Norwegian Air Shuttle has announced it will take up competition with national carrier SAS on the Norwegian domestic routes.
After SAS bought Braathens there has been no other carriers on the Norwegian domestic market, and prices has soared.
Norwegian will service routes from Oslo to Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø, and is already operating a Stavanger-Newcastle service.
They have announced prices that are in the no frills class, and have already taken over deals with several large corporations, and the government.
To celebrate this they have introduced a new look for their aircraft, featuring pictures of famous Norwegians on the tail, including Thor Heyerdahl, Roald Amundsen and Sonja Henie.
You can see the (computer made) pictures at:
http://www.norwegian.no/frame.asp?page=bilder-fly.asp
The text says the pictures are free to use for media reporting on the airline.
By: skog - 8th August 2002 at 07:02
RE: Norwegian
SAS own Widerøe as well.
The problem is that the Norwegian domestic market was never big enough to support two airlines, you had lots of flights departing at the same time and they were both half full.
But since SAS has extortionate prices, i think this Norwegian venture will fare incredibly well. SAS’s future in Norway look gloomy to say the least.
The government has even made deals with them for the domestic flights, and Danish No-frills company Stirling from Oslo to Copenhagen, a route that is extremely busy.
By: A330Crazy - 7th August 2002 at 19:03
RE: Norwegian
Got to be for money reasons Mongu?
By: mongu - 7th August 2002 at 18:41
RE: Norwegian
So Braathens (SAS) are leasing aircraft to a new competitor? I wonder why.
By: Saab 2000 - 7th August 2002 at 16:27
RE: Norwegian
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 07-08-02 AT 04:28 PM (GMT)]As well as flying on Norwegian domestic flights they hope to expand on the European market.Their fleet is 6x B737-300:
3x leased from Transavia
2x leased from Braathens
1x leased from Boeing
By: KabirT - 7th August 2002 at 15:57
RE: Norwegian
thanx for the news….pics are already up and A330crazy posted one oon the worst c/s thread. You say when after SAS ate Brathens…no domestic airline. What about Widerøes Flyveselskap?
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August 7, 2002 at 2:10 pm