Norway Airlines

Norway Airlines (temporarily doing business as Air Europe Scandinavia ) was a Norwegian airline that ceased operations in 1992.

History

Norway Airlines was established on 2 April 1987 by Norwegian investors, with the participation of the airline Ansett Australia to offer charter flights from the airports Stavanger and Bergen at the holiday destinations in the Mediterranean. The operation was admitted on 19 February in 1988 with a leased Boeing 737, the company received in the same month a second aircraft of this type, but which was rented immediately to the British airline Monarch Airlines on. After the bankruptcy of the Norwegian tour operator Sun Tours, which contributed around 60 percent for passenger traffic of the company, the remaining Boeing for Monarch Airlines ( in the sub- charter) as well as for on-demand flights used 737 ( in ad- hoc charter), for among other things transports on behalf of the International Red Cross.

In early 1989 acquired the parent company of British airline Air Europe, the International Leisure Group, a 33% stake in the company. In June 1989, Norway Airlines was integrated into the Airlines of Europe Group and changed its name to Air Europe Scandinavia. Following a name change, the two Boeing 737 the company received a British registry, making it possible to use the machine on scheduled flights between Oslo and London..

After the British parent company, on March 8, 1991 filed for bankruptcy, the flight operation was temporarily suspended. The company introduced from the end of April 1991 under the name Norway Airlines charter services through again from October 1991 and could fly to London Gatwick Airport back in regular service. The shares of the insolvent International Leisure Group were acquired in July 1991 by the Danish Sterling Airways, which also owned shares in the Swedish airline Transwede. The three airlines were planning to build a common scheduled flight network within Scandinavia and made this the Trans Nordic Group. The request, from Norway Airlines request for scheduled flights from Oslo to Copenhagen and Stockholm was rejected in December 1991 by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport. In the spring of 1992, the Company announced its two Boeing 737 returned to the lessor and then started to put two of the Transwede a leased aircraft. In the course of 1992 increased the company's losses, so that operations on 14 October 1992 has been set. The dissolution of the Company in February 1993.

Used aircraft

• Boeing 737-300 ( used from February 1988 to March 1992 )
• McDonnell Douglas MD -83 ( early 1992 leased from Transwede )
• McDonnell Douglas MD -87 ( early 1992 leased from Transwede )