Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (OSE: NAS, IATA Code: DY), trading as Norwegian, is the fifth-largest low-cost airline in Europe, and the second-largest airline in Scandinavia. In 2008, it transported 9.1 million people on 150 routes to 82 destinations, covering across Europe into North Africa and the Middle East. As of October 2008, Norwegian operates 41 Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft.
The main hub is Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, but Nor...
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Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (OSE: NAS, IATA Code: DY), trading as Norwegian, is the fifth-largest low-cost airline in Europe, and the second-largest airline in Scandinavia. In 2008, it transported 9.1 million people on 150 routes to 82 destinations, covering across Europe into North Africa and the Middle East. As of October 2008, Norwegian operates 41 Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft.
The main hub is Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, but Norwegian also has Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Moss, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Warsaw as focus cities. It offers a high-frequency domestic operation in Norway, combined with a low-frequency service to international destinations from its focus cities.
Norwegian was founded in 1993 as a regional airline taking over routes in Western Norway after the bankruptcy of Busy Bee. Until 2002, it operated Fokker 50 aircraft on wet lease for Braathens. Following the merger of the two domestic incumbents Braathens and Scandinavian Airlines, Norwegian took...
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