Transatlantic flights ‘here to stay’ vows boss

The head of the airline which has launched a raft of low-fares transatlantic flights from Ireland — including Cork Airport’s first scheduled direct service to the US — has given a “personal guarantee” that they are “here to stay”.

Tore Jenssen, the chief executive of Dublin-based Norwegian Air International (NAI), was speaking as aviation history was made in Cork on Saturday with the take-off of NAI’s inaugural flight from Cork to TF Green in Providence, 90-minutes south of Boston.

“We have been waiting more than three years for this,” Mr Jenssen said.