WOW air

By Nigel Mayes
This week: United launches Houston-Sydney route and WOW air continues North American growth.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The World Routes 2017 conference programme will examine some of the biggest issues facing aviation, set to provide significant opportunities and challenges in the coming years.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
As passenger numbers at Pittsburgh International Airport continue to rise, chief executive Christina Cassotis outlines how the airport is successfully transitioning from a hub to focus on point-to-point traffic.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
WOW air only began serving the US in 2015 but now has 12 destinations in its network following the launch of four new routes.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
As foreign competitors continue to erode flag carrier El Al’s market share, Routesonline looks at the growing appeal of Israel for international airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Nigel Mayes
Our new feature brings you expert insight from Airport Strategy & Marketing into three of this week's stand-out new routes
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
Airline reveals targets in "hot" US and Canada markets
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Having lived in the shadow of Icelandair’s effective European and North American network strategy since it launched services in 2012, WOW air has now exploded into the low-cost transatlantic market with a network that covers almost 30 destinations in Europe and North America. And having grown capacity by over 90 per cent in 2016, it expects to continue its rapid rise as the low-cost long-haul model continues to stimulate traffic across the Atlantic.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
New flights from WOW air and Condor will boost connectivity between Europe and Pittsburgh next summer adding to Delta Air Lines seasonal flight to Paris which has operated each summer since 2009. The flights to Reykjavik and Frankfurt will commence in June 2017 and will allow Pittsburgh International Airport to continue its recent international growth.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The low-fare carrier will introduce a three times weekly link between Bristol and its Keflavik International Airport hub from May 13, 2016 using an A320. This flight will connect via a short stopover in Reykjavik to the carrier’s long-haul flights to Baltimore, Boston and new routes starting in 2016 to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States and Montreal and Toronto in Canada.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The airline became a pioneer of ultra-low-cost travel between Europe and North America when it debuted its flights into the US market earlier this year and will replicate this in Canada with its new flights to Montreal and Toronto from May 2016. This latest growth is described by the carrier’s chief executive officer, Skúli Mogensen as a “game changer for WOW air” as it seeks to cement itself as the “industry leader” in the ultra-low-cost long haul category.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Although not formally advertised by the airline as yet, the proposed four times weekly flights between Keflavik International Airport, serving the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, and both Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal and Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto are displayed in its website booking engine. This displays four times weekly links on each route launching from May 12, 2016 for Montreal and May 20, 2016 for Toronto.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The aircraft will be delivered to WOW air in mid-March in a single-class 200-seat configuration. They will enter into service on the airline’s new routes between Reykjavik and the United States, with flights to Boston beginning on March 27, 2015 and to Washington DC on May 8, 2015.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The Icelandic carrier plans to extend its Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport flight schedule, operating services between BWI and Reykjavik a month earlier than planned.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
At Routesonline we’ve decided to take a look back at a breaking article from the same time last year and revisit it 12 months later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Icelandic carrier WOW air is to launch a new year-round link between Reykjavik and Dublin from next summer. The three times weekly route will commence on June 2, 2015 and will be the first scheduled service between the two cities.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Caroline Cook, deputy editor of our sister publication, Routes News, reports from the World Travel Market in London. Icelandic LCC, WOW air, will add
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Icelandic carrier WOW air has expanded its fleet with the arrival of two additional Airbus A320s this summer as it looks to further expand its
Airports & Networks