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Norwegian Will Likely Be Landing in Canada This Summer

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Norwegian Will Likely Be Landing in Canada This Summer

If you’ve been tempted to drive all the way to the New York area or Providence to take advantage of insanely cheap fares to Europe with Norwegian, you will be happy to know that the company has applied with Transport Canada to fly to Canada from Europe. Once the Canadian Government deems Norwegian safe, the company will be able to land at any Canadian airport with custom agents (Canada and the European Union have an open skies agreement), from any EU country, including parts of France in the Caribbean.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/busi ... 89251.html

Hat tip Routes: https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/br ... =Norwegian

Norwegian landed in Canada earlier this week.


However, looks like that left customers unhappy.











Toronto is a very small part of Canada
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Don't we have Primera Air coming in May? It's basically the same setup.....
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GateGuardian wrote: Don't we have Primera Air coming in May? It's basically the same setup.....
Primera is being boring with London (Stanstead) to Toronto 3 times a week (albeit on a rather small A321neo, perfect for Stanstead’s shorter runway). That’s only exciting if you have family in Cambridge (although if their flights are cheaper, Stansted has a perfectly acceptable 47 minute rail link to London) .
http://www.stanstedairport.com/getting- ... rom/train/
http://www.businessinsider.com/primera- ... -99-2018-3

Norwegian, on the other hand, has a habit of trying what-are-they-thinking routes like Oslo to Las Vegas and Cork to Providence using the 787 hub buster and the 737 Max.

From what I have read, the Norwegian devision that has applied to land in Canada only has 737s. So I would expect some weird transatlantic routes. I’m hoping for Monkton to Moncton, but thanks to the lack of the $113 UK departure tax in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Belfast to Canada might make more sense.

The 737 is far from ideal on transatlantic routes. Westjet has made it work on St. John’s to Dublin and Halifax to Glasgow (and is trying Halifax to Paris and Halifax to London), but those routes depend on cross subsidized flights from the rest of Canada, not an ideal situation in peek summer travel season.

That said, WOW has remarkably turned Reykjavik into a transatlantic hub using 737s (they fly to Toronto, Montreal, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh...)
Toronto is a very small part of Canada

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