Norwegian Air is Selling Trans-Atlantic Flights From Small U.S. Airports for $65 One Way
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This will be a good test. There's no doubt people love low fares, and Norwegian Air will be using a cost-effective aircraft. But is there enough demand from smaller U.S. airports to sustain flights to Europe?
How much do consumers in smaller markets crave cheap trans-Atlantic flights?
We'll find out by this summer, when European discounter Norwegian Air launches 10 new routes from three smaller U.S. airports — Stewart International Airport in New York's Southern Hudson Valley about 65 miles north of Manhattan, Hartford Bradley International Airport in Central Connecticut, and T.F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. Norwegian will operate all flights with a new single-aisle airplane, the Boeing 737 Max.
Norwegian had been teasing the new service for weeks, but on Thursday morning, it named the routes and released introductory prices. From Stewart International Airport, Norwegian will fly to Dublin and Shannon in Ireland, and Belfast and Edinburgh in the UK, while from Providence it will fly to all those destinations plus Cork, Ireland. From Hartford, Norwegian will serve only Edinburgh.
At 6 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Norwegian put on sale "quite a few thousand" tickets for $65 one way from the three U.S. markets, Lars Sande, Norwegian's senior vice president of sales, said in an
