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The management of Norwegian Air have reiterated a promise to deliver $69 trans-Atlantic flights using the new Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliner, starting sometime in 2017:
According to Norwegian Air chief commercial officer Thomas Ramdahl, his airline is awaiting the aircraft needed for the $69 flights. That's because the first of the 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliners Norwegian Air ordered to operate those flights won't be ready for delivery until 2017. The Boeing 737 Max 8 is expected to enter service with launch partner Southwest Airlines during the third quarter of 2017. However, Boeing told Bloomberg's Julie Johnson and Mary Schlangenstein that the planes could be ready for delivery as early as March.
Ramdahl told Business Insider that his airline plans to make an announcement around November or December of this year with firm details of the $69 fares. "I can promise you that you will see trans-Atlantic flights on the 737Max next year," Ramdahl told us in an interview last week. "And that's when you will see the $69 fares."
The 737 MAX 8 features new fuel-efficient CFM LEAP-1B engines, upgraded avionics, and aerodynamics. As as result, the new jet offers airlines the range and performance to operate trans-Atlantic service with the lower cost of a narrow-body jet.
Found at NBF, which mentions other variants of the 737 MAX.
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday September 15 2016, @12:51PM
...you have to go to Norway.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 15 2016, @12:55PM
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/west-coast-of-us-to-europe-flights-can.html [nextbigfuture.com]
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday September 15 2016, @01:28PM
Shhh, you're ruining it.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday September 15 2016, @03:16PM
My buddy is trying to convince me to join him in Sweden for a vacation this February. LA to Stockholm is ~300USD.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday September 15 2016, @09:00PM
Your buddy must be a vampire. Stockholm doesn't get a lot of sunlight in February. And dress warmly. I'd leave your swimming suit at home.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday September 15 2016, @08:56PM
Norway isn't so bad... so long as you don't arrive in the Winter. And it's filled with far more enlightened people than the UK, although there are a lot fewer of them there. Of course, if you want to go to the other parts of Europe you have a bit of a hike in front of you.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.