Norwegian Air International (Dublin International) will discontinue its transatlantic services out of Belfast International and Edinburgh to both Newburgh and Providence on the US East Coast. The flights are currently operated with narrowbody B737-8s.
Norwegian's US director of communications Anders Lindstrom told Mid-Hudson News that the flights from the Scottish capital had been launched "with the prospect of a reduction in air passengers taxes that was unfortunately postponed by the Scottish government." The carrier plans to terminate the "unsustainable" flights to Edinburgh after March 29, 2019. Flights out of Belfast will already be cut by October 27.
Norwegian Air International currently operates 2x weekly from Belfast to each of Newburgh and Providence. Out of Edinburgh, it serves Newburgh 4x weekly and Providence - 3x per week.
Following the cuts, Norwegian's long-haul narrowbody network would be limited to routes from Bergen to Newburgh, from Cork to Providence, and from both Dublin and Shannon to each of the US airports.
According to the ch-aviation capacity module, the other carriers currently using latest generation B737 MAX or A321neo narrowbody equipment on transatlantic routes are Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau), Azores Airlines (S4, Ponta Delgada), Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik), Primera Air Scandinavia (Billund), WestJet (WS, Calgary), and WOW air (Reykjavik Keflavik).
