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LOW COST CARRIER ‘WOW air’ has announced a new transatlantic service from Dublin, starting this October.
The Icelandic carrier will fly to Boston and Washington, via Reykjavik — and is promising flights as low as €149 (one way, including taxes).
Flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
WOW announced back in October that the airline would fly from Dublin to Reykjavik, offering the first ever direct scheduled flights between Ireland and Iceland. That route begins on 2 June next.
“We are thrilled to be able to offer our WOW prices for Irish passengers travelling between Dublin and North America,” CEO Skúli Mogensen said in a statement.
“Our aim is to transform low-cost transatlantic flights and make travel to the US affordable for everybody.”
The airline was founded in 2011 by Icelandic entrepreneur Skúli Mogensen, and flew its one millionth passenger last December.
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To hell with new york…been waitin on direct flights to iceland for years!id love to check that place out
Get in line mate hahaha. I cannot wait.
I’ve been & it is Amazing!!
My parents went there a few years ago and loved it. The land of fire and ice was fantastic although a small bit expensive but they said it was definitely worth going. Even just to stand near an active volcano and watch it makes the trip worthwhile .
There are so many places to see over there including the Northern Lights, it has always been so expensive to go via other airlines, so delighted to see that there are now direct flight!
That’s were my mum goes for her shopping…. Regards kerry katona
If you could layover in iceland for a few days it might be worth it.
This is wonderful news. Icelandic carriers offer North Americans free layovers in Reyjkavik on routes to Europe. No doubt if bookings are a success this will be the next step. Really great to see them joining the obvious dots between both sides of the pond!
It’s not really that great. Aerlingus do €249 fares to Boston at the minute. Would much prefer to fly direct.
FROM €249 try finding that fair on their website!
That’s one way I believe
I got their offer prices a few times. The trick is to book far enough in advance. No airline is gonna give you an offer price if you’re looking to go in a short space of time.
I’m going NY in the Summer for sub 500 all in direct. Think it’s AF/KLM.
It’s great that Wow are offering flights to Iceland but to the US I’ll pass.
No it’s return.
Do you think finding €149 fares on WOWs website will be easier?
I don’t know Darren as it is on the future and I am not mystery meg! Chances are it’s an intro price and will go up over time
It may be the future Wayne but airlines have these things called websites that allow you to check prices for dates in the future. Amazing really.
Darren, they find that €249 fair on EI’s website!
*try find
Darren & Wayne, just stop arguing you too. I’m sick of being caught in the middle.
Even if the supply of cheap .€€€ tickets is low, it should hopefully help drive prices lower across airlines. I’ll take that.
Just a shame that the euro is tanking so everything Stateside is going to cost us more…
Save 20 euro and ad 3 hours to your journey, where do I sign up for that
More than 3 hours, pre-clearance in Dublin/Shannon might save you 3 hours!
Not much savings. Priced return flights to Boston from Dublin, Aer Lingus: € 557.03, WOW: €437.06. I would much prefer the direct flight and be US pre cleared.
That is true and I would do that if I’m travelling alone, if you don’t have an extra €90 to spend in piece of mind then you shouldn’t be travelling at the first place if you are going to moan for €90. But if you’re travelling with a family of 4 then it becomes €360 savings which is a significant saving.
Cork Airport…. Wake up…..
Do aer lingus not do price from €149 as well if there’s a sale on. With them you get to fly to New York directly and you pass customs and emigration this side
Eyjafjallajokull would be nice to observe on the journey to Iceland.
Yep you do the security checks here and you just waltz out the door at JFK like an American citizen.
Not every EI flight has pre clearance
Yes they do
If any of us had any money to take up the offer, I’d say we’d all be jumping on a plane!!
By stopping in Iceland you won’t be able to avail of the US passport control in Dublin. That has to worth €200 at least
This price is not correct. Just tried to book a flight. It cost over 500 euros in Oct. It is a 10 hour flight. So why would you take it. Where are the flights for under 150 each way. Another scam.
That’s a return journey Margaret. It’s costing me €445 return for in Oct from Dublin to Boston.
Wow that’s great
Hmmm is that a lot of hot air from the Icelandics I wonder…
I’d say offers at that price are going to erupt.
Wow
Well worth a stopover in Iceland. It’s wonderful :)
Wow is better off having a base in Dublin, flying people from Reykjavik to Dublin, will benefit from US pre clearance. €149 each way is very good.
I love flying Aer Lingus. Was brilliant value in the pre fuel surcharge years. I hope Wow do well it might get Aer Lingus to look at that aforementioned surcharge again. it’s hardly warranted given the fuel price collapse.
They also said flights to Iceland would be from 50euro each way, pretty hard to find anything for less than 150 each way on their website. So FROM a certain price doesn’t mean that’s what the majority will be selling for.
also you cant actually buy a fare for €149 on their site, there is a a payment fee of €10.92 which gets added on
I love how they are advertising Dublin using a photo of Cork!
“OH! It’s the girls from Icelandic Air.”
Plus the tax… Awkward. (+1200€)
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