Union funded fuss
This whole issue is being driven the Airline union in the US they have have paid out in 'election campaign funds' $203,000 to secure backing in the lower house to block Norwegian approval of NAI route licences.
The fact is the US administration know there are no legitimate grounds to block this application, if they were, they would have done so by now!!
Norwegian is fully compliant with the European requirement for open skies and law makers both sides of the pond know it
Norwegians progress will be at the expense of others and they will succeed or fail on the quality and value for money they provide. London is the big test they need to attract passengers who are not Scandinavians (predisposed to flying with Norwegian) to a brand that is not well know globally or even nationally outside of the LGW catchment area, there will be feed traffic from Norwegians network with transit facilities but 90%+ will start/end the flight at LGW
Last edited by LNIDA; 20th Jun 2014 at 07:29.