Norwegian’s formula for success and history in US air route
AVIATION history was made at Cork Airport yesterday afternoon with the airport’s first ever regularly scheduled transatlantic service.
Norwegian D81821 to Boston will operate three times a week linking the south to Greater Boston, Rhode Island and New England.
On board the flight was Ciara Judge (19) from Kinsale, Co Cork who was the 2013 winner of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition
Ciara, listed as one of the 25 most influential teens in Time for the year 2014, says she travels to the States regularly and is delighted to have a direct transatlantic route.
She said: “I go over and back to America a lot. I worked in MIT for the past two summers so that’s where I am headed first to visit my friends and then I am off to New York and then over to the West Coast in California.”
“It makes such a difference for me to be able to fly transatlantic from Cork. Travelling from Dublin or London adds so much to the travel time.”
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, said the flight represented a massive milestone fifty years in the making for Cork Airport.