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Matthew Parsons
Norwegian airline company start-up Norse Atlantic on Friday got approval from U.S. authorities to operate flights to the U.S., a “significant turning point” in its plan to release flights this spring, the business said.
“The United States Department of Transport (USDOT) approved Norse Atlantic Airway’s application for the operation of flights between Norway/The European Union and the United States,” the business composed in a statement.
In December, the fledgling airline company, likewise known as Norse, got its Norwegian air operator’s certificate and took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Norse plans to start commercial operations this spring, with the very first flights connecting Oslo to select cities in the U.S., it added.
It is preparing routes from New York, Los Angeles and Florida to European destinations consisting of London, Paris and Oslo.
“We believe that transatlantic travel will resume with full blast once the pandemic lags us,” Norse CEO and creator Bjoern Tore Larsen stated in the declaration.
Norse looks for to fill a space left by the exit from long-distance services by Norwegian Air, which came close to collapse early in the pandemic and has because retrenched as part of a restructuring procedure.
(Reporting by Nora Buli. Editing by Mark Potter)
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