Norse Atlantic launched its first service to southeast Asia on Thursday 2 November, between its Oslo OSL base and Bangkok. The 8,675-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Thursdays and Saturdays departing the Norwegian capital, with its 338-seat 787-9 aircraft. It faces no competition between the two cities. During the peak holiday travel period, Norse Atlantic will increase the […]
November 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Thailand is Europe’s seventh-largest non-stop long-haul country market by seats this winter, behind the US, UAE, China, Canada, India and Brazil. According to Cirium data, there are 1.64 million departing seats, down by a quarter versus W19. Of course, this does not tell the full story or even most of it. A vast number of […]
November 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Norse Atlantic launched its latest transatlantic service on Monday 18 September, between its Oslo OSL base and Miami. The 7,625-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, with its 338-seat 787-9 aircraft. It faces no competition between the two cities. The launch coincides with the carrier’s introduction of 4-weekly flights between London LGW […]
September 21, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic introduced its latest long-haul service on Saturday 2 September by launching limited operations between London LGW and Boston. The 5,285-kilometre service will run 5-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with its 338-seat 787-9 aircraft. Flight Z0750 departs London LGW at 15:00 local time, arriving in Boston at 17:20 local time. The […]
September 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic’s first commercial flight was on 14 June 2022 from Oslo to New York JFK. Between then and May 2023, the long-haul operator transported approximately 512,000 scheduled passengers. Consisting of two units – the original Norwegian entity (IATA code N0) and the UK subsidiary (Z0) – they have 10 Boeing 787s. Five others are […]
July 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Norse Atlantic has launched operations from Rome FCO with a long-haul service to New York JFK on Monday 19 June. The airline is using its 338-seat 787-9 on the 6,885-kilometre service, which will be maintained daily. The route from the Italian capital becomes the airline’s fifth to New York JFK alongside services from Berlin, London LGW, Oslo and Paris CDG. Flight […]
June 23, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Some 47 European airports have non-stop flights to New York JFK and/or Newark this summer. Between them, they have 8.8 million one-way seats for sale, according to Cirium schedules information data. That is 14.0% more than in S22 and 1.3% more than in S19. Of the 47 airports, Paris CDG ranks second while Paris ORY […]
March 30, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Norse Atlantic Airways has launched operations from Paris CDG with a long-haul service to New York JFK on Sunday 26 March. The airline positioned its 787-9 on the 5,850-kilometre service, which will be maintained daily. The route from the French capital becomes the airline’s fourth to New York JFK alongside services from Berlin, London LGW and Oslo. The […]
March 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Departing seat capacity across all airports in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) is expected to grow by just over 10% in the second quarter of this year. Some 900 airports in the region will see departing seat capacity rise from 315.2 million in April to June 2022 to 348.3 million during the same […]
March 23, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
Some 22 European countries have non-stop flights to the US in Q2 (April-June) of this year, according to Cirium schedules information data. Four of these are Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics. They collectively have 402,000 of the 12.1 million one-way seats – just 3%. Denmark ranks 12th out of the 22, Finland […]
February 14, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Fort Lauderdale ended 2021 with 28.1 million passengers, according to the airport’s own statistics. This was 24% lower than 2019, when the Florida airport welcomed a record 36.8 million customers. Some 12 million additional passengers were added between 2014 and 2019 (+49%), the result of huge growth by Allegiant, American, JetBlue, Southwest and Spirit. While […]
December 21, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
As in Europe, the last four weeks have been relatively quiet for new route launches in North America. Basically, if you didn’t introduce your new route before the start of the peak summer travel period, then why would you start one several weeks later. You have to have a pretty good reason to launch a […]
September 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story