In my opinion there are a lot of pointers towards an aquisition by a larger group, perhaps IAG 😏

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The pony is dead, stop flogging it.

Pathetic.
All you naysayers and doom merchants, I really hope you all fall on your arses one day.
We as Pilots and professionals should be supporting and rallying one another, not wishing failure and making pseudo predictions of what might or should happen.
But i guess this is the world we now live in. It’s all about me.....😡

My gripe is not with the reporting of news, I agree it’s a forum FOR such discussion.
It’s those that sit in their ivory towers wishing others to fail. They spout their ilinformed style of horse 💩 about what will or should happen. If you’re that clued up in aviation business, why are you not running an airline yourselves?
But those who can DO, those who can’t.....

That’s not the motivation for the type of post and referring to and you know it.

IAG said a few days ago that they will not be taking part in a bidding war to acquire NAS. So does yesterdays news mean then that someone else has made an better offer? Lufthansa or Qatar?

Not according to the share price

Pulling on the heart strings is all well and good, but the fact is Norweigian have come along with a business model which, whilst it’s backers keep throwing good money after bad, is unsustainably undercutting many of the airlines the rest of us work for. That leads to managers elsewhere to spy an opportunity to make the ‘we must compete’ noises which in turn leads to a constant fight to maintain what we have, and in many cases worsening terms and conditions for the rest of us.

I’ve been in the position of having ‘that’ letter at least 3 times but I was lucky enough to escape the chop. I know how horrible it is. Whilst I feel sorry for the employees, I won’t shed a tear when Norweigian disappears. Hopefully all the pilots can get jobs with sustainable companies that are actually profitable and give their employees a reasonable level of job security.

That proves that probably many of the Norwegian bashers here just feel insecure because of the expansion rate Norwegian have had. I personally think they are here to stay. whether alone or that someone else buys and uses their brand, time will tell.

From my point of view, not remotely insecure, just sick of fly-by-night companies with unsustainable businesses who end up with a load of people losing their jobs and all the upheaval & uncertainty that brings.

The last 20yrs particularly have been littered with airlines like these, and the cycle just goes on and on.

Sadly the industry is full of pilots who’ve had the misfortune of bouncing from one bankrupt carrier to the next. It’s depressing to see it likely happening again.

I doubt this is the case. Perhaps this could conceivably be the case if Norwegian were very successful. But they are not, they are just high profile disruptors of a market segment with an underperforming model, being propped up by exogenous funding. I hope for the sake of the employees that the management can make the necessary changes to the business model before liquidity becomes an issue.

With no certainty of employment past September an exodus of DUB based crew over the Summer is inevitable.
I understand Ryanair have included an option to input your previous staff number on their application form.
If crew shortfall leads to operational cancellations in the Summer then customer confidence will plummet. I hope there is some element of contingency plan to address this.

As Focus2019 launches, a very genuine best to all concerned, no one wants to see crew unemployed, why?
Because it isn’t in any of our interests to have qualified pilots unemployed.