I guess as the MAX arrive, older generation 737-800s will be withdrawn. LN-NOT sits engineless at Lasham after hand back to whoever owns it.

Thanks EIFFS, good to know. I love (cliche warning) business who can disrupt the market in favour of us consumers but attacking the terms and conditions of employees has become an art form amongs MBA clone in the industry IMHO.

Have had some cancelled flights for the next few days.

FR have cancelled two EDI to STN tomorrow. So?

Bondi wont be happy......final approval from the US

Tonight we have welcomed news that our British subsidiary ‘Norwegian UK’ (NUK) has been granted a foreign air carrier permit by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The permit allows NUK to operate flights between the UK, Europe and the United States.

Has norwegian launched/announced BHX to EWR or MAN to EWR? Havent paid much attention but their site has
EWR - MAN listed 9th, 16th & 23rd Oct

BHX to EWR 15th & 22nd Oct

But cant see any other dates or directions?

It's via BCN.

Thanks @LAX_LHR - I did wonder.

Just tried Norwegian transatlantic for first time. A mini-review.



As SLF with no weekend stay, BA and VS fares were astronomical. DY was a nobrainer at a fraction of the cost, with lounge access.

Via Twitter, they advised me that they did not offer Fastrack security access in PE, but this was not the case and it was indeed included. After me paying £4.99 to Gatwick Airport separately for the privilege.

At check-in, they told my friend that he might be refused access to USA because his passport was invalid. This was absolute nonsense but made for a fretful flight. I was fairly relaxed because I think DY would have been fined if they got it wrong, but still... its not nice to board a flight with doubts in your mind, knowing how awful US immigration at BOS can be.


The seat was comfortable with excellent legroom (proviso at the bottom)


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Food was an issue in PE - the included portions were tiny and all our party were ravenous by the time we landed in Boston.


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The sandwiches were wet, and basically unedible.


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Norwegian were also extremely strict about standing near the galley (and by default, loos) claiming US law forbade people standing there. Funny, no one has told VS or BA that!

And don't pick a window seat unless you really know the person next to you - when seat in front is reclined it is extremely difficult go get out for a loo break...


Would I use them again? Probably. And pick and aisle seat.
But I'd really try to rearrange my dates to include a Saturday night stay and use BA or VS.

SealinkBF
 

It is indeed a US requirement that a PA be made during boarding, requesting that people do not congregate in the galley or toilet area, all airlines operating inbound to/from the US are required to comply with this instruction.

My prepaid economy food looked rather better than yours.

On my route premium was full, but towards the back a number of rows were empty, providing 3 seats across sleeping!

Have the direct Manchester to Malaga flights been canned or simply not loaded yet?

Seems all MAN-Spain routes have been canned (as has BHX).

Norwegian Med flights
 

None loaded yet from any Uk location to the med, told it will be month end before they do and expect some surprises.

I have been told that ex-UK the focus is going to be on long haul (especially Gatwick), and drop short haul service which are ‘harder to make money’...

Wouldn't surprise me if they had, some of the routes were reading more like a bus schedule with the amount of flights per day, especially weekends

EDI to BCN was loaded some weeks ago, as was Tenerife.

New UK airports? Or new routes to the ones they already serve?

I imagine they'll be looking at former Monarch bases, particularly BHX and MAN especially since so far, Ryanair hasn't made any pitch to fill the gap, and I guess with the trimming of services and the bad publicity they have suffered as a consequence any announcement may be badly received by the press and media, if not by the public at large.

I do keep hearing persistent rumours of MAN-SWF.

I'm not surprised about the cuts to a few of the sun routes at MAN. Even with Monarch now out of the picture, it's those sort of routes where there's plenty of well established competition already. Time will tell whether there's big capacity gaps on the ex-Monarch routes, but I appreciate it's more down to yields.