'You will know the background of those flights from America, it was fabulous when we had them but we weren’t able to sustain them'
Northern Ireland airports can “take advantage” of a cap on passengers at Dublin Airport to bring more direct flights to Northern Ireland, MLAs have been told.
He said: “We are very well connected with the UK…where we are not so strong is in links into some of the core cities in the populous areas of Europe. That is where we would like to see those routes developed.” Alliance Party MLA David Honeyford asked if the tourism bodies were focusing on European connections.
She said: “We need to be realistic about what Northern Ireland can attract and what we can sustain in terms of those flights into America. We do hope to take advantage of the Dublin Airport cap, getting more direct flights into Northern Ireland.
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