Bernie Sanders’ claims that Cork-Boston route could cost jobs dismissed as 'groundless'

US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ claims that proposed Cork-US flights could cost thousands of jobs have been dismissed as “groundless”.

Cork Airport director Niall MacCarthy accused Mr Sanders of “trotting out the same old arguments” which have already been found by US authorities to be invalid.

“He is not taking into account the findings of the US department of transportation (DoT) which has found there is no legal basis to refuse a foreign carrier permit to Norwegian Air International (NAI) to operate these flights,” said Mr MacCarthy.