Sunday, June 04, 2017

Soon, budget flights from India to North America

New Delhi: You may soon have the option of flying low cost all the way from India to North America. Norwegian, the world's seventh largest budget carrier which recently announced fares starting at $65 from Europe and US, says it is considering India as a destination. Its India-Oslo flights will provide connections on Norwegian's budget network to US and the Caribbean from the Norway hub.
A Norwegian spokesperson said: "As an ambitious airline with a huge aircraft order, Norwegian are always looking at potential new routes and while there are no immediate plans to serve India at this stage, it remains a market we are interested in, in the future." Norwegian website says it offers over 500 routes to more than 150 destinations in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, the Caribbean and the US. The LCC has 130 aircraft in its fleet with more than 260 on order.
International low cost carriers are eying India in a big way, even as among desi budget carriers only SpiceJetBSE 1.06 % is toying with the idea of flights to Europe. Singapore Airlines' (SIA) long-haul LCC Scoot wants to operate its Boeing 787 Dreamliners on Singapore-India-Europe/Gulf routes under "fifth freedom" of aviation which lets an airline can fly from its home country to a second nation and take passengers from there to a third country and same on return.
04/06/17 Saurabh Sinha/Economic Times
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