A filing with the US Department of Transportation indicates it will avoid the major airports in New York, Florida and California, according to US website Paxex.Aero.

Instead, the site says Norse has applied to serve Fort Lauderdale and New York’s Stewart airport, 65 miles north of Manhattan. Both airports were formerly used by Norwegian Air, which Norse aims to replace, although Norwegian’s main New York destination was JFK.

Norse has also applied to serve Ontario international airport, 38 miles east of Los Angeles, which was not served by Norwegian.

The airline’s initial route filing is from Oslo, with no mention of which destinations it will offer from Gatwick when it begins operations there. TTG has asked Norse for more details.

Meanwhile, the carrier has made three appointments. Andrew Hodges joins as chief commercial officer and Adrian Keating as vice-president, sales, marketing and distribution. Kamal Lad will join as vice-president network and revenue management.

Hodges and Lad were formerly with Norwegian, while Keating joins from Air Transat.

Norse founder and chief executive Bjorn Tore Larsen said: “Andy brings with him decades of commercial, strategic and leadership experience from international aviation.”

Hodges added: “I am thrilled to join the Norse team at this monumental time for international aviation. Being a part of building a brand-new long-haul airline that from next summer will offer affordable flights between Europe and the US from scratch is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”