{"id":274489,"date":"2026-01-08T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274489\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:01:09","slug":"ryanair-to-scrap-two-major-cork-airport-routes-one-moving-to-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274489\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair to scrap two major Cork Airport routes &#8211; one moving to Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed &#8211; last flights in March<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1_downloadjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Cork Airport\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Cork Airport<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">The Budget Airline is removing two popular destinations from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/cork-airport\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cork AirportLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Cork Airport<\/a> early this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ryanair has confirmed to Cork Beo that their year-round services to Pozna\u0144 and Gdansk in Poland will be removed from Cork&#8217;s schedule. Flights for both cities currently run twice weekly, and will continue to do so until their final services at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/all-about\/munster\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"MunsterLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Munster<\/a>&#8216;s regional airport on the 26th and 28th of March respectively. This move comes as a likely knock-on effect from the company&#8217;s decision to shift one of the company&#8217;s four aircraft in Cork to Shannon for the winter season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Speaking on the move last July, Michael O\u2019Leary said he has hopes of bringing a fourth aircraft back to Cork this summer: &#8220;Shannon Airport has lower costs than Cork. I think we\u2019ll be able to put the fourth aircraft back into Cork next summer. Both Shannon Airport and Cork Airport have grown strongly in the last year or two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Both locations were known for their scenic architecture and made for lovely long-weekend getaway spots. The loss of these routes is especially bad news for some of Cork&#8217;s large Polish community &#8211; an estimated 25,00 people across the city and county &#8211; who regularly use them to fly home and visit <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/culture\/family-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"familyLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">family<\/a>. There is a silver lining however, as flights to Pozna\u0144 are scheduled to start in Shannon Airport on March 31st &#8211; just 5 days after the routes&#8217; last day in Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Those looking to fly straight to Gd\u00e1nsk however will have to book their tickets up in Dublin, where there are currently 5 services a week to the Polish city. This update comes just weeks after confirmation that another Cork Airport route &#8211; <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/aer-lingus-axes-direct-flights-33142906\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Aer Lingus&#039;s service to DubrovnikLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Aer Lingus&#8217;s service to Dubrovnik<\/a> &#8211; were also axed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It&#8217;s not all bad news though &#8211; Aer Lingus has also recently brought in a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/aer-lingus-axes-direct-flights-33142906\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cork-Geneva serviceLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Cork-Geneva service<\/a>, and extended its route between <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/news\/local-news\/first-route-prague-route-takes-32733919\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cork and PragueLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Cork and Prague<\/a> from a winter-only service to a year-round service. Aer Lingus&#8217; 2026 Summer schedule also includes popular services to M\u00e1laga, Faro, Tenerife, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao and Bordeaux, along with daily services to London Heathrow and Aer Lingus Regional services to Bristol and Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sign up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkbeo.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=df8d6f09-ae48-4c50-92e5-a495d5d24ef0&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">here for our daily newsletter<\/a> and get breaking news and top stories from Cork Beo direct to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confirmed &#8211; last flights in MarchCork Airport The Budget Airline is removing two popular destinations from Cork Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,36563,93295,18,8845,19,17,5599,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-274489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cork-airport","10":"tag-county-cork","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-holidays","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-munster","16":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115860791959989062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}