Norwegian Air Shuttle
IATA DY	ICAO NAX	Callsign Nor Shuttle
Founded		1993
Hubs		Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
Focus cities		Bergen Airport, Flesland Stavanger Airport, Sola Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport
Alliance		ELFAA
Fleet size		22 plus 53 on order
Destinations		75
Headquarters		Fornebu, Norway
Key people		Bjørn Kjos (CEO)
Website: http://www.norwegian.no/

Norwegian Air Shuttle (OSE: NAS) is a Norwegian low-cost airline, with headquarters at Fornebu outside Oslo and its main base at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Norwegian Air Shuttle is also referred to as Norwegian, which is the company's commercial brand.^[1] It operates low-cost flights in Scandinavia and in Europe.^[2] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 219 pixelsFull resolution (1097 × 300 pixel, file size: 22 KB, MIME type: image/png)Norwegian Air Shuttle logo, claiming fair use. ... IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the worlds airlines in accordance with the provisions of Resolution 762. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ICAO airline code. ... Most airlines employ a distinctive and internationally recognised call sign that is normally spoken during airband radio transmissions as a prefix to the flight number. ... An airline hub is an airport that an airline uses as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination. ... The large check-in hall Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM) (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn, Gardermoen) is located in Gardermoen in Ullensaker, Norway, 48 km north of Oslo. ... In the airline industry, a focus city is a location that is not a hub, but from which the airline has flights to at least several destinations other than its hubs. ... Bergen Airport, Flesland is the airport in Bergen, Norway, located 19 km south of downtown. ... Stavanger Airport, Sola (IATA: SVG, ICAO: ENZV) (Norwegian: Stavanger lufthavn, Sola) is an international airport located in the municipality of Sola, Norway, near Stavanger. ... Airport maintenance facilities seen from runway Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Polish: ) (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA) is an international airport located in the OkÄ™cie district of Warsaw, Poland. ... An airline alliance is an agreement between two or more airlines to cooperate for the foreseeable future on a substantial level. ... ELFAA stands for Europeans Love Fruit And Air, an organization formed in 2002 to represent low-fare airlines. ... Fornebu (archaic form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, close to the countrys capital Oslo. ... Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange (Norwegian: Oslo Børs) serves as the main market for trading in shares of Norwegian companies. ... A Cebu Pacific Airbus A319 parked on the apron at Ninoy Aquino International Airport. ... Fornebu (archaic form Fornebo) is a peninsular area in the suburban municipality of Bærum in Norway, close to the countrys capital Oslo. ... County District Østlandet Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... The large check-in hall Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM) (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn, Gardermoen) is located in Gardermoen in Ullensaker, Norway, 48 km north of Oslo. ... A brand includes a name, logo, slogan, and/or design scheme associated with a product or service. ... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ...

The airline operates a fleet of 22 Boeing 737-300 aircraft. Its operational centres are in Oslo and Bergen and its technical center is at Stavanger Airport, Sola.^{[citation needed]} The Boeing 737 is the worlds most popular short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body airliner. ... County District Østlandet Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... Stavanger Airport, Sola (IATA: SVG, ICAO: ENZV) (Norwegian: Stavanger lufthavn, Sola) is an international airport located in the municipality of Sola, Norway, near Stavanger. ...

