Norwegian Air Shuttle Reviews
Norwegian Air Shuttle Reviews
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, trading as Norwegian, is the third largest low-cost carrier in Europe, the second-largest airline in Scandinavia, and the ninth-largest airline in Europe in terms of passenger numbers. It offers a high-frequency domestic flight schedule within Scandinavia and to business destinations such as London, as well as to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands, transporting 17.7 million people in 2012.
As of September 2013, Norwegian operates 78 aircraft of which all are Boeing 737s, and is known for its distinctive livery of white with a red nose, with individual portraits of noteworthy Scandinavians on the tail fin. The airline has bases at Oslo (OSL), Copenhagen (CPH), Stockholm (ARN), Helsinki (HEL), London (LGW), Málaga (AGP), Las Palmas (LPA), Alicante (ALC), Bergen (BGO), Trondheim (TRD), Stavanger (SVG), Tenerife (TFS) (opening February 2014) and Madrid (opening June 2014). Norwegian launched its long-haul operation in May 2013, although the long-haul flights are not operated by Norwegian Air Shuttle itself but rather by its subsidiary company Norwegian Long Haul. Norwegian Long Haul is a separate business entity and does not share the same AOC as Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Domestic, intra-Scandinavian and typical European business and leisure destinations have the most frequencies. The busiest routes in Norwegians network are the Oslo to Bergen and the Oslo to Trondheim routes with 13 daily round-trips. Norwegian’s largest non-Scandinavian operation is to London Gatwick with up to 24 daily round-trips. Typical leisure destinations in Southern Europe are typically served once or twice a day from the main Scandinavian cities. Norwegian’s longest Boeing 737 route is from Oslo to Dubai, a distance of 5,133 kilometres, which is also the second longest scheduled 737 route in the world.
Norwegian serves Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for both business and leisure markets. In total the airline operates 382 routes to 121 destinations in 32 countries on four continents.
