New Delhi: Iceland’s budget airline Wow Air has announced ‘cheapest flights’ to multiple North American destination and Europe via Reykjavik from December this year. The airline on Tuesday said that the fare would start at Rs 13,499. According to the airline, it is offering fare at this price to Keflavik airport and from there to other destinations in North America and Europe.
“While the Wow basic introductory fare will be priced at Rs. 13,499 with taxes, the ‘Wow premium’ fares at the other end will be priced from Rs. 46,599 onwards including taxes,” the airline’s founder and chief executive officer Skuli Mogensen said. The ‘Wow basic’ one-way fare includes all taxes but excludes meals and check-in baggage, said an NDTV report quoting PTI.
According to airline’s website, travellers to New York will take 20 hours and would stop over for a couple of hours at Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. Around 20,000 Indians travel to North America every day and with this ‘cheapest deals’, they will have more options for travel.
The airline that operates five days a week, would be flying an Airbus A330 Neo to India. It currently serves 39 destinations including London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Baltimore, San Francisco and Chicago.