History

The airline was formed as Busy Bee Airservice in 1967. Between 1972 and 1983 it operated as Air Executive Norway and reformed as Norwegian Air Shuttle in 1993, starting operations in January 1993. In September 2002 it adopted the brand name Norwegian to concentrate on domestic low-cost operations.^[2] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) was founded in 1993 on the ruins of the bankruptcy of Busy Bee to continue the wet-leased regional flights on Braathens S.A.F.Es network on the Norwegian West Coast, serving Bergen, Haugesund, Kristiansund, Molde, Stavanger and Trondheim. The airline inherited three Fokker 50 aircraft from Busy Bee, but later also acquired three more aircraft. ^{[citation needed]} Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Braathens airline, until 1997 known as Braathens S.A.F.E or Braathens South American and Far East Air Transport A/S merged with the Norwegian part of Scandinavian Airlines to become SAS Braathens in 2004. ... County Rogaland District Haugaland Municipality NO-1106 Administrative centre Haugesund Mayor (2006) Petter Steen Jr (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 403 73 km² 68 km² 0. ... County Møre og Romsdal District Nordmøre Municipality NO-1503 Administrative centre Kristiansund Mayor (2004) Dagfinn Ripnes (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 426 23 km² 22 km² 0. ... County Møre og Romsdal District Romsdal Municipality NO-1502 Administrative centre Molde Mayor (2005) Jan Petter Hammerø (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 254 363 km² 355 km² 0. ... County District Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (1995-) Leif Johan Sevland (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ... County District Municipality NO-1601 Administrative centre Trondheim Mayor (2003-) Rita Ottervik (AP) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 258 342 km² 322 km² 0. ... Fokker 50 Fokker 50 - Royal Netherlands Air Force Fokker 50 - Ethiopian Airlines at Lalibela airport The Fokker 50 is a turboprop-powered airliner, designed as a refinement of and successor to the highly successful Fokker F27 Friendship. ...

The contract with Braathens expired in October 2003, when Braathens new owner SAS started using its fleet of Fokker 50 aircraft previously operated in Northern Norway under the SAS Commuter Norlink brand, to fly on the routes on the West Coast. But even before this the airline started some operations outside Braathens, including the previously Braathens contracted route from Stavanger to Newcastle, as well as the public service obligation from Bodø and Tromsø to Andøya, which they operated until January 1, 2003. ^{[citation needed]} Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Bombardier Q400 aircraft of Scandinavnian Commuter Swelink at Växjö-Kronoberg Airport, Sweden SAS Commuter, later branded Scandinavian Commuter was a regional airline created by Scandinavian Airlines parent companies Det Norske Luftfartsselskap, Det Danske Luftfartsselskap og Aerotransport on December 1, 1988. ... County District Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (1995-) Leif Johan Sevland (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... This article refers to Public Service Obligations in the field of Transportation. ... County Nordland District Salten Municipality NO-1804 Administrative centre Bodø Mayor (2005) Odd-Tore Fygle (Ap) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 62 1,392 km² 1,308 km² 0. ... County Troms District Municipality NO-1902 Administrative centre Tromsø Mayor (2004) Herman Kristoffersen (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 18 2,566 km² 2,519 km² 0. ... County Nordland Landscape VesterÃ¥len Municipality NO-1871 Administrative centre Andenes Mayor (2005) Jonni Helge Solsvik (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 169 656 km² 616 km² 0. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From 1 September 2002 the airline rebranded as Norwegian and started domestic flights as a low-cost carrier with six leased Boeing 737-300 aircraft, on the routes Oslo-Bergen, Oslo-Trondheim, Oslo-Tromsø and a week later on Oslo-Stavanger. For the first few months Norwegian had to wet lease three aircraft. Since then Norwegian has expanded considerably, offering a total of 55 destinations and 84 routes. is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... A Cebu Pacific Airbus A319 parked on the apron at Ninoy Aquino International Airport. ...

Norwegian was noted on Oslo Stock Exchange on 18 December 2004, with the ticker NAS. The largest owner is CEO Bjørn Kjos, who owns about one third of the company. In 2005 Norwegian Air Shuttle made a profit for the first time since Boeing 737 operations started in 2002. Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange (Norwegian: Oslo Børs) serves as the main market for trading in shares of Norwegian companies. ... is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lately the airline has opened a second hub, at Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport in Poland, flying to Central European destinations. There are 2 Boeing 737 operating from Warsaw^[3]. Airport maintenance facilities seen from runway Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Polish: ) (IATA: WAW, ICAO: EPWA) is an international airport located in the OkÄ™cie district of Warsaw, Poland. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country  Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ...

