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Norwegian Air pulls out of Stewart
Aug 14, 2019 12:21 am
Mid-Hudson News reports that Norwegian Air announced Aug. 13 it it is ending all fights from the Stewart International Airport in Newburgh in September. They blamed Boeing, the plane manufacturer forced to ground its 737 Max jets following two fatal crashes overseas last year. Those crashes grounded the 737 Max planes, forcing Norwegian to instead lease larger A330 jets. But before the Boeing planes were grounded, Norwegian had already begun shrinking its service to Stewart. Last September, Norwegian cut service from Stewart to Edinburgh, Scotland and Belfast, Northern Ireland. The airline was still flying between Newburgh and Dublin and Shannon, Ireland, and Bergen, Norway until this announcement. In May of this year, Stewart Manager Ed Harrison claimed Norwegian Air flights were nearly full in the larger planes it was leasing. But now a Norwegian spokesperson says that the uncertainty about when the 737 Max jets would return made leasing replacement planes “unsustainable.” Read more about this story at Mid-Hudson News.