Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA

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”Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA” is a low-cost airline registered in Norway and operating in Europe under the name “Norwegian” (IATA: DY, ICAO: NOZ, Callsign: NORDIC). The company “Norwegian Air Shuttle” was founded on 22^nd of January 1993 to replace the regional-flights branch of “Braathens” in Norway. Initially, these intra-Norwegian flights were served by the subsidiary of “Braathens”, called “Busy Bee”. However, in December 1992 the smaller company “Busy Bee” filed for bankruptcy and three of its Fokker 50 aircraft were consequentially leased to “Norwegian Air Shuttle”. This was the start of the “Norwegian” with operations from Bergen Airport to several regional centers with most of the former personnel of “Busy Bee”.

In the next years, “Norwegian Air Shuttle” expanded its fleet with additional aircraft and destinations. By the turn of the millennium, the company had six Fokker 50 and more than 20,000 flights with half a million passengers transferred. After 2000, “Norwegian Air Shuttle” invested in one more Fokker 50, but also bought the helicopter-operation branch of “CHC Helikopter Service”. In 2001 some regional routes were cancelled and the traffic on others heavily reduced. The reasons for that were complex and at least partially due to the purchase of “Braathens” by “Scandinavian Airlines System” (SAS). SAS aimed that their own “SAS Commuter” subsidiary will take over the operations of the “Norwegian Air Shuttle”, although the contracts between “Braathens” and “Norwegian Air Shuttle” were valid for another 18 months. On 7^th of January 2002, “Norwegian Air Shuttle” started to operate on the route Stavanger–Newcastle, in April the company announced that it will re-focus as a low-cost domestic carrier for the business and from 1^th of September 2002 it re-branded as “Norwegian”.

The new approach of “Norwegian” was to serve additional Central European routes and more home destinations. In April 2007 “Norwegian” bought the low-cost airline “FlyNordic” from “Finnair” to become the largest low-cost carrier in Scandinavia. In August the same year “Norwegian” ordered 42 brand-new Boeing 737-800 and leased several old Boeing 737-800 from January 2008. By June 2011, “Norwegian” owned 78 aircraft of the same model, with another 12 options for new orders. Several key destinations in Scandinavia were covered by that time in addition to New York City, Bangkok and places in South America and Africa.

”Norwegian” placed the largest order of aircraft in European history on 25^th of January 2012. Back then the company ordered 22 Boeing 737-800, 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 100 Airbus A320 neo. In the next couple of years, “Norwegian” served routes from London Gatwick airport to destinations in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Croatia, routes from Chicago Rockford International Airport to USA, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 2017 several destination in Asia were covered. At that point, “Norwegian” was regarded as the largest airline in Scandinavia.

The next year, 2018, the company changed the financial strategy from growth to profitability. Consecutively in 2019 there were major restructuring of the crew bases and aircraft. The order for all Airbus A320 neo was cancelled. The whole fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 8 was grounded by advice of European Union Aviation Safety Agency due to safety concerns after the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 on 29^th of October 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on 10^th of March 2019. In the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company was hit by the global decline of commercial flights and also by the financial difficulties into finding new investors. In April 2020, “Norwegian” filed bankruptcies in several subsidiaries, asked the Norwegian government for a loan and ultimately converted debt into equity in May the same year. There was a credit guarantee from the Swedish government as well. In 2021 during the restructuring of the company two subsidiaries were established, one in Norway (“Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC AS”) and the other in Sweden (“Norwegian Air Sweden AOC AB”). The flights under the new subsidiaries started on 31^st of October 2021, with the respective ICAO airline codes (NOZ and NSZ) and callsigns (“NORSEMAN” and “NORLIGHT”). The callsigns were changed in March 2022 to “NORDIC” for the Norwegian branch and “REDNOSE” for the Swedish subsidiary.

Fleet of “Norwegian”

As of 2023 the fleet of "Norwegian" includes only Boeing aircraft from two models, Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8. All aircraft owned by the both subsidiaries of “Norwegian” are presented in the next sections.

