Talk:Cork International Airport

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Contents 1 Copyvios 2 Ground transportation 3 Runway 4 Destinations 5 French 6 Busiest Airports 7 "Main European hub" 8 New Terminal 9 Rory Gallagher Airport

[edit] Copyvios

Had to revert a bunch of stuff this morning. Copied wholesale from [1] - Pete C ^✍ 07:35, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ground transportation

The reverting back and forth about whether some or all airports are deemed to have a rail connection is getting annoying. Personally I think the answer is that none do, since Farranfore Station serves the village, not the airport. However, rather than people getting bogged down in it, best to rewrite removing the reference.

As for taxis - as I myself was reminded recently Wikipedia is not a travel guide so the price of taxis is not necessary to include. Dowlingm 18:55, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Runway

Someone has changed 17/35 from asphalt to concrete. I understood it to be asphalt, but am not confident enough in my understanding to change it back. Any ideas? Irlchrism 11:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

changed to asphalt again per Dublin Airport Authority website Dowlingm 16:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

definitely looks like asphalt from the airplane window (i worked at an asphalt mill)

[edit] Destinations

An anonymous editor has changed the destinations at Cork and Waterford airports to include the country of destination beside each. Since the vast majority of such airports are wikied I feel this is excessive and bloats the article. What do others think? Dowlingm 20:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I changed the Cork one - although not the Waterford one. I'm a bit surprised I wasn't automatically ogged in. I used a format I'd seen used at other airports (e.g. Warsaw). The main purpose was to provide separate links to the town served and the airport by including the airport code too. If anyone thinks it's overkill, I won't be grieviously offended if it's removed :-) Irlchrism 15:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I have reverted this back to the standard format, as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports. Thanks/wangi 16:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

On a similar but seperate matter... should we include destinations for charter flights? Ablaze 18:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French

I've created a French stub for the airport. It's basically a traslation of the first paragraph with an onfobox. If anyone wants to take a look and up date, the link is Aéroport international de Cork Irlchrism 10:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Busiest Airports

The official Irish Government authority for Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports is the Dublin Airport Authority. The official website is www.dublinairportauthority.com/media-centre/annual-report/2005. Page 76 of the annual report shows passenger total passenger traffic for 2005 as Dublin 18,450,439, Shannon 3,302,424 and Cork 2,729,906. This means Dublin is 1st, Shannon is 2nd and Cork is 3rd busiest airport in the Republic of Ireland.BIARRITZ 20:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

But as is stated below, the Shannon figure includes passengers who never leave the aircraft. Shannon's figure is lower if these passengers aren't included. Should someone travelling from Dublin to Boston be included in Shannon's figures if they never leave the plane?57.80.136.6 12:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Is cork irelands 2nd or 3rd busiest airport? Shannon article states its the 4th busiest. Belfast international is also listed below as an airport of ireland. Ablaze 11:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

It depends on your definition of Ireland and whether you count transit passengers who don't leave the aircraft at Shannon. Any idea how these should be treated?Irlchrism 09:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to add this statement from the Shannon website to inform further "Well over half a million passengers who travel through Shannon do so as transit passengers, breaking their journey at Shannon while traveling between Europe and North America.".Irlchrism 10:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

You need to use primary sources and reference any claim. Belfast is Northern Ireland, and part of the UK so should not be counted as a Republic of Ireland airport. What is the Irish equivalent of the CAA - do they publish statistics? Because if you don't do this it's original research... Thanks/wangi 10:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The Irish Aviation Authority don't publish statistics in the manner the CAA do. However, the claim can be backed up using data obtained from the airports themselves. On the Cork Airport Website Figures Page, it states that the number who used Cork Airport was in excess of 2.729 million passengers. On the equivalent page for Shannon, we can see that the total number less transit passengers is 2,627,583. Irlchrism 18:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Main European hub"

I realise that Cork is nominally a Ryanair "base" but is it really accurate to say "It acts as a main European hub for both Ryanair and Aer Lingus"? From Cork Ryanair serves only Dublin, Liverpool, Gatwick and Stansted. Cork appears to be by far the smallest of Ryanair's official "bases" in Europe and to call it a "main European hub" for the airline seems a bit of a stretch. Ecozeppelin 10:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

In absence of comments, have deleted reference to "main European hub." Ecozeppelin 10:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Terminal

Just a question, what happened to the old terminal when the new one was opened? Jvlm.123 19:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• It has been mothballed. It is supposed to become the airport offices, but there have been suggestions that it could be reopened as a terminal for Low Cost airlines. A portion of the baggage handling area may be demolished to increase apron space Irlchrism 11:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rory Gallagher Airport

This seems to be associated with a campaign to have the airport's name changed. Is it worth including? Irlchrism 11:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)