Airport bid to bypass US flights ban

ishmael whale

I don’t know what the technicalities of how the stopover can be circumvented in this way, but it would certainly be interesting if Cork Airport manages to successfully put a package together.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1362527&issue_id=12236

“Airport bid to bypass US flights ban
CORK Airport is hoping to side-step strict controls that oblige scheduled flights on North American air routes to land in either Dublin or Shannon with a charter service from Boston and New York. The airport has been negotiating with a US aviation investor in a bid to establish a charter service in and out of the city. Under the terms of the strict Irish-North American bilateral agreement, Cork is effectively excluded from transatlantic services and any changes to the existing agreement are not expected before next year. ….”

dmeehan

that article mentions that the previous attempt for a weekely service to New York was stopped "because a suitable aircraft could not be found"

i thought it was lack of demand?? (if its in the paper it *MUST* be true)

DubTony

ishmael whale wrote:

I don’t know what the technicalities of how the stopover can be circumvented in this way, but it would certainly be interesting if Cork Airport manages to successfully put a package together.

I think I read somewhere that Aer Lingus has already done this by calling the Dublin-Orlando flight a charter?

Tony

BuffyBot

I think I read somewhere that Aer Lingus has already done this by calling the Dublin-Orlando flight a charter?

Yeah, I believe that's how they got around the restrictions.