IRELAND is to gain further routes to and from the United States next year. Continuing a minor boom for US airlines on the North Atlantic, American Airlines is to introduce non-stop services between Shannon and Boston and Dublin to Chicago starting 1 May 2005. American will fly the Boston service with 188-seat Boeing 757s and will serve Dublin ” Chicago with 211-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The airline will operate both routes on a daily basis during the peak summer travel season and five days a week the rest of the year. These new services mark the return of American Airlines to direct scheduled services between the USA and Ireland after a gap of more than 50 years. On both routes the airline will compete with its erstwhile code share Oneworld partner Aer Lingus. American operates up to 40 transatlantic flights a day in each direction between the USA and Europe.
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