New routes added to Cork Airport winter schedule

Cork Airport has launched its winter schedule, including 1.4m seats on sale between this November and March 2026 and two new routes.

New flights to Prague and Geneva, both operated by Aer Lingus, will begin soon. The new service to Prague, which will fly twice-weekly on Thursday and Sunday, will start on October 23 while the service to Geneva will fly weekly on Saturday, starting on December 20.

Aer Lingus will also fly to the popular winter sun destinations of Malaga, Lanzarote, and Tenerife and will maintain its four-times daily service to London Heathrow, while Aer Lingus Regional will offer a daily service to Bristol and four-times weekly service to Glasgow.

To cater for the ski holiday season, along with the new Geneva service, Aer Lingus will operate a twice-weekly service to Lyon and a weekly service to Munich. The Munich service returns one month earlier this year and will operate twice weekly during December, on Saturday and Tuesday. Aer Lingus will also operate a weekly service to Salzburg on behalf of Irish ski tour operators.

Ryanair will operate a total of 22 routes from Cork Airport this winter, including city break destinations such as Edinburgh, Liverpool, Paris, Brussels, Gdansk, Rome, Barcelona, Valencia, and Seville.

It will also fly to Lanzarote, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, and Gran Canaria, along with other popular winter sun destinations on the Iberian peninsula such as Malaga, Alicante, and Faro.

Connectivity with European hub airports will be boosted significantly this winter season with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flying three times per day between Cork and Amsterdam Schiphol, an increase of over 32,000 seats.

Air France will consolidate its year-round operations at Cork with a new three-times weekly service to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

With the increased hub connectivity, passengers can connect to 320 worldwide destinations on the wider Air France-KLM network via Amsterdam and Paris.

Cork Airport’s newest airline partner, SunExpress, will fly a twice-weekly service to Izmir over the Christmas holiday period from December 17 to January 7.

“We’re thrilled to launch our 2025 winter schedule with 1.4m seats on sale between November and March,” said Cork Airport’s head of aviation business development and communications Tara Finn.

“There are some really great additions to this year’s schedule, with new Aer Lingus routes to Prague and Geneva; a new Air France winter service to Paris Charles de Gaulle; a third daily KLM service to Amsterdam, and a Christmas service to Izmir in Türkiye with SunExpress.

“Passenger traffic has grown significantly this past year, and we will continue to work closely with our airline partners to secure more connectivity for Cork Airport for next year and beyond,” she said.

Along with the traditional catchment area and Munster base, an increasing number of passengers are coming from Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, and Laois to fly from Cork Airport, said the airport.

“Increasingly, passengers from Kildare to Kilkenny and other counties outside of our traditional catchment are discovering the ease and friendliness of Cork Airport for family holidays,” said Cork Airport’s managing director Niall MacCarthy.

“With 14% growth year-to-date, I’m confident that more and more passengers from South Leinster will continue to discover the benefits of Cork Airport this winter.”