Cork Airport and Norwegian Air in talks to get US service airborne by summer

Management at Cork Airport hope to have their first transatlantic routes — to Boston and New York — off the ground by summer.

Talks over the weekend between airport bosses and Norwegian Air International (NAI) explored the possibility of fast-tracking the launch of the New York route following the permit breakthrough on Friday night.

Tickets could go on sale by March in the hope that the Boston service at least, and possibly the New York route too, could take off by June.