WOW air announces flights from Dublin to US west coast

Airline WOW air has announced a new route from Dublin to the west coast of the United States.

It will begin flying the routes next summer with Los Angeles and San Francisco - both via Iceland - confirmed.

The routes will connect with daily flights to Reykjavik from Dublin allowing travel to Los Angeles four times per week and San Francisco five times a week. There will be a stopover of up to two hours in the Icelandic capital.

The routes will be serviced by three new Airbus A330-300 aircraft, the first wide-body planes in the WOW air fleet, which will each carry 340 passengers in a single-class configuration.

WOW air became the first airline to operate a direct scheduled service to Iceland from Ireland when its flights began in June this year.

The airline also operates transatlantic services from Dublin, via Reykjavik, to Boston and Washington. Those routes began last month.

Tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles will go on sale in January 2016.