Cork Airport (ORK)
New routes and frequency possibilities and why these routes would work
| UK | |
| Southampton | Leeds Bradford |
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| Europe | |
| Brussels | Frankfurt |
| Milan | Basel |
| Zurich | Madrid |
| Copenhagen | Dusseldorf |
| Stuttgart | Stockholm |
| Hamburg | Vienna |
| Lyon | Billund |
| Helsinki | Hannover |
| Budapest | |
| Trans Atlantic | |
| New York | San Francisco |
| Los Angeles | Boston |
| Washington | Halifax |
| Orlando | |
Other Major reasons to serve this airport
A beautiful city and its beautiful people - including Miss Cork. And if you think Guinness is the best Irish stout then you definitely haven’t done your network planning homework.
- Cork Airport is the southern gateway for the Republic of Ireland accounting for 3.3 million passengers to/from the Republic of Ireland’s second largest city and airport in 2008. Cork Airport serves the country’s southern commercial city of half a million people and a city region of over 1.1 million population along with providing access to the majority of the country’s southern population base of 1.6 million potential customers. A significant element of the country’s economic activity outside of Dublin is located along the southern seaboard easily accessed through Cork Airport.
- Cork, 2005 European City of Culture, has become an extremely popular city break destination for European travellers with our visitor numbers growing each year for the past 16 years. In 2007 we saw a record number of visitors to the city region, the second most popular tourist destination after our capital city Dublin. The Cork city region has also proved to be an extremely popular choice for large multinational businesses with many opening their European headquarters here. Ireland’s favourable corporate tax rate and our highly educated young work force, the youngest in the EU, are just some of the reasons which attract foreign direct investment to Cork. Key Industry sectors such as ICT, pharmaceuticals, bio/pharma and financial services have chosen to come to Cork, resulting in significant business travel to London, UK provincial cities and continental Europe. Open skies has created the opportunity and appetite for direct transatlantic services to and from Cork International Airport.
Cork: encapsulating Ireland – old and new.
- Cork Airport offers an attractive and generous new Route Support Scheme. In sharing the risks of start-up operations with airlines during the initial phases, Cork Airport encourages airlines to commence operations on new routes earlier than they might otherwise have done. Cork Airport offers low airport charges for new routes to destinations within Europe in order to encourage airlines to commence operations where there is adequate capacity available for viable, sustainable and profitable routes. Please view the Marketing tab for detailed information on the Route Support Scheme.
- Cork has been named as one of Lonely Planet’s Top Ten Must See Cities. The Lonely Planet has included Cork in its list of the ‘Best in Travel 2010′.
Marketing and other support
Cork Airport Route Support Scheme for Qualifying Short-Haul Destinations 2009
Need some support? Cork Airport’s generous five year schemes for supporting start-up services was recently extended to resumed services.
The route support will be offered as discounts on qualifying airport charges at Cork Airport used to start new routes from Cork to qualifying short-haul destinations in regions where Cork Airport considers that services are not currently developed, for example: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Hungry, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden. This list is non exhaustive. Each route/location will be assessed on a number of objective criteria inter alia:
- The destinations targeted display sufficient numbers to suggest that Cork Airport could gain interest from operators. There is potential for further frequency growth and a competitive entry.
- Securing the destination improves the network reach at Cork Airport.
- An operator has either ceased flying to the destination or the destination has no service. If the destination has a service, the level of service is at or below 2 flights a week calculated over a 12-month period.
- Irish trade and tourism links are showing growth to the targeted destination.
Airport charges do not include additional charges which may be introduced by Cork Airport to comply with new or amended national or European Legislation, charges introduced by the Commission for Aviation Regulation, or charges relating to separate services offered by Cork Airport, for example: Passengers with Reduced Mobility Charge, Self Service Kiosk Charge, Security Charge, Check-in Desk Rental Charges or any environmental related charge.
- After the five-year period, all airport charges will be charged at the standard rates current at the time of operation, as published by Cork Airport.
| Year | Discounts on Airport Charges for qualifying short-haul routes |
| 1 | 100% for the 12 months following start-up |
| 2 | 80% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 3 | 60% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 4 | 40% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 5 | 20% for the subsequent 12 months |
- Marketing Support is also available for new routes and services. The route proposal is reviewed and based on the outcome of this review three levels of support are available as outlined below.
| Bands | Marketing Support |
| Band 1 | €20,000 - €34,999 |
| Band 2 | €35,000 - €59,000 |
| Band 3 | €60,000 - €100,000 |
Cork Airport Route Support Scheme for Qualifying Long-Haul Destinations 2009
Cork Airport continues to assist in the development of new routes which has supported and encouraged passenger traffic growth over the last 15 years, especially in the formative years of route start-up. In addition, significant sums will be provided in the form of Marketing Support to help operators establish their presence in the new emerging market.
The route support will be offered as discounts on qualifying airport charges at Cork Airport. Airport charges do not include additional charges which may be introduced by Cork Airport to comply with new or amended national or European Legislation, charges introduced by the Commission for Aviation Regulation, or charges relating to separate services offered by Cork Airport, for example: Passengers with Reduced Mobility Charge, Self Service Kiosk Charge, Security Charge, Check-in Desk Rental Charges or any environmental related charge.
