Celebrities literally take private flights for 20 minutes, a few Irish people flying across Ireland will do no harm
If that’s what customers want, good.
I saw recently that the French are banning internal flights if there is a train service available. Interesting contrast between a country that has a working rail system and one that doesn’t.
The train form Cork to Dublin is probably more convenient,
I mean like you’d have to get to the airport go through security/ check in then wait around a bit quick enough flight to be fair. then your in Dublin airport which is ages away from anything and then you have to get a bus / taxi into the city somewhere. Would probably be a few hours by the time your in the city centre.
At least the train brings you to Heuston and you can hop on the Luas.
Cork-Dublin flights died with the motorway, with the crash delivering the coup de grace. You can drive Cork Dublin now in about 2:30 (Dunkettle to Red Cow) if you don’t stop. Bus takes you 3, train normally does it in about 2:30. Hard for a plane to compete with that, given modern security and the respective locations of the airports.
Where these short hop flights have been operating elsewhere in Europe they work as expensive shuttle services, connecting regional airports to larger hubs for long distance travel, often dependent on business travellers willing to pay a premium for the convenience. But those operate generally into much bigger hubs, like Paris CDG.
One question. Why?
The train would be quicker, city to city, when everything is factored in.
Well, unless the air fare was only a tenner or something crazy like that!
A cork to Belfast flight route would be better. Very awkward getting up Belfast using public transportation
Hardly anyone would use this point to point. It’s for feeding transfers.
If I was flying to New York for example and living in Cork the choice was driving to Dublin or getting a connecting flight from Cork – I’d be taking the connection every time.
I remember it well! 30min before flight in the airport, 30min in the air and out the gap it was great! A Celtic tiger beaut
The big regional airports need to have more flights to main destinations. How many of the people flying out of Dublin this weekend and beyond, live nearer to the airports in Cork, Shannon or Knock? The best way to take pressure off Dublin Airport and calls for it to be expanded, is to develop the other airports. I live in Dublin, so I am not looking for a more convenient trip to a local airport. The point goes wider, across a huge range of things. Developing the regions more would be good for the regions and for Dublin.
With new efficient narrow bodies we could have Cork connecting to much more useful and interesting places. Really under-utilised airport.
I used to take those flights pre motorway….god send. Were cheap too. Also used to take them for onward connections out of Cork as did vast majority of people as the road to Shannon for transatlantic (still a joke) was insane with no Limerick bypass, etc. Cork is a pretty good airport for European flights now but wasn’t half as good in the past.
I even did Sligo Dublin Cork as a three hour round trip a few times saving six hours of driving at the same or lower cost as the petrol. Flying isnt always more expensive due to fuel costs per head with the right aircraft. The engines on the Aer Arran Shorts360’s sucked fumes.
Sligo Dublin was only €63 round trip at one stage ….35 minute trip versus up to five hours back on a bad Friday evening trip down. I rem calculating the emissions of the flight versus a car parking driving going down …was better to fly!
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Celebrities literally take private flights for 20 minutes, a few Irish people flying across Ireland will do no harm
If that’s what customers want, good.
I saw recently that the French are banning internal flights if there is a train service available. Interesting contrast between a country that has a working rail system and one that doesn’t.
The train form Cork to Dublin is probably more convenient,
I mean like you’d have to get to the airport go through security/ check in then wait around a bit quick enough flight to be fair. then your in Dublin airport which is ages away from anything and then you have to get a bus / taxi into the city somewhere. Would probably be a few hours by the time your in the city centre.
At least the train brings you to Heuston and you can hop on the Luas.
Cork-Dublin flights died with the motorway, with the crash delivering the coup de grace. You can drive Cork Dublin now in about 2:30 (Dunkettle to Red Cow) if you don’t stop. Bus takes you 3, train normally does it in about 2:30. Hard for a plane to compete with that, given modern security and the respective locations of the airports.
Where these short hop flights have been operating elsewhere in Europe they work as expensive shuttle services, connecting regional airports to larger hubs for long distance travel, often dependent on business travellers willing to pay a premium for the convenience. But those operate generally into much bigger hubs, like Paris CDG.
One question. Why?
The train would be quicker, city to city, when everything is factored in.
Well, unless the air fare was only a tenner or something crazy like that!
A cork to Belfast flight route would be better. Very awkward getting up Belfast using public transportation
Hardly anyone would use this point to point. It’s for feeding transfers.
If I was flying to New York for example and living in Cork the choice was driving to Dublin or getting a connecting flight from Cork – I’d be taking the connection every time.
I remember it well! 30min before flight in the airport, 30min in the air and out the gap it was great! A Celtic tiger beaut
The big regional airports need to have more flights to main destinations. How many of the people flying out of Dublin this weekend and beyond, live nearer to the airports in Cork, Shannon or Knock? The best way to take pressure off Dublin Airport and calls for it to be expanded, is to develop the other airports. I live in Dublin, so I am not looking for a more convenient trip to a local airport. The point goes wider, across a huge range of things. Developing the regions more would be good for the regions and for Dublin.
With new efficient narrow bodies we could have Cork connecting to much more useful and interesting places. Really under-utilised airport.
I used to take those flights pre motorway….god send. Were cheap too. Also used to take them for onward connections out of Cork as did vast majority of people as the road to Shannon for transatlantic (still a joke) was insane with no Limerick bypass, etc. Cork is a pretty good airport for European flights now but wasn’t half as good in the past.
I even did Sligo Dublin Cork as a three hour round trip a few times saving six hours of driving at the same or lower cost as the petrol. Flying isnt always more expensive due to fuel costs per head with the right aircraft. The engines on the Aer Arran Shorts360’s sucked fumes.
Sligo Dublin was only €63 round trip at one stage ….35 minute trip versus up to five hours back on a bad Friday evening trip down. I rem calculating the emissions of the flight versus a car parking driving going down …was better to fly!