Located just above the Equator, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico is part of the Greater Antilles right at the heart of the Western Hemisphere. Puerto Rico offers a unique combination of beach resorts, history, nature, gambling and cruise holiday experience and its strategic location coupled with its already strong connectivity makes it the best connected destination in the Caribbean and potentially a hub for onward connections across the region with particularly strong connectivity into the Dominican Republic, US Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles and the British Virgin Islands Alongside existing demand for cruise and package tours from tour operators in the UK, Norwegian will be able stimulate demand for independent travellers looking to fly to Puerto Rico.ДЄs the chart below from analysis by leading route development consultants ASM illustrates, the United Kingdom is the largest unserved market between Europe and Puerto Rico with an estimated 25,000 passengers flying between the two, the majority using indirect connections via US hub airports through transatlantic services from the US majors and their partners and adding around four to ten hours to the journey. There are currently only two regular links to San Juan from Europe with German leisure carrier and Thomas Cook Airline Group subsidiary Condor offering a link from Frankfurt and Spanish carrier and SkyTeam alliance member Air Europa linking San Juan to Madrid. In the past 12 months this market size was an estimated 150,000 passengers, with 87 per cent having to travel indirect due to the current limited direct offering across the Atlantic. The market from Europe to Puerto Rico is currently massively underserved, with a significant percentage of indirect passengers already flying between the two markets. We are looking forward to welcoming new and returning customers on our new routes from Puerto Rico to Europe,вЂќ said Thomas Ramdahl, chief commercial officer, Norwegian.

This makes it even more enjoyable to add more destinations to our route map of more than 100 destinations. вЂњThe response weвЂ™ve had on our intercontinental destinations has been overwhelming and it is obvious that affordable fares were scarce before Norwegian entered the market. The flights will commence in the first week of November 2015 and like its existing long-haul network flown using 291-seat 787-8s. There will be weekly flights from Copenhagen (on Fridays, returning via St Croix in the United States Virgin Islands), Oslo (Sundays) and Stockholm (Tuesdays) and twice weekly flights from London Gatwick (Wednesdays and Saturdays). All its existing routes are served using its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner fleet.ДЄccording to NorwegianвЂ™s newly uploaded flight schedule, San Juan will be served by five weekly flights from Europe during the winter 2015/2016 schedule which runs from Octothrough to March 26, 2016.

Norwegian already offers long-haul flights to Bangkok in Thailand and Ft Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland and Orlando in the United States, but is boosting its offering into new markets. The event, which is the route development forum for the entire Americas region, will be hosted by Puerto Rico Tourism Company with the support of their partners Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC and MeetPuertoRico. As part of the latest stage of its network growth the Nordic carrier is introducing flights to San Juan from Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and London during the winter 2015/2016 schedule.Д«uilding on the success of this yearвЂ™s event in Denver, USA, Routes Americas 2016 will take place in February 2016, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The host of next yearвЂ™s Routes Americas forum has secured significant new links from Europe as Norwegian further grows its low-cost, long-haul offering between Europe and North America.

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