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Anyone who’s been hunting for fares to Europe lately may have stumbled across a few strange new names in their searches. Inspired by the success of upstart Norwegian Air, the basic formula goes like this: small, ambitious airline buys big planes and launches flights across the pond with prices so low they look like typos. The newest one debuts next spring: Danish carrier Primera Air plans to launch flights from Newark and Boston to London Stansted, Birmingham and Paris; recently it was hawking one-way fares of $99. Too good to be true? Like Norwegian, Primera will charge for everything that isn’t nailed down—in this…