WOW Air is offering fares from London to New York for £99 – that’s LESS than the cost of the taxes
WOW Air has dropped its prices to celebrate its new route from London Stansted to JFK
THE competition between low-cost long-haul airlines like WOW Air and Norwegian is now so intense that it is regularly cheaper to fly from London to New York than get the train to Edinburgh.
WOW Air has dropped its prices once again this week - offering fares on its new route from London Stansted to the Big Apple for £99.
They have introduced the low fares to celebrate their new route from the North London airport to New York's JFK airport.
WOW air is offering transatlantic fares from London to New York for less than the cost of the taxes – essentially paying for passengers to fly – to celebrate a new service to the Big Apple.
The fares are now on sale for the new route beginning April 2018, although there is a slight catch - all of the flights have to go via Reykjavik in Iceland.
If you're feeling adventurous though, it's well worth making the layover a second part of the holiday.
According to the airline, their new £99 offering is £24 less than the actual cost of Air Passenger Duty for each traveller.
Skúli Mogensen, CEO and Founder of WOW air, said: "We are proud to constantly be lowering fares across the Atlantic, enabling more people to fly in our brand new aircraft and to experience the world.
“Air Passenger Duty in the UK is one of the highest in the world and we would love to change this. These low fares make a statement and allow our passengers to fly affordably.“
Already operating a route to Newark Liberty International Airport, the airline also currently offers routes to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Boston, Montreal, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami.
The airline announced new routes earlier this year to Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis and Cincinnati starting in April 2018, which link up with its new Stansted service.
At the tail end of May, the airline will also be increasing the frequency of its daily service to Newark, bringing the total number of flights to 13 per week from 29 May 2018.