Norwegian

By David Casey
A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports seek to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports begin to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle has changed its employment model for U.S., UK and Spanish pilots and cabin crew. Previously, the estimated 3,000 personnel
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle has accused Boeing of “gross negligence” and “clumsy production” in a lawsuit in which the LCC is claiming damages to compensate for the grounding of the 737 MAX and 787 engine troubles, Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv has reported.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
ULCC Norwegian has issued notice to Boeing of its intention to cancel orders for 92 737 MAX and five 787s, together with the GoldCare service agreements accompanying all of the aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Norwegian Air Shuttle will resume flights on 76 routes in Europe halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back 12 aircraft into service.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
An increase in consumer interest in flights to leisure resorts has encouraged ULCC Norwegian to restore no fewer than 76 routes to its network next month and more than double the number of aircraft in service.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
American Airlines is dropping Oakland International from its route network.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) may require a further injection of funds before the end of the year, Bernstein Research believes, after the carrier posted its 2020 first quarter (Q1) results.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Norwegian Air Shuttle has won shareholder approval to convert a large slab of debt to equity, a result that makes the ULCC eligible to receive more financial aid from the Norwegian government.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle said it expects to remain grounded until April 2021 as it set out a debt-for-equity conversion plan to avoid running out of cash by mid-May.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Routes' weekly update on how airlines and airports across Europe are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle said its pilot and cabin crew subsidiaries in Sweden and Denmark were filing for bankruptcy, in the latest casualty of the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle is calling a May 4 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to seek shareholder approval for plans that would convert debt to equity to meet the requirements of a Norwegian state guarantee program and boost its balance sheet.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
LCC Norwegian has moved swiftly to access an initial tranche of state-backed aid, to enable it to negotiate the current financial crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Norwegian is taking its most dramatic action yet in its effort to deal with the latest U.S. imposed travel restrictions and the fall in demand for transatlantic services.
Airlines & Lessors

Carriers on both sides of the Atlantic are assessing the potential impact of the temporary travel restrictions to the US from more than two-dozen European countries in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Norwegian and Air France are altering their networks in response to the demand slump caused by the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Weekly capacity between New York and Manchester during the summer is set to drop by a third compared with 2019, but United Airlines is awaiting price stabilization before deciding whether to expand.
Airports & Networks

By Aaron Karp
Sen. Schumer contacted Aer Lingus, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Scandinavian LCC switches its focus to San Francisco.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The second part of our review of 2019 features the demise of Thomas Cook; World Routes 2019 in Adelaide: Delta's deal with LATAM; and Wizz Air's plans to launch an airline in the United Arab Emirates.
Airports & Networks