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Iceland's Low-Cost Carrier Wow Air Is Bringing Cheap Flights to New York

Brian Sumers

Photo Credit: Wow Air, founded by by entrepreneur Skuli Mogensen in 2011, is expanding to Newark. Wow Air

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Deal seekers, rejoice. New Yorkers now have a new cheap way to reach Europe. But don't expect it to be comfortable.

Wow Air, the irreverent Icelandic discount airline known for its low fares and bare bones service, is expanding to New York City. The company said Wednesday it will fly daily between Newark Liberty International Airport and Reykjavik beginning in November. In adding New York, Wow Air, which already serves Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore and Los Angeles, is following a model used successfully for decades by Icelandic Airlines and its successor, Icelandair. Reykjavik is a p

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