santos From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2007, 704 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 12400 times:
Another long haul route for Norwegian Airlines, along with New York and Bangkok.
Safe to say that this rout will be started with the A343-300 from HiFly?
"Norwegian launches Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as a new destination from Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Copenhagen - Fort Lauderdale twice a week
Norwegian will fly twice a week between Copenhagen (CPH) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL), on Mondays and Fridays. Departure from Copenhagen is at 14:45, arriving in FLL at 19:30 local time. Departure from FLL is at 21:30, arriving CPH at 12:45 the next day. The first flight is November 29.
Stockholm - Fort Lauderdale twice a week
Norwegian will fly twice a week between Stockholm (ARN) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL), on Thursdays and Sundays. Departure from ARN is at 14:45, arriving FLL at 19:30 local time. Departure from FLL is at 21:30, arriving ARN at 13:00 the next day. The first flight is December 1."
mah4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31107 posts, RR: 74 Reply 5, posted (2 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 10972 times:
Great for Fort Lauderdale. Interesting choice of FLL over MIA (which was originally planned). Wonder what spurred it? But I'm sure the European carriers at MIA are happy about that.
luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 9, posted (2 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 10145 times:
Quoting robbie86 (Reply 6): Since the most important thing for DY is to keep their costs down I assume that FLL gave them a better deal than MIA.
Quoting by738 (Reply 8): and no horrific MIA immigration !
Well said and most likely you hit the nail on the head. Also I would imagine a good portion might be headed to Disney / Universal and FLL is a tad closer then MIA!
PI4EVER From United States of America, joined May 2009, 599 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (2 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 9684 times:
I think this service will be very successful. Two sets of friends who live in OSL already plan to use this new service to seek out the warm weather and shopping in FL. These folks previously lived in FL and visit about every 2 years and had planned on using the NYC service to get to the US, so they are excited this new service puts them squarely where they want to be.
Warm weather and a favorable exchange rate doesn't hurt marketing efforts either, and I hope DY gets a fair share of US originating traffic as well to visit Scandinavia. Norway is without a doubt one of the most beautiful places on this earth, and I encourage anyone to seriously consider visiting this awesome country, easily connected with DY service to ARN and CPH.
mah4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31107 posts, RR: 74 Reply 14, posted (2 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 9529 times:
Quoting luv2fly (Reply 13): So I would think that they would check out Disney and Universal. It is a pretty sweeping generalization to say Scandinavians aren't theme park fans.
It's a pretty sweeping generalzation to say that American's aren't fans of Brazilian beach resorts, but both statements are still true. Orlando is not popular with Scandanavians. Just like it's not popular with Italians, French or Spainards.
Norcal773 From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 1277 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (2 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 9207 times:
Quoting luv2fly (Reply 9): Well said and most likely you hit the nail on the head. Also I would imagine a good portion might be headed to Disney / Universal and FLL is a tad closer then MIA!
Not to forget the cruises out of FLL on the weekends and the Mon and Fri flights makes a lot of sense at least in that regard since the big ones leave Sat & Sun and are back the following Sat & Sun.
luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 20, posted (2 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 9174 times:
Quoting mah4546 (Reply 17): I think those arbitrary numbers make pretty clear and affirm what I said: Scandanavians are not big fans of theme parks
Yes and no you said that they are not fans of theme parks in general, of that was true the numbers would be even lower. Some people are going the numbers show that.
KiwiRob From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 5283 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (2 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 9050 times:
Quoting mah4546 (Reply 10):
Scandanavians aren't theme park fans. A good portion probably aren't heading to Orlando at all.
Liseberg, LegoLand, Tivoli, Hunderfossen, Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park, Bakken, Grona Lunds Tivoli plus a number of others all say differently; apart from LegoLand most of these parks are supported primarily by the local populations. This very morning I received a mass email from HRG with package deals for EuroDisney from Oslo.
flymia From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 6283 posts, RR: 6 Reply 23, posted (2 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 8103 times:
Great news for FLL and the Miami area. I'm sure FLL gave them a better deal makes sense for the low cost carrier to go to FLL even though a few Low Cost Euro carries are choosing MIA these days.
speedbird2263 From Jamaica, joined Jul 2006, 454 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (2 months 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 7148 times:
Quoting flymia (Reply 23): FLL immigration is pretty bad. Terminal 4 the only international terminal and is an absolute joke of a building.
I agree however, they are currently in the process of renovating and expanding Terminal 4 so that's a plus! It's currently a zoo in there throughout the day and evenings with woefully inadequate seating for NK's customers.
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25 B747forever: Now DY has both NYC and Florida covered, Next must be California, with service to LAX.
26 flymia: Agreed 100% and based on how busy it is at night I wonder if Norwegian will get towed over to terminal 2 for the sake of everyone leaving out of term
27 crownvic: Does anyone remember Transwede use to fly this route with MD80's back in the 80's? The flight stopped, but cannot remember if it was Gander or Bangor.
28 harmonium: Correct. The A340s are leased as a backup for the 787. I believe that due to the fact that these flights are not to start in another half a year, it
29 SANFan: Nice to see an intercontinental add for FLL! (I'm always happy to see the "little guy" win a hand now and then.) bb
30 Navigator: Interesting assumption. Never heard this before. I assumed scandinavians are frequent travellers to Orlando. Both Sea world and Disney attract many s
31 SAS A340: Would it be wrong to say that a cruise ship is some kind of theme/water park? because if it was,the number of Scandinavians who vissited them, would
33 Navigator: We have theme parks in both Stockholm and Gothenburg and in Denmark you also have LEGOLAND. And I suppose Olando is visited by many scandinavians eve
34 KiwiRob: I'll be in Disneyland this summer with my Scandinavian wife and 3 Scandinavian children.
35 jfklganyc: Is it bad that as an a.net nerd I had to google this airline? I actually thought someone meant NCL (cruise line) and put it in the wrong forum! Exciti
36 Scooter01: And don't forget, on to The Bahamas! Scooter01
37 HELyes: Not sure about oneworld but Norwegian and Finnair tried to build partnership a couple of years back, nothing happened. For some reason Finnair still
38 SCQ83: How often international tourists going to Disneyworld drive from MIA/FLL? I imagine tourists combining Orlando with Miami/Keys, but for those heading
39 mah4546: While Americans don't see it as a family resort, foreigners absolutely do see it as a family resort, and come to Miami in far larger numbers than the
40 arn777: Great news and I feel quite confident that this will be a success.
41 EBGflyer: Looking at the schedule it's obvious that the DY planes (hopefully the 787's) are going to shuffle around between CPH and ARN. Copenhagen – Ft. Laud
42 SCQ83: I know that many Europeans combine both Disneyworld and Miami in the same trip (since it is such a long flight which usually means a 1-week vacation
43 bagmanlgw: Would have thought another destination still to be added during the 26 hour break Oslo maybe what about London Gatwick ? Still expanding at LGW first
44 Bongodog1964: Uk tourists tend only to use MIA if they are touring Florida, Orlando bound tourists mainly use MCO, SAN or TPA. Here in the UK MIami is promoted as
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