IAG Picks Paris as Second Base for Discount Airline
- CEO Willie Walsh unveils plan for more transatlantic flights
- IAG’s Level to offer one-way tickets to New York for EU129
Level will progressively replace the ‘Open Skies’ brand and operate out of Paris’s Orly airport.
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British Airways owner IAG SA chose Paris as a second base for its discount airline Level, which will offer transatlantic flights to destinations like New York and the Caribbean as carriers compete to lower prices on longer routes.
Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh unveiled the plan Tuesday in the French capital, which won out over Rome for the designation. Level plans to start offering in the coming months one-way tickets from Paris to New York for 129 euros ($154) and to Montreal, Guadeloupe and Martinique for 99 euros, he said.