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   Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA hopes to sell one-way tickets to Europe for $69 as early as 2017 by flying from U.S. airports that have low fees, Chief Executive Officer Bjørn Kjos said in an interview Tuesday. 
   
   Europe's third-largest budget airline is considering flights to Edinburgh and Bergen, Norway from U.S. airports that have little to no international service today, such as New York's Westchester County Airport and Connecticut's Bradley International Airport, just north of Hartford, Kjos said. 
   
   Average prices on such routes are likely to be closer to $300 round trip, Kjos said, compared with many of Norwegian's fares that run more than $500 today because of higher fees levied by busier airports. 
   
   The potential plans are part of Norwegian's broader move to cut prices and take share from traditional flag carriers that dominate trans-Atlantic flying. 
   
   While airlines such as Deutsche Lufthansa AG offer travelers hundreds of destinations via connections in airport hubs, Norwegian is aiming to make nonstop service to small cities that straddle the Atlantic more common, which keeps costs low. 
   
   "I think you will see a lot to that effect within five years' time," Kjos said. "What will happen to (Lufthansa) when everyone starts to fly direct?" 
   
   Norwegian has 100 737 MAX jets from Boeing Co on order and expects to receive five in 2017. These planes are equipped to traverse the Atlantic but are smaller than most jets that currently do so, making them a better size for international flights to cities such as Birmingham in Britain, Kjos said. 
   
   Regulators will have to agree to set up customs stations at U.S. regional airports to handle international traffic, although Kjos said he is confident this can be arranged. 
   
   Norwegian is not the only airline to market cheap fares across the Atlantic. 
   
   Iceland's Wow Air recently offered one-way fares between Boston and Paris for $99. Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings is also starting cheap long-haul flights. 
   
   Kjos downplayed the competitive threat of Eurowings, saying, "I don't believe in their being able to operate low cost with a Boeing 767," in part because the widebody planes save less fuel and have smaller range than planes such as Boeing Dreamliners in Norwegian's fleet. 
   
   Norwegian separately reported Tuesday that it filled 96 percent of long-haul plane seats in September, helping the airline post better-than-expected results. ||||| Norwegian Air hopes to sell one-way tickets to North America for $69 (£45) as early as 2017 by flying to US airports that have low fees, chief executive Bjørn Kjos has said. 
   
   Europe's third-largest budget airline is considering flights to Edinburgh, Birmingham and Bergen in Norway from small US airports that have little to no international service, including New York's Westchester County Airport and Connecticut's Bradley International Airport, just north of Hartford. 
   
   Average prices on such routes are likely to be closer to $300 round trip, Mr Kjos said. 
   
   That price tag would be much lower than many of Norwegian's current long-haul fares, which cost $500 because of higher fees levied by busier airports. 
   
   These new plans are part of Norwegian's broader move to cut prices and take share from traditional flag carriers that dominate transatlantic flying. 
   
   While airlines such as Lufthansa offer travellers hundreds of destinations via connections at airport hubs, Norwegian is aiming to make non-stop services to smaller cities on either side of the Atlantic more common. 
   
   "I think you will see a lot to that effect within five years' time," Mr Kjos said. 
   
   • Are £99 flights to Canada the beginning of a budget transatlantic revolution? 
   
   "What will happen to (Lufthansa) when everyone starts to fly direct?" 
   
   Norwegian has 100 737 MAX jets from Boeing on order and expects to receive five in 2017. 
   
   These planes are equipped to cruise over the Atlantic but are smaller than most jets that currently make the journey, making them a better size for smaller airports such as Birmingham. 
   
   They're also more fuel efficient than their larger cousins. 
   
   Regulators will have to agree to set up customs stations at US regional airports to handle international traffic, although Mr Kjos said he was confident this could be arranged. 
   
   The airline said that while no decisions had been made on which UK airports would be included in the new, low-cost route, its existing operations at Gatwick, Manchester, Edinburgh and Birmingham would "naturally be the first destinations to consider operating from". 
   
   Norwegian is not the only airline to market cheap fares across the Atlantic. 
   
   Iceland's Wow Air recently offered one-way fares between Boston and Paris for $99. Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings is also starting cheap long-haul flights. 
   
   Kjos downplayed the competitive threat of Eurowings, saying "I don't believe in their being able to operate low cost with a Boeing 767", in part because the widebody planes save less fuel and have smaller range than planes such as Boeing Dreamliners in Norwegian's fleet. 
   
   Norwegian reported this week that it had filled 96pc of long-haul plane seats in September, helping the airline post better-than-expected results.
target: – It's hard to find a one-way ticket domestically for $69, but if the CEO of Norwegian Air has his way, a ticket for that much may soon be available between Europe and the US, NBC News reports. Bjorn Kjos' master plan is to connect flights from smaller coastal US airports—New York's Westchester County Airport and Connecticut's Bradley International Airport have both been mentioned—that offer lower fees than busier airports to European destinations such as Bergen, Norway, and Edinburgh, Scotland. It's all part of the budget airline's blueprint to wrest trans-Atlantic market share away from larger airlines such as Lufthansa. Norwegian has 100 Boeing 737 MAX jets on order, with the first five set to arrive in 2017, the Telegraph notes. These planes are capable of flying over the ocean, but are more fuel-efficient and smaller, which would make them a better size for smaller airports like the one in Birmingham, England. Regulators would have to agree to the plan and set up customs stations at those US airports that don't currently handle international flights, but Kjos says he's sure that won't be an issue. A round-trip ticket will likely cost around $300 once all the fees are factored in, but that's still cheaper than the $500 or so that Norwegian's flights in and out of busier airports run, NBC notes. (One day of the week is the best day to buy a plane ticket.)