New long-haul startup Norse Atlantic Airways aims to begin selling tickets at the end of March, with a targeted second-quarter launch of transatlantic service to the U.S.

U.S. aviation industry stakeholders have spent the better part of a year collectively pushing the U.S. government, specifically the Justice Department (DOJ), to step up prosecution of unruly airline passengers.

The merger would create the largest ULCC in the Americas through a combined fleet that could inch close to 500 Airbus narrowbodies during the next five years.