Actually they done nothing wrong, unfortunately most Americans are fairly ignorant when it comes to affairs outside of uncle Sam's back yard, most couldn't even place Norway on a map!!
Much of the union hype against Norwegian centres on so called by passing of Norway's labour laws, its not the laws that's the problem its social and employments costs in Norway that are eye watering, to put it in simple American terms we pay around $50000 pa to kids flipping burgers at the M add social taxes and the cost to the employers is around $90k, put simply if we employed all our employee's on Norwegian soil we'd be bust and Boeing would be down on 16 787 sales 100 B738 sales 150 B738MAX sales and options for another 100.....
Our worst paid staff are probably Spanish cabin crew, they earn less than the Thai cabin crew and way less than the American cabin crew, but that is supply and demand due to very high unemployment levels in Spain.
Off course its not all roses in the Norwegian garden, but there are far far worse companies to work for in Europe and if the Americans want to study convoluted employment methods they should look no further than Boeings biggest 738 customer based in, yep Ireland, when they start flying long haul and they will then you won't know what hit you.
So it seems that the DoT now have the fudge needed
Russian overflight wet lease.
SAS made a big fuss last year about knocking Norwegian's so called environmentally friendly B787 by pointing out that because the B787 we're in effect wet leased from NLH to NAS they couldn't overfly Russian airspace and the extra track miles flown by NAS/NLH aircraft offset any emission saving advantage that Norwegian had over SAS's much older long haul aircraft
