✈ Aer Lingus Airbus A320 Landing Cork Airport LHR-ORK

A beautiful approach from the south into Cork Airport after a short flight from London Heathrow.
Airline: Aer Lingus (EI)
Route: London Heathrow (LHR) - Cork (ORK)
Aircraft: Airbus A320-214
Registration: EI-DEC
Flight: EI715
Seat: 19F
A great flight with Aer Lingus as always, polite crew, a relaxed atmosphere and an on time arrival.

[@riazm.i8110]

Did anybody notice the plane shadow in circular rainbow at 0:48.. spectacular

[@pomerau]

I flew out of Cork aged 11 in 1970, and watched a few relatives including a sister fly out / in. I don't think I had window views out or back. It was a lovely terminal at the time. 3 sided with a bar and viewing area on the upper floor, with only one or two jets (737-200's?) right in the centre of the apron below. I left the City 7 years later, for Dublin then London. Trying to visualise the area. I built houses not far from there (kinda) with my father when I left school at fifteen. I saw on YT yesterday they have a new runway there since last year. Yeh, it looks nice from the air, and it was a scenic area to grow up and go for weekend spins around the coast. Nice video.

[@frankiemulryan7068]

Excellent video and great scenic approach love Are Lingus and their smooth landings

[@MetroMark]

Nice one

[@rolandwernhart2052]

An maith, an maith! I love the beautiful Irish landscape, great video!

[@lionheart2211]

takes my breath away more than flying over any country ..

[@martinryan3318]

One of the most scenic approaches in Western Europe. Weather permitting…

[@geraldwalsh6489]

Brilliant video....nice comments at the bottom. I would say the very same about British Airways from experience and i am Irish!!

[@richiehoyt8487]

I do wish more videos of flights that come in over the city were uploaded, but I freely admit to being infected with a highly parochial case of "I can see my house from here - itis"! I can totally understand why international visitors would (if anything) be more enamoured with the usual descent over the Old Head of Kinsale. This particular approach here, as far as I can tell, over the dreary dormitory town of Carrigaline, feels like a wasted opportunity, by just a few miles, to capture a vista of Cork's magnificent harbour, the equal of any in the World! As someone who's not especially cogniscent in the field, certain World cities do seem to have notably photogenic approach paths - Hong Kong's old Kai Tek, _both_ New York's main airports, La Guardia and John F. Kennedy, Rio de Janeiro (coming in over the Atlantic - from the other side, it might just as well be Glasgow!), San Francisco... one assumes these flightpaths are chosen for those reasons most expedient from a purely geographical/aviation related standpoint, but i can't help wondering - IS it ever the case that flightpaths into international destinations are chosen with a view to pandering to tourism?

[@barrymadden4312]

It would be wonderful if Aer Lingus added trans Atlantic routes into Cork. They fly the A320 &321 into Shannon from JFK NY. Why not cork as well?

[@carroll_aviation]

Very nice approach alright! I always fly 19 ( row ) best window alignment 👍🏻👍🏻

[@KevinAndrew350]

Definitely! The fact it's free to select at check in is great too.

[@carroll_aviation]

Kevin Andrew yeah! I always pre book just in case 😉