Greater choice from Cork Airport this summer

More popular destinations available than ever before

With over 50 routes to choose from at Cork Airport for those looking to travel from county this summer have an unbeatable choice of destinations. Whether it’s business or pleasure, city break or sun holiday, Cork Airport has the biggest and best selection of destinations of any airport outside of Dublin and always look forward to welcoming passengers from the region.

Munster’s favourite airport will welcome at least nine new routes this summer, with a further three in the near future. New routes include Düsseldorf with Aer Lingus, London City, Nantes and La Rochelle with CityJet, Madrid with Iberia Express, Cardiff with Flybe, Southampton and Leeds Bradford with Aer Lingus Regional as well as Menorca with Lee Travel and Stein Travel.

Norwegian Air will commence its new Cork – Boston service as soon as it receives its foreign carrier permit from the US Department of Transportation. The airline is also committed to launching a Cork – Barcelona service as well as New York service in 2017.

For anyone looking to fly to the UK, Cork Airport has 14 destinations available including London City Airport, right in the heart of London. Sun seekers from the county have a choice of 11 destinations in Spain, including firm favourites of Canary Islands, Menorca, Alicante, Malaga and Barcelona. France is also very well served from Cork Airport with six popular tourist spots. Anyone planning to travel to the Euros in June to support Ireland can plan their trip with ease via the airport.

Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director at Cork Airport said: “Cork Airport has cemented its position as the busiest and best connected international airport in the country after Dublin, serving over two million passengers each year. There is a greater number of destinations and more seats available from Cork Airport than any other airport in Munster so we are unrivalled in terms of choice whether passengers are traveling for business or pleasure.

“Hundreds of thousands of passengers from Cork use the airport each year for their travel needs and we’re expecting that this will increase again this year as we continue to add new routes. In particular, we have a fantastic choice of summer holiday destinations for families, singletons or couples from our neighbouring county. And as well as unbeatable choice, we have great value car parking at Cork Airport, costing less than €5 a day when booked online at corkairport.com,” he added.