Norwegian launches flights between LGW and SIN

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This is certainly an interesting development. Low-cost travel all the way to Europe just got even easier.

Buy a round-trip ticket from Australia to Singapore on Scoot or Jetstar. Buy a second round-trip ticket from Singapore to London on Norwegian, and you have a return trip to Europe for potentially well under $1,000 (and even less if you don't need checked luggage)!
 
This is certainly an interesting development. Low-cost travel all the way to Europe just got even easier.

Buy a round-trip ticket from Australia to Singapore on Scoot or Jetstar. Buy a second round-trip ticket from Singapore to London on Norwegian, and you have a return trip to Europe for potentially well under $1,000 (and even less if you don't need checked luggage)!

The potential already exists though with a range of legacy carriers all under $1000. Meals, booze, IFE and everything else included. And no potential missed connections.
 
The potential already exists though with a range of legacy carriers all under $1000. Meals, booze, IFE and everything else included. And no potential missed connections.

That's true. The LCC option is perhaps more price-competitive if purchasing one-way tickets.

Either way, I'll be interested to see how this new route goes. SIN-LGW would surely have to be one of the world's longest non-stop LCC flights?
 
That's true. The LCC option is perhaps more price-competitive if purchasing one-way tickets.

LCCs are very useful for combining with reward tix or building your own RTW.
My last RTW..
JQ SYD-HNL (Y with paid upgrade)
AA HNL-LAX-CLT-MIA-PTY-MIA-JFK (paid J/F)
DY JFK-BGN-DBV (that's Norwegian to Bergen and Dubrovnik)
QR VIE-DOH-HKG (AA reward in J)
QF HKG-BNE-SYD (AA reward in J)
 
That's true. The LCC option is perhaps more price-competitive if purchasing one-way tickets.

Either way, I'll be interested to see how this new route goes. SIN-LGW would surely have to be one of the world's longest non-stop LCC flights?

I can't think of one longer.

Hadn't thought of one-ways, but they are goof for that.
 
This is certainly an interesting development. Low-cost travel all the way to Europe just got even easier.

Buy a round-trip ticket from Australia to Singapore on Scoot or Jetstar. Buy a second round-trip ticket from Singapore to London on Norwegian, and you have a return trip to Europe for potentially well under $1,000 (and even less if you don't need checked luggage)!
I never find LCCs that cheap. You can pick up flights on legacy carriers for not much more.

One thing I did find was LCCs are good for one way travel if booked in advance. For last minute travel they can be expensive.
 
AirAsia X (D7) will be launching KUL-KIX-HNL

[off topic] I wonder if GK will launch services to HNL?
Particularly as JQ already fly to HNL, NRT & KIX, and Hawaii is immensely popular with the Japanese with countless daily services offered by JAL & ANA.
 
[off topic] I wonder if GK will launch services to HNL?
Particularly as JQ already fly to HNL, NRT & KIX, and Hawaii is immensely popular with the Japanese with countless daily services offered by JAL & ANA.

I have no doubt that they would fill their planes if Jetstar Japan offered NRT-HNL flights. But (unless the plane stopped somewhere like MDY) GK's A320s wouldn't have the range.

I wonder if JQ could operate such a flight though (or at least provide the required 787/s)?
 
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Either way, I'll be interested to see how this new route goes. SIN-LGW would surely have to be one of the world's longest non-stop LCC flights?

yes. But D7 did have KUL - London (Can't remember which airport) which is only 200 or so km shorter more than 5 years ago. Would have survived if they had 787's. IIRC, they used A340's.
 
SIN-LGW would surely have to be one of the world's longest non-stop LCC flights?

Indeed, London-Singapore becomes world's longest LCC route as Norwegian enters: Long haul low cost, Part 1:-

CAPA said:
London-Singapore will become the longest LCC route in the world – based both on distance and scheduled flight time – when it launches in late Sep-2017. Currently Eurowings’ Cologne-coughet service is the longest LCC route in the world, and another Eurowings route, Cologne-Bangkok, is the second longest.

Eurowings is suspending service to coughet at the end of Apr-2017 but is maintaining service to Bangkok. Both routes were launched by the Lufthansa Group subsidiary at the end of 2015, enabling Eurowings to take over from Norwegian the distinction of having the world’s longest LCC route.

Norwegian initially gained the distinction of operating the world’s longest LCC route in Jun-2013, when it launched services to Bangkok from Oslo and Stockholm. Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a slightly longer route by distance, was launched in Mar-2014 and is currently Norwegian’s longest route. (Norwegian added Copenhagen to Bangkok in Jul-2014, but Copenhagen-Bangkok is slightly shorter.)

The CAPA article provides a ton of info about past, present and future long haul LCC routes. For instance, tiny independent LCC French Blue will briefly hold the longest title if it launches Paris-La Réunion in mid-2017 as planned. Manila-LA is suggested as the most likely longer LCC route over the next few years (almost 1,000km longer than LGW-SIN).

There's a table of the longest route for each of 14 LCCs, ranging from 6,934km to 10,841km for the new LGW-SIN. Block times are upwards of 8:45, max 13:40 for the new LGW-SIN.


But D7 did have KUL - London (Can't remember which airport) which is only 200 or so km shorter more than 5 years ago. Would have survived if they had 787's. IIRC, they used A340's.

Air Asia X Aims to Resume London Route :: Routesonline:-

AirAsia X first launched flights to London in March 2009 with a link to Stansted Airport, but switched the route to Gatwick Airport from October 2011.

The London route was flown by an Airbus A340, but the arrival of longer-range A330 models and later the A330neo and A350 into the AirAsia X fleet will enable European services to be flown with the more efficient twin-engined airliners.

AirAsia is all Airbus these days, except for potentially leasing two B777s for resuming Gatwick ahead of the delivery of new aircraft.
 
That noise you hear is the sigh of relief from BA, QF, SQ etc....
 
That noise you hear is the sigh of relief from BA, QF, SQ etc....

Don't think SQ would have given two hoots about Norwegian, different market segment altogether, and Norwegian were extremely poor at marketing to the local market in Singapore, I assume they relied on the British/European market. When we flew them, racial composition was >90% caucasian - not to say there weren't some expats on board (like us), and maybe some other Aussies as well, but Singaporean locals are very used to and willing to fly LCC's - if they know about them. But most would not have heard about them at all.
 
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