so handy not a bit of stress, Waterford Airport is meant to be reopening but who knows what flights they’ll actually get
Lads if you’re flying to the UK and don’t know about these dirt cheap connections from Knock…
I have no words how much I hate going from Cork to fucking Dublin to take a flight to anywhere I need to. I either fly out to London to catch a connection for which I need to wait 5 hours in the airport, or I sit my ass on a bus with my 1y.o. daughter and wife for 3 hours. going from Bandon, Co. Cork to Bucharest takes 12 fucking hours. disgusting, outrageous, absolute disregard for public needs… heh, there are words actually. wait. imagine how fun it is to travel with a kid for 12 hours in 4 different types of transport, just to get to your destination.
Is the elephant in the room not that there’s probably too many airports down that end of the country?
One big airport in the Southwest would be a far better counterweight to Dublin than Cork, Shannon and Farranfore all vying for the same customer base?
Cork is probably being mismanaged by DAA, I accept that. But even if managed well, it’ll never pull in the same airlines and routes as Dublin when it has a catchment area of Cork and maybe south Tipp, Waterford, and realistically Farranfore and Shannon are nibbling away at parts of those as well.
Tbf there is just not alot of the flights people want in other airports…..altho the trip on the train to Dublin and across from hueston to the airport can be a mare….and in some cases linger than a connection flight
Shannon’s lack of options is horrendous. Sick of flying out of Dublin.
Knock is so handy for anyone in the west/northwest shame its limited on where you can fly too..
Was booking a flight, did some research, wanted to fly from cork… 300eur return, checked Dublin… 100eur.
Not like I didn’t try, if you want us to go to the nearest airport then you gotta charge the same price. I know that’s ignorant but damn I ain’t turning my nose up at 200eur savings.
> Mr Henry […] stated there is a mistaken belief that if you throw more managers at a problem it will get solved. He said: “That is not how it works, it will just create more noise.”
Haha, he’s 100% right! I wish more managers realized this.
Flew from shannon to america last week and i can honestly say it was such a pleasant experience. Only complaint was having too much time, took a grand total of 10 mins to get through security and US preclearance. Will be a long time before I try fly from Dublin again.
German here, i was in febraury in Shannon.
Flying via Dublin, because the connection Frankfurt – Shannon takes between 9-15h, vs 2h to dublin plus 2h car ride.
Didnt know that Dublin Airport is such a mess while booking, Thank to everyone in this Sub, I was on time on the Airport to get the flight home.
I’d love to be able to fly from Shannon or Knock. Unfortunately I mostly need to go to Germany and there are no flights from Shannon. Knock’s offering is Cologne which is the wrong part of the country for me 🙁
Dubliners: “What do you mean ‘outside’ Dublin?”
My closest airport is Belfast international… But it’s so shit I fly from Dublin when I can
Flying to California in October, will be first time I’ve flown from Shannon Airport! Just have to figure out how to get to Shannon 😂
When I come over from England we fly Gatwick to knock, lovely little airport and there is a supermacs just down the road
What I would give for Galway airport to be useable
The fact when I use Dublin it works out cheaper sometimes to fly Kerry to Dublin and connect than go from Cork or Shannon is another issue especially with transatlantic flights.
The reason airlines love Dublin is because it’s a hub airport. There’s interchange and code sharing so people can get to destinations all over Europe. USA pre clearance makes Dublin even more appealing
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Would rather drive a bit longer then transfer at another airport or end up at a tiny airport with a 2 hour bus ride to my actual destination.
Hopefully they could add more flights to Cork Airport as its fairly annoying having to take a 3 hour Aircoach to Dublin Airport and having to be there 2 hours before your flight.
I have been looking for flights to Berlin yesterday. It would cost me 900 euro to fly from either cork or Shannon airport for the two of us. Also it would be a 13 hour + travel time
So even with the diesel prices up and the parking it’s cheaper and a lot faster to fly from Dublin .
There should be way more flights from cork and Shannon airport to more destinations.
Is there many domestic flights in Ireland?
I live in Shannon all my life and have yet to fly out of there.
Wasn’t there a guy on here the other day saying his flight from knock was changed to Dublin without consulting him?
Might have something to do with the DAA trying to kill off Shannon and form a monopoly. But the government seemed happy to sit back and let that happen.
3 airports? I thought it’s only Cork and Shannon
Shannon only tends to have flights to the UK, US and then the typical holiday destinations like Spain and Portugal. I flew from Shannon to Berlin some years ago and it was great, wish they didn’t cancel it. And how I’d love if Shannon flew to either Belgium or the Netherlands – any airport there would be fantastic!
Seems to be only direct flights to ,
Alicante
London
Frankfurt
Faro
Dublin
Close two out of that 3 and put the money into the expansion of Dublin Airport. Country of 4.8m don’t need that many airports.
“Driving past three airports?”. So they are going from Cork Airport, up past Kerry Airport and Shannon to get to Dublin. Efficient!
This subreddit last year was largely in favour of airports being entirely shut despite it having a negligible impact on preventing Omicron and transmission rates.
Airlines accordingly yanked routes from the regional airports since there were no bums on seats.
