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Norwegian adds 150,000 Gatwick-US summer seats
Phil Davies
phil.davies@travelweekly.co.uk
Norwegian is adding 150,000 seats on transatlantic routes from Gatwick this summer.
Ten additional weekly flights
will operate across five routes – Los Angeles, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Oakland and Boston – from March 25. The low-cost airline is also starting new routes from Gatwick to the US, with a daily service to Chicago launching on March 25 and a four-times-a-week service to Austin from March 27. Chief commercial officer Thomas Ramdahl said: “The UK continues to be the centre of our long-haul growth and this year will be our busiest yet at Gatwick with increased frequency and new routes to the US as we continue to grow the number of great-value flights to the States.”
Norwegian’s new capacity on its five existing Gatwick links: l Los Angeles: 11 weekly flights – up from seven a week – with additional flights on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Prices start at £175 one-way
Ryanair to axe base at Glasgow with loss of 20 winter routes
Ryanair is to slash its network from Glasgow airport next winter, reducing the number of routes from 23 to three. The surviving routes are Dublin, Krakow and Wroclaw. However, the carrier will
add 11 winter routes from Edinburgh, to Berlin, Derry, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Lisbon, Memmingen (Germany), Riga, Seville, Sofia, Stockholm Skavsta and Tallinn, taking its total to 45 destinations from the Scottish capital. Ryanair’s summer schedule
from Glasgow will operate as planned, with 23 routes to destinations such as Alicante, Gran Canaria and Malaga. The airline will continue to
SERVICES: Norwegian is adding flights on five routes, including Orlando
l Boston: seven weekly flights – up from four a week – with prices starting at £155 one-way.
l Oakland (San Francisco): six weekly flights – up from five a week – with a new Wednesday link. Prices start at £165 one-way. l Fort Lauderdale: three weekly
flights – up from two a week – with a new Friday service. Prices start at £165 one-way.
l Orlando: four weekly flights – up from three a week – with a second Saturday service. Prices start at £185 one-way.
norwegian.com/uk
operate from Glasgow Prestwick with eight winter routes, to Alicante, Faro, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Malaga, Malta, Rzeszow and Tenerife South. Chief commercial officer
David O’Brien said: “Ryanair regrets these cuts in the weaker Glasgow market where efforts to stimulate low-fares demand are severely hampered by the continuing burden of APD.” He said 300 jobs were likely to
go with the axing of Glasgow as a base but that “around 700 jobs” would be created at Edinburgh.
ryanair.com
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