£99 flights to America from Gatwick

£99 flights to America

Low-cost airline WOW air is launching £99 flights to America from Gatwick. And the fares to Boston and Washington DC (above) can be booked from today.

WOW air, Iceland’s only low-cost airline, will operate the flights via Reykjavik in Iceland, offering the cheapest connection between Europe and North America.

Passengers will be able to continue on to their destination shortly after landing at Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport from the UK. Flights will begin to Boston Logan International Airport on March 27 followed by Baltimore Washington International starting on June 4.

Skúli Mogensen, CEO of WOW air, said: “This is just the beginning of our plans to transform low-cost transatlantic flights. Not only are we providing flights to the USA for less than a standard London to Edinburgh train ticket, we’re opening the market to a whole new market of travellers who might previously not have been able to afford transatlantic travel.

“The low-cost airline market is scrambling to offer cheap flights to North America and I’m happy that we‘ll be amongst the first to do so and at a price point that will no doubt cause our rivals to re-evaluate their plans.”

See www.wowair.co.uk