Norwegian (airline)
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| Founded | 22 January 1993 (24 years ago) | ||||||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Norwegian Reward | ||||||
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Norwegian Long Haul Norwegian Air International Norwegian Air UK Norwegian Air Argentina |
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| Fleet size | 106 | ||||||
| Destinations | 132 | ||||||
| Headquarters | "Diamanten" (The Diamond) building Fornebu, Norway |
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| Key people |
Bjørn Kjos (CEO) Bjørn H. Kise (Chairman) Tore Jenssen (CEO Norwegian Air International) |
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| Revenue |
 NOK 25.95 billion (2016) |
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| Operating income |
NOK 1.82 billion (2016) |
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| Net income |
NOK 1.134 billion (2016) |
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| Website | norwegian |
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Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (: ), trading as Norwegian, is the third largest low-cost carrier in Europe, the 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 Finland, and to business destinations such as London, as well as to holiday destinations in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands, transporting over 30 million people in 2015. The airline is known for its distinctive livery of white with a red nose, with individual portraits of noteworthy Scandinavians on the tail fins of its aircraft.
Norwegian launched its long-haul operation in May 2013. The long-haul flights were intended to be operated by two fully owned subsidiaries, Norwegian Long Haul and Irish based Norwegian Air International (NAI), which has a unique air operator's certificate (AOC) but shares branding and commercial functions with the rest of the Group. Due to delayed approval of a Foreign Air Service Permit from the U.S. Department of Transportation for NAI however, all long-haul flights were initially performed by the parent company under its original AOC.
Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS) was founded on 22 January 1993 to take over the regional airline services produced by Busy Bee for Braathens in Western Norway. Busy Bee, founded in 1966, was a subsidiary of Braathens that operated a fleet of Fokker 50 aircraft on charter services. This included the network of regional services between cities on the west coast of Norway operated on wet lease for the mother company. Following Busy Bee's bankruptcy in December 1992, NAS took over three leased Fokker 50 aircraft, and started operating from Bergen Airport, Flesland to Haugesund Airport, Karmøy, as well as from Bergen to Molde Airport, Årø or Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget, and onwards to Trondheim Airport, Værnes. The company was established and owned by former Busy Bee employees and initially had a workforce of fifty. It was based in Bergen, but later established a technical base in Stavanger.
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