Norwegian Air’s exit leads to passenger drop at Stewart Airport near NYC
New York Stewart International —60 miles north of New York City—plans to team up with a French company in a bid to lure back the international flights that fuelled a now-fading passenger boom at the Hudson Valley facility. Passenger numbers at the Newburgh, NY, airport grew 150% between 2016 and 2018 after Norwegian Air Shuttle started offering discount flights to the UK and the Republic of Ireland. But the carrier halted operations at Stewart after the Boeing 737 MAX airliner—which it used for the international flights—was grounded over safety concerns. For 2019 through June, the most recent publicly available data, passenger numbers at Stewart were down 9.4% compared to the same period last year. <br/>
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Norwegian Air’s exit leads to passenger drop at Stewart Airport near NYC
New York Stewart International —60 miles north of New York City—plans to team up with a French company in a bid to lure back the international flights that fuelled a now-fading passenger boom at the Hudson Valley facility. Passenger numbers at the Newburgh, NY, airport grew 150% between 2016 and 2018 after Norwegian Air Shuttle started offering discount flights to the UK and the Republic of Ireland. But the carrier halted operations at Stewart after the Boeing 737 MAX airliner—which it used for the international flights—was grounded over safety concerns. For 2019 through June, the most recent publicly available data, passenger numbers at Stewart were down 9.4% compared to the same period last year. <br/>
