Primera Air, the airline subsidiary of Scandinavia's Primera Travel Group, has announced it will open three new bases in Europe ahead of the launch of transatlantic flights early next year.
The firm said in a statement that from base facilities at each of London Stansted and Birmingham, GB in the United Kingdom and Paris CDG in France, it would serve New York Newark and Boston in the United States beginning April 2018. Two more transatlantic routes will be announced by the end of the current summer 2017 season.
To facilitate the routes' launch, Primera Air announced earlier this year that it would take delivery of eight A321neo in 2018 including six standard variants, due in early 2018, and two Long Range variants due from AerCap during the final quarter of the year.
"We are very proud to announce our new bases and routes to the US," Andri M. Ingolfsson, President and Chairman of Primera Air, said. "With our brand new Airbus A321neo airplanes, we will operate routes traditionally served only by wide-body aircraft."
Flights to the US will operate year-round with Primera Air offering daily flights to New York and 4x weekly return flights to Boston from all three bases.
Primera Air operates across two AOCs - Primera Air Scandinavia (Billund) in Denmark and Primera Air Nordic (Riga) in Latvia. Collectively, they are used to run scheduled passenger flights from cities in Iceland, Sweden, Finland, and Norway to leisure destinations in Morocco, Iceland, Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Malta, and Croatia.
Later this winter, they will also be used to offer charter flights from Reykjavik Keflavik, Iceland, to each Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic (four total services) as well as Varadero in Cuba (two services). According to check-in.dk, given their duration, the flights will operate with a technical stop in Halifax, Canada.
