Cork airport launches summer schedule with four new routes

Four new routes are included in Cork Airport’s 2025 summer schedule, which features 2.75m seats on sale on over 50 routes, operated by nine airlines.

The schedule was launched by Tom Randles, incoming president of the Irish Travel Agents Association and managing director of Barter’s Travelnet, at an event in Cork city.

The new summer routes include flights to Bilbao and Bordeaux, both operated by Aer Lingus. Flights to Bilbao will start later this week, and the Cork — Bordeaux service will begin on May 15.

There will also be a service to Corfu, operated by TUI and starting on May 9. A new service to Izmir, which is the airport’s first scheduled connection with Türkiye, and will also run from May 31, and will be operated by SunExpress.

Ryanair will operate a total of 33 routes from Cork Airport this summer, including additional frequencies on 14 routes, including Alicante, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Gdansk, Girona, Liverpool, Malaga, Manchester, Palma de Mallorca, Paris Beauvais, Reus, Seville and Valencia. In total, Ryanair’s passenger traffic this summer is expected to grow by an estimated 21% compared with last summer.

Connectivity from some of Europe’s largest airlines will continue, with flights from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa and Air France, who returned to Cork Airport earlier this year. The French airline will operate twice-daily services on Monday and Saturday to Paris Charles de Gaulle later in the summer.

“We are working to constantly build and expand our choice of routes from Cork and we have four additional, fantastic new choices this year. We are already working for even more choice for summer 2026,” head of aviation business development and communications Tara Finn said.

The airport’s managing director, Niall MacCarthy, added:“Whilst we are well-known in Munster, we are increasingly seeing passengers from south Leinster and the midlands, discovering Cork Airport.

“If you are one of those, who hasn’t flown from Cork Airport before, we strongly encourage you to give it a try!”