I have such an agency contract.
If Norwegian owns the agency, Kjos is technically fulfilling his June 1 letter to the DoT to offer "employment with a company in the Norwegian Group".
Under this new scheme, will pilots and cabin crew have the right to collective union agreement and representation directly with Norwegian, or only with its subsidiary agency? - which then leases the crew back to various Norwegian Group airlines under separate contracts. The term 'smoke and mirrors' comes to mind. A UK AOC has no bearing on the Kjos labor model his US opponents object to.
Similarly, I have highlighted reasons why it is unlikely the US Permit will be issued anytime soon, if at all. In the history of the Open Skies Agreement, no other application has taken so long to consider.
Don't pay too much attention to gossip from the Belgrano, they're still trying to figure out their Just Culture policy.