Wow Air to launch £120 route to Pittsburgh
Budget carrier Wow Air starts route to former steel city – the birthplace of Andy Warhol. Is this the next cool US break?
NEW York? New yawn, more like. Pittsburgh is looking like the next US city break with a bit of an edge, and you can get there on the cheap next year.
Budget Icelandic carrier Wow Air – which stops off in Reykjavic on its transatlantic flights – has announced fares from Gatwick and Edinburgh from £120 each way. The first takes off on June 16, book quick at wowair.co.uk if you want to catch a bargain.
And what can you expect to find there?
Home of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, it is a fine if rather gritty little city; a former industrial powerhouse at the confluence of three rivers.
: the actress made an unfavourable and rather unimaginative play on the city’s name while doing a spot of filming there, while suggesting she may prefer to be back in New York.
But that just goes to show how little she knows.
There’s a resurgent downtown area and plenty of waterfront, but in place of heavy industry is a thriving arts district and a growing culinary scene. It is also the home of Heinz, in all of its 57 varieties.
Think Brooklyn before it got too cool for school: a workaday American city; not yet and not likely to be overrun by tourists. Now is a good time to see it.
If that doesn’t seal it, pop art legend Andy Warhol was born and raised here. He may have moved to New York but plenty of his work stayed behind: see it at the Andy Warhol museum in the North Shore district:
