Norwegian Air launches new flights as Ryanair boss brands airline 'a dog'
As speculation grows about the future of Norwegian, the airline has announced a dramatic expansion of long-haul flights from Gatwick for the coming winter. Norwegian launches a new twice-weekly link from the Sussex airport to Tampa from Oct 31 2018. It will compete direct with British Airways’ daily nonstop service from Gatwick. The airline will also increase services to daily on the routes from Gatwick to Boston, Fort Lauderdale and Buenos Aires – again, competing with BA. But links to Austin and Seattle have been dropped for the winter, and services to Chicago and Oakland are being reduced. IAG has taken a 4.61% stake in Norwegian. But its approaches to take over the airline have been rebuffed. CE of IAG, Willie Walsh, says: “The company clearly is in a situation where its financial position is very poor.” <br/>
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Norwegian Air launches new flights as Ryanair boss brands airline 'a dog'
As speculation grows about the future of Norwegian, the airline has announced a dramatic expansion of long-haul flights from Gatwick for the coming winter. Norwegian launches a new twice-weekly link from the Sussex airport to Tampa from Oct 31 2018. It will compete direct with British Airways’ daily nonstop service from Gatwick. The airline will also increase services to daily on the routes from Gatwick to Boston, Fort Lauderdale and Buenos Aires – again, competing with BA. But links to Austin and Seattle have been dropped for the winter, and services to Chicago and Oakland are being reduced. IAG has taken a 4.61% stake in Norwegian. But its approaches to take over the airline have been rebuffed. CE of IAG, Willie Walsh, says: “The company clearly is in a situation where its financial position is very poor.” <br/>