- After the five-year period, all airport charges will be charged at the standard rates current at the time of operation, as published by Cork Airport.
| Year | Discount on Airport Charges for qualifying long-haul routes |
| 1 | 100% for the 12 months following start-up |
| 2 | 90% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 3 | 75% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 4 | 50% for the subsequent 12 months |
| 5 | 25% for the subsequent 12 months |
- Marketing Support is also available for new routes and services. The route proposal is reviewed and based on the outcome of this review three levels of support are available as outlined below.
| Bands | Year 1 | Year 2 |
| Band 1 | €150,000 - €199,999 | Up to €49,999 |
| Band 2 | €200,000 - €299,999 | €50,000 - €149,999 |
| Band 3 | €300,000 & Over | €150,000 & Over |
We also have extensive market research on passenger traffic at Cork airport detailing full demographic of passenger traffic which includes fare data, booking channels, booking periods and onward connecting data.
Tourism Ireland can also support a new route or service in the local country or region.
For full details on our marketing support programs please go to:
http://www.corkairport.com/business/airport_charges.html
Catchment Area
Cork’s catchment area is not just the people who live there, but the people all over Europe and the rest of the world who want to visit Ireland’s second city.
Over 480,000 people live in Cork City and County. The catchment area for Cork extends to the surrounding counties also which amounts to approximitly 1.6million potential passengers. Cork ranks second nationwide in Ireland in terms of passenger volume. Its location as the gateway to the south of Ireland offers a significant strategic advantage – flying times to the rest of Europe are shorter than from other airport hubs further north in the country. Cork airport also has excellent access options from the north, east and west. Within a one hour commute there is nearly half a million people with this growing to 1.6 million two hours out.
Cork Airport carries out extensive market research which provides a detailed analysis of the type of passengers using the airport. In 2008 nearly 2,000 departing passengers will be surveyed covering topics such as residency, nationaity, purpose of journey, booking channels, booking periods, lenght of stay, group size, social class, fares and onward connecting destination. This information is available to our existing airline customers and potential new airlines looking at the South of Ireland market.
| Cork Airport Passenger Profile 2008 | |
| Age | |
| Under 25 | 15% |
| 25 – 49 years | 66% |
| 50 + Years | 20% |
| Social Class | |
| AB | 36% |
| C1 | 40% |
| C2DE | 22% |
| F1/F2 | 1% |
| Purpose of Journey | |
| Business | 23% |
| VFR | 17% |
| Holiday | 41% |
| Other | 19% |
| Residency | |
| Ireland | 63% |
| Great Britian | 22% |
| Europe | 11% |
| North America | 2% |
| Other County | 2% |
| Lenght of Stay | |
| Day Return | 8% |
| Over Night | 5% |
| 2 – 3 Nights | 30% |
| 4 – 7 Nights | 36% |
| 8 – 14 Nights | 13% |
| More than 2 weeks | 7% |
| Booking Channel | |
| Airline | 8% |
| Travel Agent | 7% |
| Someone Else | 5% |
| Internet | 76% |
| When Booking Made | |
| Day Before | 3% |
| 2 – 7 Days Before | 14% |
| 8 – 14 Days Before | 15% |
| 15 – 31 Days Before | 26% |
| Over 1 Month | 40% |
The Apple of Cork’s eye: Apple's European Operations Headquarters in Cork. The campus hosts a range of divisions including European telesales, European Apple Store Support, manufacturing, AppleCare, European technical support, finance, operations, information services and technology, and human resources.
Under-served freight opportunities and other economic impact factors
Please contact route development contact for further information.
Geography
- Transport Links: Cork Airport is located 8 kilometres form the centre of Cork with excellent access options from the north, east and west and is +/- 1 hour from Killarney, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. Cork has a modern road network with a recently completed motorway ring road, as well as a river tunnel linking the north and south of the city. ORK is well severed by public transport with two bus operators running over 100 connections a day between the airport, city centre shops, hotels, hostels and B&B’s. A taxi rank is also located directly outside the arrivals doors on the forecourt. Kent railway station is situated only 5minutes walk from the bus terminal in Cork City with connections to the local suburban and inter city rail network.
Infrastructure & Operations:
- New Passenger Terminal Opened August 2006
- Terminal Size: 28,500 m2 Floor Area
- Passenger Capacity: 3+ million
- Operational Hours: 24 Hours
- Check-in Desks: 30
- Apron: 18 Parking Stands
- Runways:
- Heading 17/35, 2133m (6,998ft), 063/R/C/W/T, ICAO Cat. 2, ILS
- Heading 07/25, 1310m (4,297ft), 55/R/C/W/U, ICAO Cat. 1, ILS
Vital statistics
- In 2008, Passenger numbers travelling through Cork Airport grew by 80,000 to reach a record 3.25 million, a 2.5% increase over 2007. London traffic grew by 4% to 927,000 passengers, while UK Provincial traffic grew by an impressive 26% to 669,000 passengers by the end of the year. Passenger volumes to and from continental Europe on scheduled services stayed at similar levels to 2007 at 869,000 passengers. A further 342,000 passengers flew to various sun, ski and pilgrimage destinations on charter flights during the year.
- 2007 witnessed the first full year of operations at the new Cork Airport terminal with a record 3.2 million passengers availing of an increased number of flight options from the southern gateway. 2007 also proved to be the 15th consecutive year for passenger growth to and from Cork Airport. Eleven airlines accommodated 2.8 million passengers on 42 scheduled routes over the course of the year with a further 0.4 million passengers travelling on charter flights.
Financials
Airport Charges: http://www.corkairport.com/business/airport_charges.html
