Norwegian Launches $178 Fares on Dreamliner from JFK to Bergen

Norwegian Air Shuttle says it began selling $178 one-way tickets for a weekly Bergen, Norway flight to JFK, with service beginning on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner beginning May 9, 2014.

The second largest airline in Scandinavia, Norwegian hope to revolutionize transatlantic travel with cheap fares, and it believes the problem-plagued Dreamliner is the fuel-efficient enough to do it.

The one weekly flight departs JFK on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. local time and arrives in BGO the following day at 10:35 a.m.

Fares for a May 9 to 16 JFK-BGO roundtrip, however, were selling on the Norwegian website today for about $826, including taxes and fees.

The direct JFK-BGO leg was being offered for around $333, and a BGO-Oslo Gardermoen-JFK return cost about $492 -- not the announced introductory fares.

“New York-Bergen has been a long-awaited route and I’m very happy to announce that for the first time in decades, the U.S. and Bergen will get its first direct connection," said Norwegian CEO said CEO Bjørn Kjos. "Norwegian’s routes between Scandinavia and New York have been very well received, and I am looking forward to welcoming even more Americans on board our brand new Dreamliners on our non-stop service to Bergen.”

The flights would run from May 9 through September 27.

Separately, Norwegian, which operates two Dreamliners, announced today that it will purchase two additional planes, 787-9 Dreamliners.