Norwegian Air Shuttle
In the laat year or so, the more I read about Norwegian, the more I think of Air Berlin in about 2006. Company that is succesful in its core market which gets over confident in its business model and management and starts dabbling in lots of new business areas where it faces tougher competition all at the same time.
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From what i've read its seem that Norwegian Long Haul is a separate company from Norwegian Air shuttle, but i do take your point however to date they don't seem to have put a foot wrong and clearly have to grow outside of its home turf with the number of aircraft on order.
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david,
as a NAS employee I hope of course your misgivings are unfounded, they are however shared by a few of us.
Time will tell, although the long-haul business model is a bit different to what Air Berlin tried to achieve, and every effort is being made to do it "on the cheap" (as anyone applying for 787 jobs will confirm
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Hopefully the cost of the Duracell saga is Boeings problem, although I fear we haven't seen the last of 787 "glitches".
as a NAS employee I hope of course your misgivings are unfounded, they are however shared by a few of us.
Time will tell, although the long-haul business model is a bit different to what Air Berlin tried to achieve, and every effort is being made to do it "on the cheap" (as anyone applying for 787 jobs will confirm
)Hopefully the cost of the Duracell saga is Boeings problem, although I fear we haven't seen the last of 787 "glitches".
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The DY game plan has never been built on a SAS collaps, but DY has had contingency plans ready in case competing airlines have to make deep cuts or even go out of business. The Cimber Sterling collaps in May 2012 triggered one of these plans. A SAS collaps on the other hand would have been utterly chaotic for Scandinavia. Norwegian would only have been able to cover for very small portion with their contingency plan. I think DY prefer to have SK as their prime opponent than other more difficult opponents.If we look at DY's growth the last ten year and compare these numbers with SAS, DY grew with over 17 million passengers (yearly rolling) while at the same time growth of SAS over ten last years was only a measly 100 000 passengers.
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Well we find out soon enough with long haul only a few days away now, but of course on an elderly A340, it will provide some very interesting cost data for those with access in terms of A340 V B787.
In the meantime it looks like the Red Nosed B787 will be visiting some European airports as part of its shake down and crew training.
The whole low cost long haul debate is a red herring, no pun intended! few who who have travelled with Norwegian would describe it as low cost and that reflects in the high level of repeat business.
The Norwegian website shows some very good graphics of the interior of the B738 and the premium seating looks good value when compared with others, of course Norway is a extremely wealthy country and the brand is very well known.
They have of course taken a lot on this year with new bases in ALC LGW TFS in addition to long haul and recently the launch of Norwegian Cargo, the banking side of the company is also expanding into Sweden, this coming winter will be very important to NAS with substantial expansion on its key winter route to the Canary Isle's
In the meantime it looks like the Red Nosed B787 will be visiting some European airports as part of its shake down and crew training.
The whole low cost long haul debate is a red herring, no pun intended! few who who have travelled with Norwegian would describe it as low cost and that reflects in the high level of repeat business.
The Norwegian website shows some very good graphics of the interior of the B738 and the premium seating looks good value when compared with others, of course Norway is a extremely wealthy country and the brand is very well known.
They have of course taken a lot on this year with new bases in ALC LGW TFS in addition to long haul and recently the launch of Norwegian Cargo, the banking side of the company is also expanding into Sweden, this coming winter will be very important to NAS with substantial expansion on its key winter route to the Canary Isle's
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The whole low cost long haul debate is a red herring, no pun intended! few who who have travelled with Norwegian would describe it as low cost and that reflects in the high level of repeat business.
They're aiming for a cost base as cheap as chips. They're a bit young to be doing a QANTAS vs Jetstar trick but already we see two companies and pay scales. The B787s aren't even being flown by DY.
B787 Captains Norwegian Long Haul A/S - Rishworth Aviation
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German Sunshine Routes
Reported on ARD text this morning that Norwegian are expaning into Germany from this Autumn with routes to the Canaries and Med. destinations.
Report doesn't speculate on which German airports will benefit, and whether the aircraft will be away based.
Report doesn't speculate on which German airports will benefit, and whether the aircraft will be away based.
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Well the on board product wont suffer because of the remuneration of the cabin crew or the fight deck, many of Norwegians flights are conducted by non Norwegians both for and aft of the cockpit door.
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Norwegians 7th 737-800 delivery this year arrived a couple of days ago new from the factory, with a further 7 new 737-800's due this years taking the fleet to 75 now and 82 by year end plus 3 dream-liners by year end.
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Norwegian reports 22% increase in passengers numbers YoY for May with load factor up slightly and yield down slightly, capacity up 34% only one long haul flight operated in May.
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Notice DY have registered their first B787 as EI-LNA, that will go down well in Norway!
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mikkie4, EI-LNA will fly OSL-AGP-OSL-LGW-OSL on that Sunday, actually every Sunday between 4 Jul and 4 Aug.
Norwegian's one month long Dreamtour include flights from Oslo to the following destination:
Alicante - Mondays and Fridays
Barcelona - Mondays and Fridays
London/Gatwick - Thursdays and Sundays
Malaga - all days except Monday and Friday
Nice - Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
Norwegian's one month long Dreamtour include flights from Oslo to the following destination:
Alicante - Mondays and Fridays
Barcelona - Mondays and Fridays
London/Gatwick - Thursdays and Sundays
Malaga - all days except Monday and Friday
Nice - Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
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Want to know more about Norwegian's strategy? Watch the video below (English subtitles provided)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i5eWtViYSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i5eWtViYSY
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Norwegian wins Skytrax award for best LoCo in Europe
Norwegian is named Europe's best low-cost carrier by renowned Skytrax World Airline Awards. It is the passengers themselves who evaluates over 200 airlines worldwide in what is described as the most prestigious awards recognized in the airline industry. CEO Bjørn Kjos accepted the award during the Paris Air Show Tuesday morning.