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News
Norwegian’s US flight attendants join unions
Flight attendants at Norwegian and Norwegian Air International (NAI) in the USA have elected to join unions, even as labour groups maintain their opposition to the low-cost carrier’s "flag of convenience" model.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: IAG's Level goes head-to-head with Norwegian
IAG has signalled that it is aiming to compete head-on with low-cost operator Norwegian with its newly-unveiled budget carrier Level.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Yield woes belie profitable 2016 for Europe's carriers
Europe’s airlines were largely profitable on an operating level in 2016, as low fuel prices and a strong focus on cost-cutting helped them to eke out profits, despite a tough yield environment.
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American and United happy to compete with 'clever' Norwegian
American Airlines and United Airlines are happy to compete with Norwegian’s expansion to the USA, which their chief executives say is simply using a "clever" business strategy - and not subsidies - to lower costs.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Norwegian gambles on new transatlantic 737 flights
The prevailing wisdom for flying across the North Atlantic is that a route needs to serve a hub or major city, say New York-Manchester or Paris-Pittsburgh, to succeed.
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NewsNorwegian transatlantic 737 flights to begin in June
Norwegian will begin its long-planned transatlantic Boeing 737 Max service in June, when it connects Hartford, Newburgh Stewart and Providence to five cities across Ireland and the UK.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: V1EWPoint - a review of 2016 and how this year will be different
At first glance, 2017 looks like it will be a tough year. Demand outlook indicators have largely turned from green to amber as we see the potential slowing of the demand cycle. Traffic growth will also be lower in 2017 than 2016, with Airlines facing cost increases from fuel prices ...
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary
What is the greatest threat facing Ryanair? For chief executive Michael O'Leary, it's not the risk of creeping protectionism across Europe post-Brexit, or overcapacity in the short-haul market, or the challenge posed by disintermediators. Rather, it lies closer to home, he suggests – in characteristically robust language.
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Expanding Norwegian's full-year profit surges
Budget carrier Norwegian has turned in a strong full year, with a four-fold increase in operating profit to NKr1.8 billion ($218 million) and a net profit of more than NKr1.1 billion.
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Air Baltic expects 2016 profit of near-double-digit euro millions
Air Baltic chief executive Martin Gauss has predicted that the Latvian carrier will achieve an almost "double digit" euro-million profit for the full year.
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Long-haul, low-cost to become 'significant' part of IAG: Walsh
Long-haul, low-cost flights will become a “significant part of IAG”, with budget flights from Barcelona just the start of the airline group’s ambitions, its chief executive Willie Walsh says.
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Norwegian of ‘huge’ economic interest to USA: White House
Norwegian’s plans to expand with its Irish subsidiary Norwegian Air International got a boost from the White House today, with press secretary Sean Spicer saying the US has a “huge economic interest” in the growth.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why Norwegian is setting the airline agenda in 2017
Norwegian has so far defied scepticism about its branding, the scale of its aircraft orders and its embrace of the low-cost long-haul model, to become one of the most influential airlines operating today.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Risk of Brexit pratfalls if ECAA deal not reached
As the UK nears the triggering of Article 50, beginning the two-year notice period for its exit from the European Union, a group of aviation legal professionals has outlined the potential negative consequences for airlines and the wider industry of the country leaving the European Common Aviation Area.
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NewsSouthwest jockeys with Norwegian for 737 Max launch title
Southwest Airlines chief executive Gary Kelly says the carrier will be the launch customer of the Boeing 737 Max “regardless of when we take the first delivery”, even as Norwegian prepares to be the first operator.
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BA to cut two Spanish routes from London City
British Airways is axing flights to Madrid and Alicante from London City.
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Ryanair leads European LCCs' traffic gains in 2016
EasyJet and Ryanair have both disclosed strong jumps in traffic for December, underlining a year of rapid growth by Europe's low-cost sector carriers overall and at the Irish operator in particular.
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DOT finalises approval for Norwegian Air International
US regulators have finalised their approval for a foreign air carrier permit to Norwegian Air International, ending one of the most controversial disputes that have dominated the US airline industry in recent years.
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EC takes Norwegian US rights dispute to arbitration
Europe has formally pushed to arbitration its concerns over the US failure to approve Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: New narrowbodies' long-haul challenge to widebodies
Airlines appear to be increasingly interested in using new-generation narrowbodies to make thinner long-haul routes more economically viable.