I noticed that until recently the only winter flight from MIA that wasn't LGW was a single 1x weekly MIA-OSL-MIA, as in the aircraft was moreso based in MIA and not OSL (or that the other six empty days would've left the plane sitting in MIA, not OSL), so I figured it was only a matter of time before more destinations from MIA would be added.
This winter will also look busier than this summer from LGW, where it appears they've obtained enough slots for two daily flights (five daily departures/arrivals this summer, compared to seven starting in winter). Presumably this would also mean the UK AOC will get a seventh 787-9 (for the time being, G-INFO lists six), unless they can get away with what Norwegian did where, on occasion, a non UK-registered aircraft can do UK AOC flights and vice versa.
Oykie wrote:With regards to ancillary revenue I understand how they hit 100USD pr passenger. Almost everything is extra onboard Norse. We had an economy classic ticket and still had to pay 28 USD for second meal service. I do not remember that Norwegian long haul charged for the same thing. Luggage is also 75USD but that was fortunately included in the classic economy ticket. Even a carry on is 45USD if you do not select the classic ticket. To travel cheap with Norse, have a backpack or a purse. Bring all your food in that backpack and then you can actually cross the pond for a cheap amount.
Back during the birthday sale I helped book two SFO-LGW-LAX tickets for my parents (since they wanted to return in November whereas LGW-SFO only operates to the end of October, and they're going to self-connect to Southwest on LAX-SFO, as they did previously after doing NRT-LAX on ZIPAIR last year). The ancillaries are definitely more shameless than with Norwegian (although towards the end, they did also impose a fee for the carry-on, but it was closer to only being $14 on a route like SFO-LGW) when carry-ons are $45 on Norse, though I wouldn't know if they impose the "10kg combined weight for the personal and carry-on" as Norwegian did, or if they do "10kg for only the carry-on bag that goes in the overhead bin" instead, which is what Norwegian's policy was when we'd used them in the initial years following their long-haul launch.
Since the Classic ticket includes a carry-on and a checked bag, and they each were only going to have a backpack (or purse) as a personal item and one carry-on, what made the most sense was booking one Light and one Classic ticket, where the Classic ticket would be responsible for three bags (personal, carry-on, and the second "carry-on" being checked) and then the Light ticket would just have the backpack. They may just opt to share the one meal on each flight, or bring food onboard.
In total the Classic ticket itself was $220 more than the Light ticket (as a return), or averaged at $110 each way. Consider the Classic ticket as an ancillary over Light and that'd explain breaking $100 and we were otherwise trying to be reasonably frugal having done LCCs before. The total ticket price per preson was otherwise very reasonable and comparable to what we usually paid to fly Norwegian pre-covid.