Low-fare airline Norwegian is considering registering its new Dreamliner long distance aircraft in Ireland, in order to cut staff and operating costs, and increase profits.
The airline wants to use staff with Asian salary and working conditions on its new destinations to New York, Florida and Bangkok, in order to achieve greater profitability, financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv writes.
Norwegian regulations forbids Norwegian to use Asian staff and salary conditions on its Norwegian-registered aircraft.
Norwegian unions have protested strongly against Norwegian's plans
(NRK)
The government has decided to raise the ban from 2007 on collecting bonus points on domestic flights.
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All planes of the Widerøe domestic airline are grounded from Wednesday due to a strike by cabine staff. Negotiations for pension rights were broken off in the early hours of the morning.
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Swissport International Ltd. and Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) have announced they have signed a Letter of Intent, with the aim for Swissport to take over SAS ground handling services.
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As part of an effort to save the SAS airline, the SAS pilots unions in Sweden Denmark and Norway have presented a new proposal to the SAS leadership.
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Norwegian Minister of Industry and Trade, Trond Giske, says the savings plan presented by SAS on Monday is demanding on the personnel, but necessary.
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Norwegian Airlines demand that Avinor (Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration) reimburses them for a NOK 100 million loss due to delays and cancelled flights this summer.
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The proposals for a new national transport plan has been presented. It calls for more money to be spent on public transport in and around the larger cities, and less on large road projects.
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More than 44 million passengers travelled to and from Norwegian airports operated by Avinor in 2011. This a growth of 10.4 per cent from the year before, and new record,
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