All flights from Dublin to US east coast cancelled

All flights from Dublin Airport to Washington, Philadelphia and New York have been cancelled.

Dublin Airport Authority said yesterday that all four airlines operating transatlantic flights from Dublin had cancelled.

Airlines were still deciding on whether flights to Boston should be also be cancelled, it said. A spokesman for Shannon Airport said this morning’s United Airlines 8 o’clock flight to Newark in New York was cancelled.

Heathrow Airport has cancelled 84 flights to the US east coast.

Passengers are asked to check the status of their flight online.