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I think we are saying more or less the same thing, costs in Norway dictate the salary and up to a point within country it makes no odd's it's just more noughts on the end, the problem comes when any service is either imported or more importantly exported, unless you have very very high productivity, so if your SAS paying cabin crew costs Norwegian style then your cost base will always be far higher than an Asian based carrier, fuel, aircraft lease rates, and to a lesser extent pilot wages a level playing field, taxes are not, social costs, pensions,if any are not level, so you need an edge. O'leary was not wrong when he said that only in Norway would Norwegian be considered a low cost airline, its a little tongue in cheek though, he knows that with production capped for core more or less that any growth will come a lower cost than if the same growth were to come from Scandi land.
Yes the contractors package is less than core, but it is better than Ryanair/Jet2 in money terms alone and they treat you like adults, you are in good hotels on night stops, provided with crew meals on longer duty day, which most are and the aircraft are well spec'd and of course new out of the production line, EFB makes for a very easy end of day sign out, by the time the last passenger is off so are you all signed out no walk to the crew room, just the car park.
So lets hope the NLH gets sorted, i'd certainly be interested.
Last edited by LNIDA; 21st Jul 2013 at 17:12.