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Aug 11, 2023 (newstodate): Since May 15, 2023, Atlantic Airways has accepted bookings on the airline's first-ever scheduled service from Vagar Airport to New York Stewart International Airport with the opening flight on August 22, 2023.
   The flight schedule has comprised one weekly rotation with Airbus A320neo aircraft till October 4, 2023.
   According to Faroese media citing the airline's CEO, Johanna a Berghi, the reception in the market has however not lived up to expectations, forcing the airline to cut so far one of the planned six rotations on the route.  
   Originally, hopes were to start services from Vagar Airport to New York already from September 2019 including a series of 4-6 rotations with Airbus A320neo aircraft pending full authorizations by the government bodies involved.
   This did not materialize, however, due to late delivery of the first Airbus A320neo, but Atlantic Airways also did not get the Foreign Carrier Permit to introduce the flights in time.
   Later, hopes were to start flights to the USA at least before Christmas 2019 - but the DOT approvals did not arrive until December 2019 - and revised plans for a start of the US flights in 2020 were soon overtaken by the Covid-10 pandemic that brought all flight operations to a stand-still.
   In the fleet of Atlantic Airways are now two Airbus A320ceo and two Airbus A320neo.