US urged to make decision on Cork Airport flights

The European Commission has urged the US authorities to make a decision soon on the stalled licence application which is threatening the launch of the first transatlantic flights out of Cork.

The commission has also confirmed that it told US authorities over a year ago that they were in breach of the EU-US Open Skies air transport agreement by not granting a foreign carrier permit to Norwegian Airline International (NAI) — the Irish subsidiary of low-cost airline, Norwegian.

NAI wants to launch a Cork to Boston service in May and a Cork to New York service in 2017.