Ryanair has launched its Winter 2023/24 schedule for Cork Airport with 23 routes including five new routes to Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Paris, Seville, and Treviso, and increased frequencies on another 6 winter sun routes to Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Malaga, Rome and Tenerife. Ryanair will base one additional Boeing 737 aircraft at Cork (3 total) for Winter 2023/24 – another $100m investment creating over 30 new high-paid jobs for pilots, cabin crew, and engineers. Ryanair is the largest airline operating at Cork Airport with 23 routes and carrying 2.3m passengers per annum to/from Cork Airport, providing customers in Munster and South-Leinster with main flight choices. The Cork growth (+15% vs. FY23) is not only underpinned by Ryanair’s $300m investment (3 based aircraft) and support of over 90 high-pay crew and engineering jobs but driven by Cork Airport’s long-term commitment to maintain competitive airport charges, providing the cost certainty for airlines, like Ryanair, to invest and grow in the region.
Ryanair has led Europe’s post-Covid recovery throughout Europe operating at 130% pre-Covid levels and through the airline’s continued growth and investment, Cork Airport will fully recover its pre-Covid traffic this year – 2 years sooner than expected. Ryanair’s growing traffic to/from Cork Airport provides Cork and the wider Munster/ South-Leinster regions with invaluable inbound tourism, jobs, and local business support, particularly in the off-peak Winter season.
Commenting in Cork at the launch was Ryanair’s Dara Brady who said, “Ryanair is pleased to provide even more choice and lower fares to our Cork customers/visitors for Winter 23/24, with 23 routes, including five new routes from Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Paris, Seville and Treviso, as well as increased frequencies on another six routes, including popular winter sun and city break destinations like Faro, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Malaga, Rome and Tenerife. To support Ryanair’s biggest-ever Winter schedule to/from Cork, we have added one new aircraft at Cork Airport, bringing our total based aircraft to three – a $300m investment and creating over 30 new high-pay jobs. Ryanair’s continued growth and investment at Cork is a direct result of the cost certainty provided by Cork Airport’s long-term commitment to maintain competitive airport charges. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Cork Airport to further deliver important regional development, connectivity, jobs, and year-round tourism into the Winter 23/24 season.”
Also commenting was the Head of Aviation Business Development at Cork Airport, Tara Finn who said, “Ryanair’s continued commitment to growth at Cork Airport is extremely welcome and this announcement of five new winter routes, along with increased frequencies on six routes is an incredible offering for consumers across the South of Ireland this winter. New winter city break destination such as Paris, Seville, and Barcelona along with winter sun services to Fuerteventura make up an exciting range of winter destinations, all direct from Cork Airport. The presence of Ryanair at Cork Airport today is not a coincidence, as we are delighted to welcome our 2 millionth passenger so far this year. Cork Airport is on track to welcome a total of 2.7m passengers this year and as the most popular airport in the South of Ireland, we look forward to welcoming passengers from across Munster and South Leinster as they jet off on a winter sun or city break from Cork Airport over the coming months.”
