Easyjet will fly daily between Gatwick and Bergen from May 20, marking the first Norwegian route for the no-frills carrier.
Flights will depart Gatwick at 14.10 (Monday to Friday), 07.50 on Saturday and 14.55 on Sunday, arriving into Bergen at 17.05, 10.45 and 17.50 respectively.
The return leg will leave the western Norwegian city at 17.35 (Monday to Friday), 11.15 (Saturday) and 18.20 on Sunday, landing back into London at 18.35, 12.15 and 19.20 respectively.
The new route coincides with an increase in capacity on Easyjet’s Gatwick-Copenhagen route, which will move from three to four times-daily from May 24.
Easyjet UK director Paul Simmons said: “The addition of Bergen will see Easyjet flying more than half a million passengers between the UK and Scandinavia, and will take the total number of routes served from Gatwick to 101 across 27 countries.”
Easyjet will be going head-to-head on the Gatwick-Bergen route with Norwegian, while BA flies to the city from Heathrow (a former Bmi route). SAS has previously offered flights from Gatwick to Bergen, but switched these to Manchester from January 2012.
Norwegian announced plans in October to expand operations at Gatwick airport, which is Easyjet’s largest hub.
The carrier will operate 145 non-stop flights from the Sussex airport to 21 destinations from April 1, increasing to 320 weekly flights from late summer, when it will have four aircraft based at Gatwick.
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