Fish pie in the sky!
Unlikely any Spain crew will be driving anything until after Feb 2022 according to feedback to Unions.
Norwegian will plan on only operating minimal aircraft numbers until load factors increase,
"It is not expected that demand for short-haul travel in Europe will return to 2019 levels before 2023 or 2024 and so Norwegian will deploy capacity back into the market at a pace that matches this," the airline said in a statement.
The carrier is currently operating nine aircraft, mainly on Norwegian domestic routes.
Once travel restrictions lift, it plans to ramp up operations to a peak of approximately 50 short-haul aircraft in 2021 and approximately 70 short-haul aircraft in 2022,
The PBH agreement only lasts 10 months and therefore they need to preserve cash, now forecast only 30 plus airframes working until end of 2021unless demand picks up. Let's face it, we are half way through the year, 3/4 of the way through the summer season and bookings are 10% of where they should be for most airlines.