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA announced April 24, 2007 that they have bought 100% of the Swedish low cost airline FlyNordic. This makes Norwegian Scandinavia's largest low cost airline. As a result of Finnair's ownership in FlyNordic, Finnair now owns 5% of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA.^[4] is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Flynordic is an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

On August 23 2007, Norwegian announced that it will initiate scheduled operations Febrary 18 2008 from the new civilian airport Moss Airport, Rygge south of Oslo^[5]. Rygge is a military airport which will open for commercial traffic in October 2007, and will initially offer only charter flights. Lying approximately at the same distance from Oslo as the main airport Gardermoen, Rygge will probably become a strong alternative to Gardermoen, and a better alternative for the around 260 000 people^[6] living in Østfold county. Norwegian's inital 14 scheduled routes from Rygge will go to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Belgrade, Bergen, Budapest, Istanbul, London, Málaga, Marrakech, Palanga/Klaipéda, Szczecin, Valencia and Warsaw. According to a statement made to Aftenposten by Norwegian ^[7], the prices for flights from Rygge will generally be cheaper than those from Gardermoen. Moss Airport, Rygge (IATA: RYG, ICAO: ENRY) (Norwgian: Moss lufthavn, Rygge) is an international airport under construction in Rygge, Norway to be opened in October 2007. ... County District Østlandet Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Oslo Airport is located in Gardermoen in Ullensaker, Norway, 50 km north of Oslo, and is a modern, international airport with two runways. ... Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Alacant (Catalan) Spanish name Alicante Administration Country Autonomous Community Valencian Community Province Alicante Comarca Alacantí Administrative Divisions 8 Neighborhoods 42 Mayor Luis Díaz Alperi (PP) Geography Land Area 201. ... Athens is the largest and the capital city of Greece, located in the Attica periphery. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (City of Counts) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... Location of Belgrade within Serbia Coordinates: Country Serbia District City of Belgrade Municipalities 17 Government  - Mayor Nenad Bogdanović (DS) (since 2004)  - Ruling parties DS/DSS/G17+ Area  - City 3,222. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2006) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 215 465 km² 445 km² 0. ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Location of Málaga Municipality Málaga Government  - Mayor Francisco de la Torre Prados Area  - City 385. ... For the record label, see Marrakesh Records. ... Location Ethnographic region Samogitia County KlaipÄ—da County Municipality Palanga city municipality Elderate Number of elderates Coordinates General information Capital of Palanga city municipality Population (rank) 17,623 in 2001 (21st) First mentioned 1253 Granted city rights 1791 Gintaras Amber Museum in Palanga. ... Location Ethnographic region Lithuania minor County KlaipÄ—da County Municipality Geographic coordinate system Number of elderates 1 General Information Capital of KlaipÄ—da County KlaipÄ—da city municipality Population 187,316 in 2006 (3rd) First mentioned 1252 Granted city rights 1254 or 1258 (Lübeck); 1475 (Kulm) KlaipÄ—da ( (help... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name València (Valencian) Spanish name Valencia Founded 137 BC Postal code 46000-46080 Website http://www. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country  Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ... Aftenposten is Norways second largest newspaper with a circulation of 256,600 copies for the morning edition, 155,400 copies for the separate evening edition and 232,900 copies for the Sunday edition in 2003. ...

Operations

Their market share varies on the different routes, but the Oslo-Trondheim and Oslo-Bergen routes had the highest market share in 2005 with 37%.

The airline has code sharing agreements with FlyNordic (which it now owns) on the Oslo-Stockholm route, with Rossiya on the Oslo-St. Petersburg route, and with Sterling on most of their shared routes (Oslo-Copenhagen, Oslo-Nice, Oslo-Prague and more). Code sharing is a business term which first originated in the airline industry. ... Flynordic is an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Sterling Airlines A/S is a Danish airline, founded in 1994. ...

