You’d barely land a 737 on a good day on Cork with all the fog
A backup runway for the space shuttle in case it gets into difficulty as well, you would want your head examined flying a shuttle into Cork.
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The serious pilots won’t go near Cork
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More people want to fly into cork guys. Forcing people to fly into Shannon has failed for years. Won’t work now
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Michael O’Leary should be running the judicial branch of government
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I flew out of gatwick there last Friday, there was at least 300 planes parked, I started crying with emotion. BA, easyjet etc etc The economic reality of it really hit me hard, then coming into Shannon, there must have been 70 or 80 planes parked, a good few of the aer lingus squadron and Lufthansa, aer canada, etc it was truly horrendous
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I was up in the loop just now chatting to a family heading away on holidays. They couldn’t get over how much was closed in the airport.
This day last year the place would be absolutely hopping. It’s terrible
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Any US military in Shannon.
There will be a wave of mental illness this winter after no sun holidays. SAD rates will be off the scale.
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Zero
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I’m convinced that you had to work in a place like an Airport or live centrally in a city to truly get the scale of the shutdowns and economic hit. The charm of seeing Georgian Streets empty wore off quite quickly when you saw the sure scale of the business shut downs and considered all the ancillary businesses suffering through it.
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Well the airport had been a devastating example of it. Place went from being thronged to being like an empty warehouse.
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it was worse in the West. What I saw in Connemara has scarred me.
Meanwhile the supermarkets were doing trade equivalent to a Christmas week for about a month
They won’t survive without a bailout.
aer lingus are gone
From 17:10 this evening until the US flights (we used to call them the first wave, now they are the only wave) arrive tomorrow at 5 am, there are just 6 flights landing in T2 this evening. Heathrow has 90 on board, Bourgas has 84, Munich 45 and Lanzarote 41 (figures not available yet for Alicante or Rome). Today, flights landed from Edinburgh with 21 passengers on board, Brussels with 18 and Glasgow with 12.
I’m not sure how much longer Aer Lingus can sustain this, or how much longer Terminal 2 in DUB will remain open. There is not one passenger in either arrivals or departures here right now. None of the shops or cafes are open except the small loop section past security. Only Cafe Nero outside opens for a bit early in the day, but they are long since closed.
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( not aviation related )
How are Ferry numbers stacking up since the Pandemic arrived in Ireland?