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Source: Simple Flying
09.07.2018

Back in August of 2018, it was announced that Norwegian would be expanding into the Argentinian domestic market, launching their own subsidiary airline and planning to smash the legacy airlines located in the country to bring ultra-cheap travel to locals.

Why this is big news
A quick history lesson first, Argentina has some of the most expensive domestic air travel in the world. This is because the government has set a ‘floor’ price, essentially a minimum price of how much it costs to fly each passenger per 100km, which currently is set to $12.37.

This, however, has been scrapped by the government of Argentina and means that from October 2018 there will be no floor price, allowing a feeding frenzy of cheap fares across the country.

Norwegian Air Shuttle, a famous and expanding long-haul low-cost carrier based in Europe, has seen the market opportunity down south and saw fit to begin new subsidiary operations. This rapidly follows on from their launch in Brazil several months earlier and in February, Norwegian started a non-stop flight between London Gatwick (LGW) and Buenos Aires (EZE), which began its foray into the South America aviation market.

“We serve a lot of places in the US and in Europe, but South America is our focus in 2018, There are other countries with priority in South American that are not well served.” – Bjørn Kjos, Norwegian CEO

The new routes
The airline will launch with six new domestic routes across Argentina, from October 16th:

Buenos Aires (AEP)to Córdoba (COR) – 404 mi
Buenos Aires (AEP)to Mendoza (MDZ) – 609 mi
Buenos Aires (AEP)to Iguazú (IGR) – 652 mi
Buenos Aires (AEP)to Neuquén (NQN) – 619 mi
Buenos Aires (AEP)to Bariloche (BRC) – 831 mi
Buenos Aires (AEP)to Salta (SLA) – 792 mi

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