Cork airport: passengers, flights and destinations

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Passengers and flights by year

Year	Passengers (000s)	Commercial flights (000s)	Freight (000 tonnes)
2025	3,461.5	23.9	0.0
2024	3,068.4	20.9	0.0
2023	2,798.0	19.8	0.0
2022	2,238.5	16.6	0.0
2021	255.0	3.3	0.8
2020	527.0	6.5	0.0
2019	2,585.5	21.4	0.0
2018	2,387.8	20.4	0.1
2017	2,301.5	19.7	0.0
2016	2,226.2	19.9	0.0
2015	2,065.7	17.9	0.2
2014	2,138.1	19.6	0.7
2013	2,252.6	20.2	0.7
2012	2,333.6	21.5	0.7
2011	2,356.6	22.0	0.8
2010	2,422.9	23.4	0.8
2009	2,767.8	25.6	0.9
2008	3,259.1	33.3	4.0
2007	3,193.7	35.4	5.5
2006	3,023.5	33.3	7.2
2005	2,747.2	33.2	7.0

Peak year: 2025 (3.5 million passengers). Series stitched from CSO tables TAA01 (2005–2012), TAA03 (2013–2019) and TAA06 (2020–2025); where the tables overlap their passenger figures agree to within 0.5%. See how we calculate.

Scheduled vs unscheduled, arrivals vs departures

	Passengers (000s)	Commercial flights (000s)	Share of passengers
Scheduled	3,423.6	23.6	98.9%
Unscheduled	37.9	0.3	1.1%
Arrivals	1,733.6	11.9
Departures	1,727.9	11.9

Where Cork flights go

Rank	Country	Passengers (000s)	Flights (000s)	Share
1	United Kingdom	1,532.7	10.7	44.3%
2	Spain	732.7	4.5	21.2%
3	Portugal	201.5	1.3	5.8%
4	Netherlands	168.6	1.8	4.9%
5	France	149.6	1.3	4.3%
6	Italy	128.2	0.8	3.7%
7	Poland	92.3	0.5	2.7%
8	Belgium	41.1	0.3	1.2%
9	Germany	26.1	0.3	0.8%
10	Croatia	23.8	0.2	0.7%
11	Greece	20.1	0.1	0.6%
12	Turkiye	13.0	0.1	0.4%

Countries with 1,000+ passengers in 2025, arrivals and departures combined. Regional aggregates and the UK's constituent nations are excluded to avoid double counting. Linked countries have their own page.

Monthly passengers, last 24 months

Month	Passengers
2026 June	341,592
2026 May	322,714
2026 April	295,072
2026 March	252,065
2026 February	203,101
2026 January	202,463
2025 December	225,506
2025 November	214,611
2025 October	306,340
2025 September	320,791
2025 August	375,850
2025 July	377,308
2025 June	354,069
2025 May	330,883
2025 April	308,579
2025 March	248,717
2025 February	203,407
2025 January	195,392
2024 December	211,360
2024 November	200,682
2024 October	258,770
2024 September	295,093
2024 August	341,051
2024 July	327,058

CSO table TAM08, up to 2026 June (the most recent months are provisional). Busiest month of 2025: 2025 July (377,308).

Most common aircraft at Cork airport, 2021

Aircraft	Commercial flights (000s)
Boeing 737-800	1.3
Airbus A320	0.8
Embraer 195/ERJ 190-200	0.3
Boeing 767-300	0.2

CSO's aircraft-type table (TAA04) stops at 2021, so this is a pandemic-era snapshot rather than today's fleet. Catch-all "other makes" is excluded.

Source: Central Statistics Office, Aviation Statistics, CC BY 4.0. Passenger and flight figures are published in thousands to one decimal place.