Tuesday, July 10th, 2007. 

With the summer holiday season in full swing, management at Cork Airport has completed a review of passenger figures for June 2007 which show an overall increase of 9.5% compared with the same month last year.

“We’re glad to see the travelling public using the new facilities at Cork Airport in such increased numbers”, said Cork Airport Marketing Manager, Kevin Cullinane. “Our challenge is to continue to offer a quality airport travel experience to the best international standards,” he added.

The 9.5% increase in passenger figures relates to an increase of 27,384 passengers using Cork Airport last month compared with June 2006.

Domestic traffic featured particularly strongly with an impressive 25.3% increase with a total of 45,356 passengers travelling on domestic flights. 

A total of 45,294 passengers travelled from Cork last month to the fifteen UK Provincial destinations served from Cork Airport. This is an increase of 7.4% on the same month last year. 

A total of 78,469 passengers travelled from Cork to the three London airports – Gatwick, Stansted and Heathrow - last month, representing a drop of 16.8% on June 2006.  This decrease is as a direct result of the decrease in capacity on the London routes with the withdrawal of Easyjet from the Irish market.

Growth in European traffic is continuing to surge ahead with significant growth recorded.  June 2007 passenger traffic was up 28% on the same month last year. This represents a total of 45,294 passengers travelling to nineteen European destinations during last month.

European unscheduled traffic totalled 64,300 passengers for the month of June. The majority of passengers, 56,886, flew on sun charter flights to twenty-five destinations.  Sun charter traffic recorded an increase of 11.6% on the same month last year.  Pilgrim passengers to Lourdes reached 6,336 for the month of June, 2.8% ahead of June 2006 figures.

Over 1.4 million passengers have travelled to and from Cork Airport in the year todate, an increase of 4.6% on the first six months of 2006.  Cork Airport currently offers passengers a total of 36 scheduled destinations with nine airlines and a further 20 charter destinations to European sunspots.

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