Discussion/complaints about the [un]availability of routes/flights from Cork or any other airport (never mind anecdotes about some incident at a grocery checkout or road users) seem, to me, like complete non sequiturs to the subject matter of this thread...You have a choice in Dublin. You can use Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Cityjet and can fly into any London airport. Great! Dublin airport provides the greatest choice at the expense of the rest of the airports in Ireland.
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The Cityjet service from Cork to London died, probably due to loss of support not too long after the service was launched. Airlines are fickle and it would not surprise me that a service can cease merely on "compensation" customer complaints. (I know you are not seeking compensation). Cityjet could probably gain more profit of providing service between London and elsewhere other than Dublin. But, they don't. Cherish the service, keep it, we need them more than they need us.
Have a look at flights from/to Cork. You'll notice perhaps two holiday flights per week serving Cork. Ten years ago there were several and outside of June, July, August now there are none. You can get a holiday flight to Lanzarote and Palma from Cork. Not a great choice. You see, Dublin Airport Authority owns Cork airport and won't allow any decent competition.
I still feel that you would be well within your rights to claim compensation
I went through, bringing my pint with me.
This is the line from this story that really jumps out at me. How far did you get with your pint?
....I had just taken the first sip when I noticed that it was actually my flight which was boarding. So I went to the gate and asked if I could bring my pint and she said yes....
Brendan
But was it that bad ? The flight was cancelled for something (I presume) out of their control. They can't just dump people off the next plane and put the others on. These things happen. Brendan hasn't expanded on the 'they knew the night before at 10pm' source. Even if they did know they probably needed to wait till the morning to see what can be done. I'm amazed no-one has quoted the usual 'it was not knowing what was going on that was the worst. The staff just ignored us.'. Eh just maybe the staff didn't know either.Very sorry to read about these negative experiences with Cityjet, as they've traditionally been very good for service imho.
Without getting bogged down on this, are you saying he knew the night before but still turned up the following morning or was it a case that he just sounded authoritative and surmised all this infoSo one of the disrupted passengers gave me the information that they knew the night before.
Flew into LCY using CityJet a quite a lot over the last few years. Stopped using the 06:40 altogether because I don't think it was on time ever out of half a dozen or so flights, which means 30+ mins delay on arrival.It departed at 7.40 - an hour late
The 7.30 departed at 7.36 - so, more or less on time.
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