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Ryanair Celebrates

R TEN YEARS BASED AT CORK AIRPORT
yanair recently celebrated its 10th anniversary of its base at Cork Airport. Ryanair
operates 19 direct routes from Ireland’s second busiest airport, providing
excellent connectivity to destinations across the UK and Europe.

Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director at Cork Airport said: “We at Cork Cork Airport is the international gateway to the south of Ireland
Airport have had a strong working relationship with Ryanair since the and is uniquely positioned at the start of the Wild Atlantic Way and
airline operated its first flight from the airport in 1987. In that time, Ireland’s Ancient East. Welcoming over 6,000 passengers a day, and
Ryanair has carried nearly 11 million passengers to routes right across more than 11,000 passengers a day in peak season, it is the
Europe”. country’s second largest and busiest airport after Dublin. More than
2.1 million passengers travel through the airport each year, flying to
“We’re delighted to mark this milestone with Ryanair and we look top destinations across the UK and throughout continental Europe.
forward to celebrating many more over the coming years.” Cork Airport was voted best in the world for passenger satisfaction in
the ACI Regional Airport Survey in summer 2013.
Ryanair’s Sales and Marketing Executive, Lisa Buckley said: “Ryanair
is delighted to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its base at Cork
Airport”. Ryanair started operations at Cork airport 28 years ago with
a route to London Luton and today offers customers in the South a
choice of 19 routes to top European destinations including Barcelona,
Gdansk and London Stansted.

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