Cork Airport boss: ‘New York flights will happen’

A Cork flight to New York will happen sooner rather than later, the managing director of Cork Airport has said. 

Niall MacCarthy was speaking as airport leaders from around Europe gathered in Cork for a conference to discuss the fallout of Brexit for regional airports across the continent.

Director general of conference organiser, Airports Continental International Europe, Olivier Jankovec said the “eyes of the regional aviation world” were on Cork ahead of the launch of flights by Norwegian Air to Providence in Rhode Island in July. Mr Jankovec said that as the threat of Brexit loomed, regional airports were looking to see how Cork would perform.