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.