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It is beginning to look like there is no going back for Norwegian Air International’s plans to fly from Cork and Shannon to the US. Over the weekend, the FAA cleared the airline, meaning that it now has both a foreign carrier’s permit from the DoT and the FAA. Ticket prices could be as low as E59, although it is unlikely that the airline will sell large numbers of seats at this rate. It is also thought that it will launch a Cork-Boston service first, following this with flights from Shannon, Belfast and possibly Dublin. It could begin New York services next year. Last week Norwegian confirmed that it has chosen Stewart Airport, about 60km north of New York city, as a base. Some reports say that its Boston services will land at TF Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, about 112km south of the Massachusetts city. <br/>

Air India Express has put on hold a plan to fly to Tehran amid renewed tensions between the US and Iran after president Donald Trump imposed fresh sanctions on the Persian Gulf country. Since some of Air India’s plane purchases were funded by the Export-Import Bank of the US, it won’t be able to fly to places where the US govt imposes sanctions, K. Shyamsundar, the airline’s CE, said Tuesday. The carrier may now fly to Bahrain via Doha instead, he said. The US, pursuing a harder line on Iran, slapped penalties on a raft of individuals and companies in response to the country test-firing a ballistic rocket last month. While it isn’t clear if the US will tighten the measures, Iran’s foreign minister Sunday mocked being “put on notice” in a tweet by Trump. <br/>