Top 5 Reasons to use Cork Airport over Dublin

26th Nov 2013

Cork has been left behind in the recent boost to Dublin and Shannon airports with additional routes added to both. This has forced Corkonians to take long bus journeys at ungodly hours to and from other airports. 

The Dublin Transport Minister might be doing secret deals to keep Cork down but there are still some undeniably advantages of using Cork over Dublin airport. 

Cork airport was designed so passengers could have a puck around before boarding their flight

 1. No Panic
The airlines and airport authorities will never officially acknowledge it – understandably of course - but you can arrive at Cork Airport half an hour before your flight with your printed boarding pass and carry-on baggage and you’ll probably still make it.

With the characteristic casualness of Corkonians when it comes to punctuality this is a bit hit with passengers - and we love it! Anyone who has been caught out by the unexpected bedlam at Dublin Airport departures and missed a flight revels in the simplicity of Cork Airport.
 

Some Cork people leave it a little too late to board a flight.

2. Runway Rambling
The time between the wheels touching the runway in Cork and getting into a cab can be as low as five minutes whereas in Dublin Airport we spent about fifteen minutes alone arse-ing around runway back roads before finally pulling up at the half a billion euro Terminal 2. It takes at least half an hour to get from runway to roadway at Dublin Airport – six times longer than Cork.

3. Stairway to Heaven
In Dublin they want you to leave the plane on one of those unnecessary ‘air bridges’ so everyone has to get off via the front door causing more delays if you’re down the back (or especially if you put your luggage in a bay a bit behind your seat). In Cork there’s none of that rubbish – two mobile stair cases are quickly lobbed up against both doors, you scoot down to the tarmac and you’re in the terminal building within seconds.

Chaos at Dublin Airport. None of that in Cork.

4. Double Dublin Trouble
If you land at Terminal 2 in Dublin and hop on a bus going to Cork, not only does it spend the first ten minutes of the journey winding its way over to Terminal 1 to pick up more passengers but it then ploughs into the chaos of Dublin city centre traffic to collect more souls, weary of The Pale, that are destined for the People’s Republic. The buses are undoubtedly cheap but if you get to Cork within four and a half hours of landing at Dublin Airport you’re doing exceptionally well.  
 

DUBLIN's Leo Varadkar is delighted with additional Ryanair routes added to DUBLIN airport

 5. Wink and Wave
In Dublin passengers are herded into an anarchic sheep pen to have their passports checked. In free open meadows of Cork Airport you’ll more than likely know the fella checking passports anyway  - and more importantly he knows you. That famous Cork airport wink-and-wave at Passport Control is always a joy at the end of a long journey and it’s all part of the subtle Leeside welcome.  

Passport Control at Cork is always a bitta'craic