Norwegian Air Shuttle
8 bases
Norwegian Air Shuttle, the outer appearance also norwegian.com, is a Norwegian low-cost airline based in Bærum - Fornebu near Oslo. You currently maintains eight European bases and leads to both short - and long-haul flights.
History
Norwegian Air Shuttle took over since its creation on January 22, 1993 Norwegian regional flights for Braathens. These services were discontinued on 31 March 2003. In September 2002, the Company started with a cheap flight concept between Oslo Airport Gardermoen and Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø used with acquired Boeing 737-300. On 5 April 2003, the airline service has been added to destinations in Spain and Portugal, also in April 2003 led Norwegian own regional flights with Fokker 50 in northern Norway by. In the summer of the Norwegian airports in Alta, Harstad / Narvik, Bodø and Ålesund, and international airports in London - Stansted and Stockholm Arlanda were added. In December 2003 Norwegian Air Shuttle went public.
In April 2007, the Swedish airline FlyNordic of Norwegian Air Shuttle has been completely taken over. Since April 2008, this is no longer a separate entity, but only operates flights on behalf of the parent company under the new name Norwegian.se by.
In a press statement Norwegian Air Shuttle has announced in late 2010 that Norwegian.com new routes within Finland will offer and that received by Helsinki - Vantaa flights to eleven holiday destinations such as Nice, Rome, London and Barcelona.
In May 2011 the company took an order for three Boeing 787-8 from Icelandair, which from August 2013 long-range goals are to be served. Norwegian announced in August 2011 to close its base on the Moss, Rygge airport and until January 2012 to cease all connections from there.
In 2012 it was announced that Norwegian open a base in Bangkok, where Boeing wants to station 787-8 in order to avoid high labor costs in Norway. It was also for the spring of 2013, the opening of two new bases in Alicante and London and thus first announced outside Scandinavia.
For the implementation of long-haul flights from April 2013 Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian subsidiary founded the Long Haul A / S, which operates both the long-haul fleet, as well as the flights carried out on behalf of the parent company.
Norwegian offered as first airline to free wireless use during flights.
Bases
Norwegian Air Shuttle currently has eight bases with a focus on Scandinavia, where employees and aircraft are stationed:
- Danemark Denmark: Copenhagen
- Finland Finland: Helsinki
- Norway Norway: Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Torp, Trondheim
- Sweden Sweden: Stockholm
- Spain: Alicante
- United Kingdom United Kingdom: London -Gatwick
Destinations
Norwegian operates from their bases in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from multiple connections within Scandinavia and flies beyond numerous cities and holiday destinations across Europe, including Paris, Rome, Rhodes, Sarajevo, Faro, Tenerife and London. Further, both Dubai and Marrakech served among others as destinations outside of Europe. Destinations in Germany are Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne -Bonn, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria and Switzerland, Geneva. An announcement by Norwegian connection from Copenhagen to Frankfurt am Main from November 2011, however, was canceled again.
From November 2013 Norwegian from Hamburg and Cologne / Bonn Alicante, Gran Canaria, Malaga and Tenerife South flies to and from Munich Alicante, Malaga and Tenerife South .. They thus expanding its involvement on routes that do not affect their home market in Scandinavia.
Since April 2013 flights are operated to New York City and Bangkok, and for the first time offered unusually long-haul flights in the history of the company and for a budget airline. For the summer schedule 2014, a development of the new long-haul routes to the destinations Los Angeles, Oakland and Orlando was announced. By August 2013, the long-range were operated with two Airbus A340- 300 by the Portuguese airline Hi Fly. Since then, the flights will be realized by the Norwegian subsidiary Long Haul with the Boeing 787-8, delivered late.
Since 2014, the route Berlin - Gran Canaria served.
Fleet
As of October 2013, the Norwegian fleet of 82 aircraft consists with an average age of 4.9 years:
Special coatings
Some of the Boeing 737-300 and -800 and 787-8 of the Norwegian carry on the vertical tail portraits of famous Scandinavian personalities.
Incidents
Norwegian Air Shuttle reported so far neither deaths nor any personal injury or aircraft losses.