It just got easier to visit Greece from the United States. Norse Atlantic Airways, a low-cost airline based in Oslo, Norway, announced a new route between New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) and Athens International Airport in Greece on Wednesday. The flight will operate five times per week from May 30, 2024 through Oct. 26, 2024, the airline shared withTravel + Leisure. The new flight has a duration of 9 hours and 35 minutes. Currently, the airline operates service between New York and Athens with a stopover in London’s Gatwick airport for a total duration of 18 hours. “This launch underscores our commitment to meeting the evolving travel needs of our passengers," Norse Atlantic Airways’ CEO and Founder Bjorn Tore Larsen said in a statement shared with T+L. «We believe this route will not only cater to the demand for travel to Greece but will also create opportunities for cultural exchange and business collaborations between these two vibrant destinations,”
Combine skiing with a US road trip in the Wasatch Mountains
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Looking down from Utah’s sheer Wasatch Range, I feel relieved to have made it to the end of one of America’s most challenging roads. Rising to nearly 2,500 metres, State Route 210 is no stranger to avalanches. Snow ploughs can’t keep pace with the blizzards and cannons trigger slides to mitigate risk. Travel can be slow and unpredictable — but manage to get here, and the skiing is arguably the finest in North America.
On a steeply inclined slope facing Mount Superior, high above the canyon’s Snowbird resort, the mountains inspire a particular kind of devotion. The powder is brazenly billed ‘The Greatest Snow on Earth’ and, in an age when skiing is all about chasing the next rush, the Wasatch Range — named by the Shoshone Native American tribe — is a glimpse of America at its wildest. We stop in our tracks, and my guide Sarah Sherman explains that the valley offers what locals call ‘country club skiing’. “The road’s closed so often for avalanche blasting, it’s almost like this is a private resort,” she says. “Pretty sweet, right?”.
For decades, the big-ticket resorts of Colorado and California have dominated the US winter sports landscape thanks to better infrastructure and investment. Now, those in Wasatch are offering a new proposition: a road trip through obscure towns with few facilities — but ones with access to some of the largest terrain in North America. Record snowfall has become Utah’s calling card, and powder conditions are especially favourable in the climate bubble created by the Wasatch. The scientific term is ‘flotation’: the weather west of the Rockies causes lighter flurries to fall on a heavier snow base, while the area’s unique meteorology coughs up lightly spinning, almost weightless powder.
The off-radar Wasatch towns might seem an intimidating payoff, but the appeal lies in their variety. Between saddles of unbroken snow, different realities can be found an hour or two apart — as well as Snowbird, there’s Alta (skiers only), Brighton (grungy), Solitude (challenging), Park City (swaggering), Deer Valley (upscale and also newsworthy since this year’s Gwyneth Paltrow court case) and Mayflower Mountain Resort (opening 2024). While different, all are representative of a state that’s at its best when experienced outdoors.
Two days later, we pack up our gear and drive north to Huntsville in the Ogden Valley, a frontier town ringed by white hills where — on clear nights — stars dazzle like a glitter ball. At no-frills Powder Mountain, the pistes are deserted; there’s a sense of infinite space. Pine glades funnel into wide basins, and when the handful of goggle-tanned locals gather at the base lifts, there’s no queue scrabbles, only smug smiles and unspoken nods.
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