MidHudson News is reporting Norse Atlantic Airways has received approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation to operate flights between New York Stewart International Airport in Orange County, and Norway and the European Union. The new service is expected to begin this spring. The airline will also operate flights between Oslo and Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles. The new service between Norway and Stewart is great news, said Maureen Halahan, president of the Orange County Partnership. “It will hopefully be the beginning of opening up that European market and the UK when people catch on that it is very easy to fly into Stewart, easy access to New York City. That is what they built the international arrivals building for,” she said. Norse CEO and founder Bjorn Tore Larsen said the service will be affordable and the airline will deliver many jobs to American workers. Read the full story at MidHudsonNews [dot] com.