Airline abandons plan for early Heathrow flight to Cork

AER LINGUS will now not introduce an early morning flight from Heathrow to Cork after it rowed back on plans to move its most attractive landing slots to Belfast.

Yesterday, the airline admitted that the proposed 6.40am flight from Heathrow to Cork in 2008 will not go ahead.

The route, confirmed by the airline last Friday, would only have been available if it went ahead and axed the 7.30am departure from Cork.