3 To 4 Years Of Very Hard Work Needed For Cork Airport To Win Back Routes Lost Since Onset Of Pandemic
That's according to Kevin Cullinane, the Head of Communications at Cork Airport
Last evening's Government announcement of their plans to reopen the Irish economy and society saw confirmation that international travel is to return from the 19th of July.
Speaking to RedFM News, Kevin Cullinane says that it will be 2022 before passenger numbers get close to pre-Covid levels:
"It means a gradual restoration of international travel, along the safety lines that the government have outlined, and we'll see a very slow, gradual recovery starting this year, but it will be 2022, in earnest, before passenger numbers will start to go back to the levels that we would have seen in 2019. That's probably going to take another three/four years of very hard work to win back those routes that have been lost."
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