Cork Airport expects 68,500 passengers over June weekend, 60,000 to use Shannon
Cork Airport will welcome more than 68,500 passenger over the June Bank Holiday weekend, up 20% compared with 2024.
The start of the post-primary school holidays is pushing up demand, and a host of summer services are taking off this weekend. A new twice-weekly service to İzmir in Turkey, operated by SunExpress, starts on Saturday May 31 and runs until September while Ryanair summer services to Carcassonne, La Rochelle, Rhodes and Zadar all resume over the next week.
The busiest day of the coming weekend will be Sunday, June 1.
In the year-to-date, Cork Airport has seen passenger traffic climb 14% versus the same period (January – May) last year. Over the coming days, there are particularly high load factors inbound on services from the UK, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.
'The year is flying by, and we are yet again ready for another busy bank holiday weekend influx of passengers," said Cork Airport deputy managing director Roy O'Driscoll.
While Ireland's southern gateway looks towards another record-breaking year, in the midwest, Shannon Airport expects 60,000 passengers to travel over the June bank holiday weekend, up 9% on the same period in 2024.
Services will include the recently returned Delta and United Airlines seasonal flights to New York-JFK and Chicago, with over 325,000 seats now available across five transatlantic routes until September, including Aer Lingus' year-round daily flight to Boston.
Other services include a new twice-weekly service to the Portuguese island of Madeira, while a new service to Palma runs weekly and provides an additional 6,800 seats from the airport across the summer season.
"A 9% increase on this time last year shows that more and more people throughout the country are discovering the ease and enjoyment that comes from flying out of Shannon Airport," said Shannon Airport chief executive Mary Considine.
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