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Aer Lingus are currently offering some excellent flight deals from Cork Airport. You can fly from Cork Airport to

• Amsterdam
• Paris
• Rennes

And just pay taxes and charges!

Flights must be used between the 3rd of June and the 30th of September*

*Cork – Rennes offer is only available until the 15th of August

These flights may be difficult to book during peak period such as bank holidays

The same sale is also being offered at Dublin Airport to the following routes

• Amsterdam
• Brussels
• Dusseldorf
• Frankfurt
• Paris

Search for a flight today and grab a summer bargain!

Cork Airport is often overlooked as a landing point by visitors from the UK who will most likely choose Dublin Airport as their entry point to Ireland.  Cork is an exceptional place to visit and offers a great insight into the real Ireland.

There are plenty of cheap flights from the UK to Cork Airport. If you coming to Cork from London you can grab a flight from Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. Elsewhere in the South you can fly from Bristol, Southampton, Plymouth and Newquay to Cork Airport.

There are direct flights to Cork from Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham and Newcastle. In Scotland you can fly from Edinburgh while in Wales you can fly from Cardiff.

The main airlines operating out of Cork Airport to the UK are Aer Arann, Aer Lingus and Ryanair. Some other airlines worth checking out are jet2.com and Bmibaby.

The average flight time between Cork and the UK is less than an hour.

Here at Cork Airport Car Hire we are all about finding the best value deal for our customers however those with deeper pocket (much much deeper) may be interested in hiring a Bugatti Veyron for 15k a day.

Holders Prestige and Performance Car Hire in Reading have already rented the car twice this year. The retail cost of the vehicle is eight hundred and ten thousand pounds. It can go from 0 to 60 in three seconds with a top speed of 254 mile per hour. A one hundred thousand pound deposit is required when renting the car.

If you have a 3 day weekend coming you can hire the car for a mere forty five thousand or why not make a week of it and get the car for a snip at seventy thousand.

Only twenty models of this car were made. It has an 8 litre engine which requires ten radiators so it remains cool. A Spokesman Eesa Mander stated that the Bugatti Veyron was the best car in the world and worthy of its price tag. It offers the best performance and speed of any car in the world.

A popular trip for those who hire the car is to travel in style from the UK across Europe to Monaco.

The owner of the car allows it to be rented when it is not in use.

Cork Airport is located eight kilometres form Cork city in the South West of Ireland. The airport has grown rapidly over the years now rivaling Shannon Airport as Ireland’s 2nd main airport with Dublin still the busiest. The airport consists of two terminals with the most recent one being opened in 2006.

The airport catered for over three million passengers in 2007. Aer Lingus and Ryanair are responsible for many of the flights at Cork Airport. You will find all the car hire desks in the arrivals hall at Cork Airport.

We have arrangements with many top car hire suppliers at Cork Airport. Remember to search for a cheap cork airport car hire quote with our car hire cost compare booking engine before your scheduled arrival/departure date.

There are of course other transport options from Cork Airport including a bus service which runs every forty minutes as well as taxi services located outside the main entrance.

If you plan on leaving your car at Cork Airport then you will need somewhere to park. There are 4000 spaces available for parking at the airport. The pay area uses an automatic card system. There is also a car park for those simply dropping people off.

All the usual airport amenities can be found at Cork Airport including banks, bars, shops and so on. The Airport caters well for those with disabilities with plenty of ramps and elevators.

Cork is a vibrant exciting city with much to see and do. The surrounding countryside is quite stunning and certainly merits exploration in your Cork car hire.

Ryanair has come under scrutiny for imposing extra wheelchair charges. It is believed that Ryanair could be gaining as much as one million euro a year from the charge. All money from these charges should be passed on to the Dublin Airport Authority.

In July the DAA brought in a 33 cent fee for all departing passengers. An EU directive was put in place so all passengers would share the cost for disabled services. Ryanair is however charging a 50 cent levy.

Shannon and Cork Airport passengers are also been charged a 50 cent levy in spite of the DAA set cost of 45 cent. Passengers at Cork Airport are paying fifteen euro in taxes and charges that it is claimed Ryanair do not have to pay according to the Evening Herald.

