Norwegian focuses on mid-size US cities for new Atlantic services
Norwegian is planning to open up transatlantic services from several mid-sized US cities that do not have European flights, the airline’s CE said Feb 20. Bjorn Kjos said that the airline’s planned Airbus A321neoLR long-range variants would give it the capability to serve medium-sized US airports. They would also allow the carrier to open up new routes from Scandinavia to India and “a large part of Asia.” He did not think that there would be passenger reluctance to fly long-haul on single-aisle aircraft: “We fly from Scandinavia to Dubai today and that’s not a problem,” he said, pointing out that a flight to India would be only about 90 minutes longer. Kjos confirmed rumours that its 2 new bases in the US would be located in Providence, Rhode Island, and Stewart International, New York State. <br/>
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Norwegian focuses on mid-size US cities for new Atlantic services
Norwegian is planning to open up transatlantic services from several mid-sized US cities that do not have European flights, the airline’s CE said Feb 20. Bjorn Kjos said that the airline’s planned Airbus A321neoLR long-range variants would give it the capability to serve medium-sized US airports. They would also allow the carrier to open up new routes from Scandinavia to India and “a large part of Asia.” He did not think that there would be passenger reluctance to fly long-haul on single-aisle aircraft: “We fly from Scandinavia to Dubai today and that’s not a problem,” he said, pointing out that a flight to India would be only about 90 minutes longer. Kjos confirmed rumours that its 2 new bases in the US would be located in Providence, Rhode Island, and Stewart International, New York State. <br/>
