Norwegian Airlines

How soon will you be booking this? My daughter-in-law is flying this route Sunday to begin semester abroad in Rome. My son will fly this route in March for a visit. They chose this having to drive to Newark from Philly for the convenience of the direct flight at low cost. You can PM me for their feedback if you don't need to book quickly.

Norwegian is our favorite airline! Orlando-Oslo once. Orlando-London twice and booked again for 2018. All flights nonstop, on time, and about $550-$650 round trip. Then we use Norwegian or EasyJet to get to our other European destinations. From Orlando Norwegian uses new 787 Dreamliners, which are more comfortable than most economy seats. All seats have good free selection of movies.
But you have to pay for anything else. Even water! We bring an empty water bottle and fill it after going through security. We also bring food for snacks and breakfast and our own ear buds for the movie sound. We never pay extra for seat selection but they have always put us together. Give them a try.

We used them Sept '16 JFK to Europe and we were impressed. We'd fly again with them. Being a discount airline as others noted there are up charges for extras i.e. seat selection, meals etc but even paying for some up charges they were still cheaper than other carriers. Try using search feature on forum, there have been a number of posts recently discussing Norwegian airlines.

Used them Denver to London. New dreamliners were comfortable, service was friendly. Bring food water ear buds for sure. Be careful with carryon luggage. Limited to 10 kg and they weighed it. We did prepay to check one bag for 4 of us and carried on under 10kg and we were ok. Pre pay any checked bags to save $20 a bag. Will fly them again as they were considerably less expensive than other carriers.

There are a number of previous threads on Norwegian Air on this forum, including a long one of mine which I don't want to rewrite here. I've flown them twice from the west coast and will do so again, even though I had a problem with them on one flight.
The Dreamliners are wonderful. I think they use some 737s from some east coast locales, which wouldn't be as comfortable.

I am flying Norwegian from Gatwick to JFK on April 29th. They have sold the flight to Hi Fly Air. Has anyone ever flown or heard of them? Also what size overhead bag is 55x40x23 cm? 16 in? 20 inch?

Update on my initial entry.
Daughter-in-law did indeed attempt to fly this route in January. Took two full days. They cancelled flight because incoming prior flight never got off ground. Did not inform her until 4 hours prior, on their way to Newark (even though they surely knew this at least 10 hours in advance). Offered to rebook her to Copenhagen on a flight they invented that night, with a plane flown in as this flight did not exist in their schedule. After extreme hassles at Norwegian counter she was put on that flight, after first being ORDERTED TO PAY forNorwegian to then fly her from Copenhagen to Rome a full day later, and surcharging her again for all her checked luggage. The invented flight that they flew a plane in for did not leave until 7 hours after initial Rome flight's scheduled departure. They apparently have been approved compensation for hotel, food, transit, the second flight and EU261 claim, waiting for bank credit. She barely made it to her first scheduled meeting for her semester abroad timely. In meantime, my son flew to visit her last week. He was informed his flight was no longer leaving from Newark, but from JFK,and they would shuttle him over. They claimed a regulatory issue. His flight was similarly delayed 7 hours from initial departure at Newark until they left JFK. He returned last night to Newark, that flight only 2 and quarter hours late. Note that in their case, this also means getting from Philadelphia to Newark.

Based on this - now 3 huge problems on 3 flights - I would never book Norwegian for a transatlantic flight.