Cork achieves passenger record for 2008

Cork Airport set a new record in 2008 with 3.25m passengers using the facility. The figure represents a 2.5% increase over 2007 and brought an additional 80,000 passengers through Cork during the year.

London traffic grew 4% to 927,000 with provincial UK airport traffic growing 26% to 669,000. Continental European passenger numbers were static over 2007 at 869,000.

Domestic traffic suffered a 10% decline to 443,00 passengers during the year.