Ryanair announces five new routes from Cork airport

Cork Airport has received a boost from Ryanair with the airline announcing the commencement from November of five new routes to Eastern Europe.

Ryanair has announced it will operate five new routes to Eastern Europe from November.
Four of the routes are to the Polish cites of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Krakow. The fifth new destination is to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Hungarian-based carrier WizzAir currently operates similar routes from Cork.
Ryanair's deputy chief executive said he expected the routes to do very well.
He said that since Ireland took part in the European championships in Poland there has been huge interest from Polish people to visit our shores.
He said it is the same effect that happened after Italia 90 when there was a marked increase in the number of Italians visiting Ireland.
Cork Airport, he added would now have two boeing 737s permanently based there.
However, he added that the airport charges at the airport was hindering growth.