JFK air link to be suspended

DELTA Air Lines has announced it will stop flying from Edinburgh to New York, one of the Capital's two air links to the city, this autumn.

Daily flights to JFK airport are expected to be stopped in September as part of major cutbacks by the US airline.

The service was only launched in May last year after Delta scrapped its Edinburgh to Atlanta flights the previous autumn.

A spokesman for BAA, which owns Edinburgh airport, said: "We hope this suspension is short-lived and that Delta will reinstate the link once economic conditions improve."