Ryanair unveiled its Cork Summer 2025 schedule with 33 routes, including 1 new route to Fuerteventura, as well as increased frequencies on 14 other popular routes to/from Cork, like Alicante, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Gdansk, Girona, Liverpool, London, Malaga, Manchester, Mallorca, Paris, Reus, Seville, and Valencia. Ryanair has also added extra seats from Cork to Birmingham for the Cheltenham Festival (11-14 March) and to Rome for the highly anticipated Six Nations Rugby match between Ireland and Italy on Sat, 15 March.
This significant Ryanair traffic growth at Cork (+21%) is underpinned by Ryanair’s 4 Cork-based aircraft – including 3 737-8200 MAX. While Ryanair continues to invest and grow at regional Irish airports (+65% v pre-Covid), the airline said that regional airport growth is being unfairly limited by the Governments’ Regional Airports Programme (RAP), which penalises regional airports for exceeding 1 million passengers per annum. Ryanair has called on the new Government to lift this traffic cap on regional airports to 3m passengers in line with EU State Aid rules and allow Ireland’s regional airports to grow and flourish.
Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Officer, Dara Brady, said: “As Ireland and Europe’s No.1 airline, we are pleased to announce Ryanair’s Summer 2025 schedule for Cork, including our new Fuerteventura route. We have also added extra flights on another 8 routes to/from Shannon for Summer 2025, including Alicante, Edinburgh, Faro, Kaunas, Krakow, Malaga, Porto, and Reus, giving our customers in the Munster and South-Leinster regions even more choice and regular connections at the lowest fares in Europe.”
Tara Finn, Head of Aviation Business Development & Communications at Cork Airport, added: “With 33 routes on offer this summer, Ryanair will provide direct services to a fantastic range of destinations across the UK and Europe – with something to suit all tastes. Whether it’s new adventures on a European city break in Paris, Valencia, Brussels or Gdansk; or soaking up the glorious Mediterranean summer sunshine in Alghero, Rhodes, Zadar or Faro, now is the perfect time to book your summer getaway. In addition, it is brilliant to have year-round connectivity to Fuerteventura, and increased frequencies on no less than 14 of our most popular routes. On behalf of the team at Cork Airport, I would like to thank Ryanair for their continued commitment to growth at Ireland’s fastest-growing airport.”