Norwegian does not own its own handling services. Only light maintenance are done by own employees. Heavy maintenance (C/D checks) and engine maintenance are put out on tender. The airline is a member of European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA). Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic checks that have to be done on all aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. ... ELFAA stands for Europeans Love Fruit And Air, an organization formed in 2002 to represent low-fare airlines. ...

Destinations

Main article: Norwegian Air Shuttle destinations

This is a list of destinations that Norwegian Air Shuttle flies to. ...

New Routes

• Oslo - Istanbul [seasonal]
• Bergen - Alicante [seasonal]
• Trondheim - Alicante [seasonal]
• Stavanger - Alicante [seasonal]
• Oslo - Moscow-Domodedovo
• Munich - Warsaw [starts October 28 ,2007]
• Oslo - London-Gatwick [starts October 28, 2007]
• Oslo - Tenerife [starts October 28 ,2007]
• Oslo – Szczecin [starts October 30, 2007]
• Oslo - Las Palmas [starts October 31,2007]
• Stavanger - Warsaw [starts October 31, 2007]
• Salzburg - Warsaw [starts December 29,2007]
• Marrakech - Menara International Airport [starts November 2007]

Fleet

Norwegian Boeing 737-300 LN-KKP Kirsten Flagstad

As of December 2006 the Norwegian Air Shuttle fleet consists of 23 Boeing 737-300^[8]. All the planes have 148 seats in one class. All but two aircraft are leased. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1658x790, 236 KB) Low-cost carrier - Norwegian (www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1658x790, 236 KB) Low-cost carrier - Norwegian (www. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Boeing 737 is the worlds most popular short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body airliner. ...

The company's aircraft livery is white with a red nose. Most aircraft have a picture of a well-known Norwegian on the tail.

During spring and summer 2007 two McDonnell Douglas MD-80s will be wet-leased from Dubrovnik Airline and FlyNordic Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. ... Gidsken Jakobsen (August 1, 1908 - 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. ... Ingstad in his trapper days in the late 1920s (photo from his book The Land of Feast and Famine, 1933). ... Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and actress. ... Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – c. ... Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 in Larvik, Norway–April 18, 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy) was (originally) a Norwegian marine biologist with a great interest in anthropology, who became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles from South America to the... Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927. ... Ibsen redirects here. ... Kirsten Flagstad Kirsten MÃ¥lfrid Flagstad (July 12, 1895 – December 7, 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer. ... Alf Prøysen (23 July 1914 - 23 November 1970), was a writer and musician from Norway. ... The Scream. ... Niels Henrik Abel (August 5, 1802–April 6, 1829), Norwegian mathematician, was born in Nedstrand, near Finnøy where his father acted as rector. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and MD-90 are twin-engine, medium-range, single-aisle commercial jet airplanes. ... A wet lease is any leasing arrangement whereby a company agrees to provide an aircraft and at least one pilot to another company. ... Dubrovnik Airline is a charter airline based in Dubrovnik, Croatia. ... Flynordic is an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

On August 30 2007 Norwegian ordered 42 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft with an option for 42 more, an order with a total worh of $3.1 billion^[9]. The planes will enter the fleet between 2009 and 2014, approximately 10 each year. The Boeing 737 is the worlds most popular short to medium range, single aisle, narrow body airliner. ...

External links

• Norwegian Air Shuttle
• Official route map
• Scanair on NAS

References

1. ^ About Norwegian
2. ^ ^{a b} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-10, p. 57. 
3. ^ Quartely report 3rd quarter 2006
4. ^ Norwegian to strengthen Scandinavian network with FlyNordic acquisition ATW Daily News, April 25, 2007.
5. ^ Aftenposten: Norwegian Air plans new southeast hub
6. ^ Population by sex, age and municipality. Østfold. 1 January 2007
7. ^ Aftenposten: Rygge success for Norwegian (Norwegian)
8. ^ Norwegian's fleet
9. ^ Reuters: Norwegian Air places $3.1 bln Boeing order

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