Boeing 737-800 fleet:

The following Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft are operated by “Norwegian”:

LN-DYK, Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

SE-RPH, Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

LN-ENT, Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Tail Reg. ▾	Model ▾	Config ▾	Owner and operator ▾	Remarks ▾
LN-DYJ	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Georg Brandes on the tail
LN-DYK	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Carl Larsson on the tail
LN-DYM	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of André Bjerke on the tail
LN-DYR	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portraits of Christen Asbjørnsen (left) and Jørgen Moe (right) on the tail
LN-DYT	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-DYU	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Jørn Utzon on the tail
LN-DYX	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-DYY	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Vilhelm Bjerknes on the tail
LN-ENL	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-ENM	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-ENN	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Christopher Polhem on the tail
LN-ENO	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-ENP	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Freddie Mercury on the tail
LN-ENQ	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Aleksis Kivi on the tail
LN-ENR	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Jan Baalsrud on the tail
LN-ENS	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-ENT	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Richard Møller Nielsen on the tail
LN-ENU	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-ENV	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NGD	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NGK	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NGM	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Carl Nielsen on the tail
LN-NGS	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NGZ	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NHA	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NHE	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NHG	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NIB	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Helmer Hanssen on the tail
LN-NIE	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Asta Nielsen on the tail
LN-NIG	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NIH	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NII	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NIK	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-NIL	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Henrik Wergeland on the tail
LN-NIM	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Camilla Collett on the tail
LN-NIN	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Sigrid Undset on the tail
LN-NIO	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	“UNICEF” on the tail
LN-NIP	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Gidsken Jakobsen on the tail
LN-NIQ	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Max Manus on the tail
LN-NOD	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Sonja Henie on the tail
SE-RPD	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPE	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPF	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPG	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPH	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Fredrika Bremer on the tail
SE-RPI	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPJ	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Karin Larsson on the tail
SE-RPK	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPL	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Gustav Vigeland on the tail
SE-RPM	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPR	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of N.F.S. Grundtvig on the tail
SE-RPS	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPT	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RPU	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RRB	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson on the tail
SE-RRE	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Ludvig Holberg on the tail
SE-RRF	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Fridtjof Nansen on the tail
SE-RRG	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Jenny Lind on the tail
SE-RRJ	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Jens Moe on the tail
SE-RRN	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Karen Blixen on the tail
SE-RRO	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Otto Sverdrup on the tail
SE-RRP	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Aksel Sandemose on the tail
SE-RRS	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RRT	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Amalie Skram on the tail
SE-RXA	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	“UNICEF” on the tail
SE-RXB	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	“UNICEF” on the tail
SE-RXC	Boeing 737-800	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Anne-Cath. Vestly on the tail
SE-RXD	Boeing 737-800	Y186	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Wenche Foss on the tail

Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet

The following Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft are operated by “Norwegian”:

SE-RTB, Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

LN-FGF, Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

SE-RTH, Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

Tail Reg. ▾	Model ▾	Config ▾	Owner and operator ▾	Remarks ▾
LN-FGE	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC
LN-FGF	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Karin Boye on the tail
LN-FGG	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Kim Friele on the tail
LN-FGH	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Anders Celsius on the tail
LN-FGI	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Piet Hein on the tail
LN-FGJ	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Shuttle AOC	portrait of Knud Rasmussen on the tail
SE-RTA	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Charles Lindbergh on the tail
SE-RTB	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Elsa Beskow on the tail
SE-RTC	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente on the tail
SE-RTD	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	“UNICEF” on the tail
SE-RTE	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Edvard Munch on the tail
SE-RTF	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RTG	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Sam Eyde on the tail
SE-RTH	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Minna Canth on the tail
SE-RTI	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Jean Sibelius on the tail
SE-RTJ	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Ivo Caprino on the tail
SE-RTK	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RTL	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC
SE-RYC	Boeing 737 MAX 8	Y189	NOZ, Norwegian Air Sweden AOC	portrait of Theodor Kittelsen on the tail

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