Safety is paramount in this industry no where more so than in Europe & North America and the safety stats prove this.
This same argument was played out over Ryanair's rapid growth, but those in the know, know that FR have very high safety standards. Its no different with NAS, they don't just take anybody and even some they do take don't make the grade.
Everyone joining (all type rated) will do an absolute minimum of 40 sectors before going on to do a four sector final line check and a lot of further training if to operate to Northern Norway.
Comparison with KIA & BMW is laughable, BMW are good cars for sure, but are very expensive cars in no small part due to very high labour costs in German and social taxes, they do or did make them in South Africa, just has JLR plan to make cars in South America and India
It is social taxation that is killing Europe, Europe is 7% of the worlds population, produces 25% of the worlds GP and 50% of the worlds benefit payments.
America, the land of the free market and protectionism
One could also say that given the very high salaries paid to pilots and cabin crew in Norway (including Norwegian) that the US carries flying to this part of Scandinavia are involved in social dumping because their salaries and living standards are so much lower ??
Just a union freebie