It’s ultimately Cabinets fault as they called for those covid measures but we shouldn’t have some sort of revisionism where people forget about the policy points they wanted without thinking of the consequences
Never realised how many people from outside the area fly from Dublin until this whole mess erupted…
I live 5 minutes from Shannon airport. I have a girlfriend in the Netherlands and if I want to see her the transport to Dublin literally costs more than the flight. €28 for the express bus to the airport, €20 for the flight itself. Fucking ridiculous
Nothing worse than getting on a bus at 1am in cork to catch a 8am flight from Dublin,,it ruins the first day of the trip because I’m absolutely knackered by the time I get to my destination,,I hate Dublin airport with a passion
In Fairness we don’t really need another main airport in the country. Dublin is large enough to accommodate the needs of the country and having multiple airports of similar capacity would be too expensive, lead to less flights in a centralised location and have higher emissions
I avoid Dublin airport where at all possible since I live in Munster. Even before the current issues, I’ve always found the transit from parked car to bum on plane to be way less stressful in Cork. The single biggest disadvantage for Cork is the risk of fog but its quite rare to see flights cancelled for that.
Knock airport and Derry airport have FUCK all choice. Derry only offer flights to Manchester, when the population of Liverpool is near half of Northern Ireland lol.
I live a 50min drive from Shannon airport, 1hr drive from Cork airport, and I STILL end up having to fly from Dublin airport whenever I travel.
Anywhere I want to go, doesn’t fly from Shannon or Cork. Would love it if they did, it would save having to spend the bones of 3 hrs driving up to Dublin, and the same again after my trip away.
There is solution to this (esp considering that airlines will not have that level of connections from other airports as they are far too small for it); build a proper rail network. It was proposed almost 2 decades ago. Let me check what came of it. Oh wait!
Annnnnnnnnddddd I will walk 500 miles
I think the easy(/ier) fix would be to focus on upgrading transit and roads on the Cork/Galway corridor (namely the Limerick/Cork stretch) and have one main airport that serves those cities.
Shannon, Cork and even Kerry airports all try and serve the same region, and you end up with each airport fighting for scraps. You’d be far better to focus most all that traffic through one spot, and make that the hub for the main population centres out west.
Imo Shannon with better connections would be my vote, as from there you’re within an hour’s drive to Galway, Limerick, and anywhere in Claire, plus Cork and spots like Killarney/Tralee/Tipp/Cashel would all be just over an hour away.
Flew from Cork last week and it was so handy not a bit of stress, Waterford Airport is meant to be reopening but who knows what flights they’ll actually get
Lads if you’re flying to the UK and don’t know about these dirt cheap connections from Knock…
[https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/cheap-flights/?from=NOC&to=MAN&out-from-date=2022-06-16&out-to-date=2022-06-30&budget=150](https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/cheap-flights/?from=NOC&to=MAN&out-from-date=2022-06-16&out-to-date=2022-06-30&budget=150)
I have no words how much I hate going from Cork to fucking Dublin to take a flight to anywhere I need to. I either fly out to London to catch a connection for which I need to wait 5 hours in the airport, or I sit my ass on a bus with my 1y.o. daughter and wife for 3 hours. going from Bandon, Co. Cork to Bucharest takes 12 fucking hours. disgusting, outrageous, absolute disregard for public needs… heh, there are words actually. wait. imagine how fun it is to travel with a kid for 12 hours in 4 different types of transport, just to get to your destination.
Is the elephant in the room not that there’s probably too many airports down that end of the country?
One big airport in the Southwest would be a far better counterweight to Dublin than Cork, Shannon and Farranfore all vying for the same customer base?
Cork is probably being mismanaged by DAA, I accept that. But even if managed well, it’ll never pull in the same airlines and routes as Dublin when it has a catchment area of Cork and maybe south Tipp, Waterford, and realistically Farranfore and Shannon are nibbling away at parts of those as well.
Tbf there is just not alot of the flights people want in other airports…..altho the trip on the train to Dublin and across from hueston to the airport can be a mare….and in some cases linger than a connection flight
Shannon’s lack of options is horrendous. Sick of flying out of Dublin.
Knock is so handy for anyone in the west/northwest shame its limited on where you can fly too..
Was booking a flight, did some research, wanted to fly from cork… 300eur return, checked Dublin… 100eur.
Not like I didn’t try, if you want us to go to the nearest airport then you gotta charge the same price. I know that’s ignorant but damn I ain’t turning my nose up at 200eur savings.
> Mr Henry […] stated there is a mistaken belief that if you throw more managers at a problem it will get solved. He said: “That is not how it works, it will just create more noise.”
Haha, he’s 100% right! I wish more managers realized this.
Flew from shannon to america last week and i can honestly say it was such a pleasant experience. Only complaint was having too much time, took a grand total of 10 mins to get through security and US preclearance. Will be a long time before I try fly from Dublin again.
German here, i was in febraury in Shannon.
Flying via Dublin, because the connection Frankfurt – Shannon takes between 9-15h, vs 2h to dublin plus 2h car ride.
Didnt know that Dublin Airport is such a mess while booking, Thank to everyone in this Sub, I was on time on the Airport to get the flight home.
I’d love to be able to fly from Shannon or Knock. Unfortunately I mostly need to go to Germany and there are no flights from Shannon. Knock’s offering is Cologne which is the wrong part of the country for me 🙁
Dubliners: “What do you mean ‘outside’ Dublin?”
My closest airport is Belfast international… But it’s so shit I fly from Dublin when I can
Flying to California in October, will be first time I’ve flown from Shannon Airport! Just have to figure out how to get to Shannon 😂
When I come over from England we fly Gatwick to knock, lovely little airport and there is a supermacs just down the road
What I would give for Galway airport to be useable
The fact when I use Dublin it works out cheaper sometimes to fly Kerry to Dublin and connect than go from Cork or Shannon is another issue especially with transatlantic flights.
The reason airlines love Dublin is because it’s a hub airport. There’s interchange and code sharing so people can get to destinations all over Europe. USA pre clearance makes Dublin even more appealing