Cullen accused of ‘selling out on Shannon’

A NEW deal on transatlantic flights signed in New York yesterday by the Irish and US governments has received a mixed reaction.

Sat, 12 Nov, 2005 - 00:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

But tourism groups welcomed the move.

Under the terms of the agreement made with US Secretary of Transport, Norman Mineta, airlines will be obliged to schedule only one Shannon transatlantic flight in every four operated out of Dublin from November 2006.

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