Over 300k passengers fly at Cork Airport in June

A total of 308,100 passengers went through Cork Airport in June as the busy summer season fully kicked in.

Just over 3.5m passengers went through Cork and Dublin airports combined, according to daa, the airports’ operator.

A total of 1,983 flights left Cork Airport in June, and the busiest day of the month was Friday, June 21.

Cork Airport outperformed Dublin on a number of key metrics, seeing a 10% increase in passengers compared to June 2023, while in Dublin the annual increase was just 3%.

100% of passengers were through security in less than 20 minutes in Cork compared to 96% in Dublin, bag return time was 12 minutes in Cork on average compared to 20 minutes in Dublin, and there were 74% of on-time departures overall in both airports.

According to daa CEO Kenny Jacobs: “June was a big month at both Cork and Dublin airports as we welcomed hundreds of thousands of business and leisure passengers into and out of Ireland.

“Big events such as concerts are now a big draw for tourists into Ireland and we’ve had no shortage of those all-around Ireland over the past month. June was very busy at Cork Airport, with over 308,000 passengers travelling to and from the busiest airport serving the south of Ireland.

“The month saw two new Ryanair summer services starting up to Rhodes and Zadar, with both performing extremely well so far.

“Traffic to and from France was considerably higher than last year, with 32% more passengers travelling on services between Cork and France, aided by the increased capacity on the Air France service between Cork and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Cork Airport is providing a gateway for tourists from mainland Europe to fly into the south of Ireland and I’m delighted that Lufthansa will operate larger A319 aircraft on their Frankfurt service in July.

“Throughout the month, Cork passengers enjoyed a very efficient airport experience with an average of five-minute security queue times across the month.”

Meanwhile, Cork Airport’s duty-free shop has been renamed as part of a rebranding project. The travel retail store, formerly known as The Loop, will now be called Cork Airport Duty Free.

ARI, the daa’s global airport retailing subsidiary, is also rolling out the rebrand at Dublin Airport. The logos for both locations pay homage to the cities themselves.

In Cork’s logo, the C represents the River Lee running through Cork City, the O — Cork’s iconic English Market, the R — The Rebel County and the K — the Old Head Lighthouse of Kinsale.