Brendan Griffin, minister of state at the Irish Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, said Lauda’s new Vienna-Shannon route could be directly attributed to the fresh funding.
Griffin said the cash would sustain existing routes and deliver new ones by making access via air and sea more viable. “These are vital entrance points to our country,” he said.
It follows Norwegian’s decision in August to axe all six of its Irish transatlantic routes by mid-September just two years after they were launched in July 2017.
