About the same price as a train from Manchester to London…

From April, budget airline WOW Air will be jetting from London Stansted to New York JFK – with fares from just £99 quid (including taxes and charges) each way if you fly between April and June or during September and October next year.

This is less than the taxes on a usual long-haul flight to the States, so is an unbelievably good deal. But obviously, not all tickets will be at this price so as soon as you’ve finished reading this article you better get booking.

As always, the planes go via Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, which is no bad thing if you fancy a stop off in a very cool city on the way to the Big Apple. 

“The airline will begin flying to JFK in spring 2018, with the inaugural flight departing on 26 April. Flights will operate seven days a week,” WOW said in a statement.

Skúli Mogensen, founder of WOW air, added: “We are proud to constantly be lowering fares across the Atlantic, enabling more people to fly in our brand new aircraft and to experience the world.

“Air Passenger Duty in the UK is one of the highest in the world and we would love to change this. These low fares make a statement and allow our passengers to fly affordably.“

Sounds like a good deal to us.