Flights to eastern US resuming

Flights from Ireland to the east coast of the United States are starting to resume after superstorm Sandy forced flight cancellations…

Flights from Ireland to the east coast of the United States are starting to resume after superstorm Sandy forced flight cancellations over the last two days.

Transatlantic flights from Shannon Airport to New York and from Dublin Airport to Washington, Philadelphia and New York were cancelled as the storm hit the US.

Both Newark Airport in New Jersey and John F Kennedy Airport in New York reopened today for some flights after the storm had forced them to close on Monday.

United Airlines flights linking Dublin with Washington and Newark have been operational since 9am this morning.

Aer Lingus and Delta flights scheduled to arrive in Dublin from New York tomorrow morning are set go ahead, although the Aer Lingus flight due at 5.24am has been cancelled.

At Shannon Airport, today's inbound and outbound United Airlines flights have been cancelled, while Aer Lingus flights to JFK and British Airways transit flights to JFK have resumed.

Passengers who were due to travel on cancelled flights from Shannon have been put up in local accommodation in Limerick and Shannon until services resume.

All flights to Boston are going ahead as scheduled.

All passengers flying to the eastern US are being urged to contact airlines before leaving for airports to check whether their flights are scheduled as normal.