Sure, here is the opinion of Willie Walsh:
However, Walsh was quick to point out that the low-cost long-haul model pioneered by Norwegian was still very much a great idea.
“There is a profitable niche there, and we are going to serve it,” he says. “We are committed to expanding Level. It is performing very well in the markets it is operating in.”
LEVEL is attempting to replicate the success of Norwegian.
At the end of the discussion, Walsh did seem to be a little jealous of what Norwegian CEO, Bjorn Kjos, had been able to pull off (and how Norwegian was really biting at the heels of British Airways on some routes).
“He’s proven, if not to everybody but certainly to us, that the market exists and the customer will embrace the business model.”
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