Ben Mutzabaugh

USA TODAY

Norwegian Air is again expanding its U.S. footprint, announcing new flights to London Gatwick from both Denver and Seattle. The carrier will use Boeing 787 “Dreamliners” on the routes, its first from each of the two U.S. cities.

Norwegian will begin selling flights on the routes early Thursday morning. Fares will begin at $199 for standard economy seats and $839 one way for seats in Norwegian's “Premium Cabin,” which offers extra space and seating comparable to “premium economy” on international carriers like British Airways, Lufthansa and Air France.

Denver and Seattle will give the fast-growing budget airline European flights from a total of 13 U.S. destinations. From those 13 cities, Norwegian flies 48 different non-stop routes to Europe on either a seasonal or year-round basis. Norwegian also flies a handful of routes from the U.S. East Coast to the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

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As for the new service from London Gatwick, Norwegian now will offer flights to London from nine U.S. cities once the Denver and Seattle flights start. That, Norwegian says, will give it more non-stop routes to the British capital than any U.S. carrier. London Gatwick has become one of Norwegian’s busiest hubs, with non-stop routes to both the United States and to cities across Europe.

“London is somewhat of the crown jewel in our ever-growing global route network, and a lot of our growth is focused on London and the United Kingdom,” Norwegian spokesman Anders Lindström says in a statement to Today in the Sky, hinting even more U.S.-London routes could be on the way.

“With today’s route announcement, we surpass all the American airlines in terms of nonstop routes from the U.S. to London, yet we still see the demand for many, many more flights to London, as well of course to many other cities across Europe,” Lindström says.

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Norwegian’s Denver service will launch Sept. 16 with two flights a week. A third weekly flight will be added on Nov. 2 and will continue through “the popular winter season,” when Denver becomes a hub for skiers headed to Colorado’s slopes.

From Seattle, Norwegian will begin its four-times-a-week London schedule on Sept. 17.

Norwegian already offers either year-round or seasonal service to London Gatwick from seven other U.S. airports: Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York JFK, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland and Orlando.

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In addition to London, Norwegian flies (or has announced plans for) non-stop service from the U.S. to a total of 11 European destinations. They are Barcelona; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Bergen, Norway; Copenhagen; Cork, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Paris Charles de Gaulle; Shannon, Ireland; Stockholm; and Oslo, Norway.

Some of Norwegian’s most-anticipated new U.S. routes will launch this summer, when the airline begins flying its new Boeing 737 MAX jets from three medium-sized airports in the U.S. Northeast.

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The airline is adding roughly a dozen non-stop routes from Providence; Hartford, Conn.; and Newburgh, N.Y., that will connect those cities to destinations in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Those flights went on sale to great fanfare in February, when Norwegian rolled out introductory fares starting at just $65 one way to help promote the service.

With those three Northeast cities -- plus Denver and Seattle -- Norwegian's schedule will now include trans-Atlantic flights from a total of 13 U.S. airports. They are: Boston, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Hartford, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Newark Liberty, Newburgh, Oakland, Providence, Orlando and Seattle.

Norwegian also flies from Baltimore/Washington International (BWI), but not to Europe. Norwegian's service from BWI is to Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

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