Ryanair flights make up forty percent of the European low cost flights market. Despite growing passenger numbers they are expected to announce a loss in profits this year. This is thought to be due to rising fuel costs.

You can be sure there are no hidden charges with our Cork Airport car hire service.

The DAA (Dublin Airport Authority) has predicted a drop of between three and four percent in passenger numbers for the coming year at Cork Airport, Dublin Airport and Shannon Airport.

Passenger numbers at all three airports have dropped in the last three months. There was a big drop in numbers at Shannon Airport in 2008 due to the withdrawal of the Aer Lingus Heathrow service. DAA are reporting a likely drop in traffic in 2008 in comparison to the previous year once all figures are in.

An internal review is set to place to analyze the effects lower passenger numbers may have in the coming year. The DAA say the planned finish date for terminal 2 at Dublin Airport will not be affected. Despite the current drop in passenger numbers, the DAA still believe the future to be bright for the airline industry.

If you plan on flying to Cork Airport and need a rental car then search for a cheap Cork Airport car hire quote.

A new trend seems to be emerging in Ireland this year. Rather than buying cars, Irish companies are choosing to rent.

Car sales are down a massive sixty four percent on this time last year however rental car numbers have risen by twelve percent. In the first five days of the New Year, 9390 new vehicles were registered in comparison to 26029 last year.

Merlin Motor Group has reported a twenty percent rise on what they initially forecast for June to December last year. In January this year, Merlin has seen a twelve percent rise.  Companies are now entering into short term rental agreements rather than buying new cars.

Damien Keogh of Merlin believes companies are being careful with finances at the moment. He said many are looking to enter into short term agreements as they wait to see how things will work out in the coming year.
 
Cars can be hired for a monthly fee which is quite an attractive option for many companies at present who do not want to get tied to long contracts.

The DAA (Dublin Airport Authority) plans to save another twenty million euro in 2009 on top of the fifteen million which has already been scheduled to be cut. The cuts have been deemed necessary due to the projected decrease in passenger numbers in the next two years.

Vincent Wall of the DAA has yet to confirm that the cuts will include redundancies however it is widely believed to be the case. He refused to go into detail on how the cost cutting measures would be implemented without first having meetings with union reps.

Wall also stated that plans for a 2nd runway at Dublin Airport have been put on hold for the time being. Currently the DAA employs two thousand seven hundred staff spread over three airports, Cork, Shannon and Dublin

Pay rates have already been frozen for top DAA employees with voluntary redundancies now expected.

A lot of mornings I wake up needing a strong coffee in order to fuel myself but I was surprised to read recently that I may soon be able to use coffee to fuel my car.

Research at the University of Nevada – Reno has shown that it is possible to get oil from old coffee grounds. The biofuel could be a cheap alternative and there is potential to produce many million of gallons per year.

Mano Misra spoke of coming across the idea by accident. Having left a cup of coffee out over night he noticed an oil build up around the edges of the cup. Misra then did some tests on coffee grounds and found it to contain between ten and fifteen percent oil. He was then able to covert the oil to biodiesel. Starbucks then provided lots of leftover coffee grounds to be used for further research.

The procedure is not particularly demanding energy wise so the biodiesel could be made for roughly one dollar per gallon. Believe it or not the fuel actually smells like coffee! So perhaps in a few years time you could be driving around in a Cork Airport car hire smelling of coffee.

The coffee grounds produce a more stable fuel than previous efforts involving corn and soy. It is also green friendly with much lower carbon dioxide emissions.

A man recently sold a car he had hired because he was short of cash. Chun Lau hired the car from Caversham Vehicle Hire in Ardler Road, Reading.

Lau said he did not intend to sell the car when he first hired it however financial difficulties meant he ended up selling the car at a car wash for £2,600. The car was a Mitsubishi Colt which was actually worth about £7,000.

Lau was charged in court with one count of theft. The forty nine year old man was also found to be holding cannabis and cocaine which he explained in court was to help improve intimate relations with his wife.

The vehicle was hired initially for a short time before Lau extended the deal.

Hmmmm…How exactly did he think this plan might work???