Cork airport sees 10% increase in engers compared to June 2023

Cork airport outperformed Dublin on a number of key metrics including year-on-year increase, security times and bag return times.
Cork airport sees 10% increase in engers compared to June 2023

Cork airport saw 308,100 engers in the month of June, with new and additional flights proving very popular with holidaymakers.

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

Just over 3.5 million engers went through Cork Airport and Dublin Airport combined, according to daa, the operator of the two airports.

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 engers compared to June 2023, while in Dublin the annual increase was just 3%.

100% of engers 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 engers 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.” 

He continued, “June was very busy at Cork Airport, with over 308,000 engers 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 was considerably higher than last year, with 32% more engers travelling on services between Cork and , aided by the increased capacity on the Air service between Cork and Paris Charles de Gaulle.” 

Mr Jacobs concluded, “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 engers enjoyed a very efficient airport experience with an average of five-minute security queue times across the month.”

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