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Cork Airport review by Kevin Penfold
14 March 2008 Customer Rating : 
Landside the new terminal is very good, check in desks very organised, and good for snacks and
meals, bank, wcs etc. Although airside is poor regarding food and drink outlets. Nice panoramic
view of runway from departure gates and lounge area.
Cork Airport review by Brian Dromey
27 November 2006 Customer Rating : n/a
The new terminal at Cork is much larger than the old one, but is still
easy to get around. The baggage halls are poor. There are also very few
seating areas in baggage hall. The check-in halls and the departures
areas are much better, and have good views of the ramp area, which is
nice. There is also a much improved selection of eating areas before
security, although it is limited once airside.
Cork Airport review by Alexander Mayhew
12 August 2006
New terminal just opened and looks very european - spacious, good layout
and good sign posting. New terminal only being used for arrivals at the
minute and so departures was through the old terminal which was
unfortunate. On departure, the duty free shop sells books and magazines
but no newspapers, a sign says that newspapers are available for sale
before you go through security but to get to the duty free shop in the
first place you have to pass through security with no one allowed back
out - I hope someone works that one out before the new terminal opens
for departures.
Cork Airport review by Simon Boxall
8 April 2006
An easy airport to get through. Current terminal is very small.
Departure lounge has six gates, but there are not enough seats for all
the passengers of six flights. There were only three flights waiting to
leave when I was there two weeks ago, and already all the seats were
taken, with a large number of people standing. I hate to think what it
would be like in the height of summer when all six gates are taken.
However this should all be remedied when the new larger terminal
building is opened. All the staff were friendly and helpful, and
adequate parking.
Cork Airport review by Alan Wan
21 February 2006
Arrived there for a daytrip from LHR. It was quite a walk across the
tarmac, but this should be sorted when the new terminal is opened. On
departure the eating facilities on landside were adequate for a small
airport. On airside there was pretty much nothing to do. It was
restricted to a very limited bar and the usual duty free shop
Cork Airport review by Nico Nieuwstraten
9 October 2005
With the new automated Boarding Pass terminals the check-in is pretty
speedy which makes the check-in efficient. Restaurant & bar upstairs are
reasonable and deliver good quality food & drink (helpful staff!).
Friendly ground-personnel and no need to run a marathon to reach the
gate makes it a relaxing experience. Once you go though the security and
passport check you seem to arrive in quite a different country
all-together: 'tax-free' is a complete rip-off, prices of salmon are
triple(!) of that in Cork (same trademark and quantity) so duly you
bleed for your families request. A cup of coffee at the bar suffers the
same added-value while seemingly being made out a mixture of
tarmac and dishwater, here the personnel seems to be trained not to
understand any language (I tried 3) and so ignoring my protest (he was
probably rightfully to ashamed to respond). The permanent
wind over the tarmac - Cork airport is on the top of a hill - blows you
right in the direction of your plane. Arriving back is a breeze, after a
good lunch upstairs (I don't like the grub in planes), missing
the bus I queried a cab-driver: € 42 for airport to Cobh so I informed
him it was € 30 the other way around with a Cobh taxi firm, his
response: 'Ah ye see, that's why we don't allow them for pickup
any fares from here', welcome home.
Cork Airport review by Brian Dromey
17 February 2005
In the past Cork was a really handy airport to travel through, but with the current building works
parking, landside and airside facilities are totally overcrowded. The airport is currently growing
at 30% per year, so the 1960's terminal is not capable of handling in excess of 3 million
passengers per year. Hopefully the new terminal will restore the previous ease of use. International links are growing at
a rapid rate, with EI, WW, EZY FR, all adding new flights. All that is lacking is a star alliance
presence, this would help connections, as the airport is currentloy dominated by EI / one world / LHR
for connections.
Cork Airport review by Greg Murphy
5 August 2004
Cork is handy, with a Bus Eireann Coach service every 30 mins into Cork city itself. The city is not
at all far away so if in a group I'd get a taxi. The airport has a very warm feeling at
Christmas time when it welcomes all its lost sons and daughters home. I believe a planned expansion is about to take place? I would like to see more services
between Cork & LHR, not to mention international flights - perhaps all in time. The downside to this
airport has to be its cafes and restaurants- especially airside- its terrible. Instead I find myself
wandering aimlessly over the fragrances until my senses have been somewhat numbed.
After which, I'm
ready to board a plane (usually to STN and its horrific onward connections).
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