Norwegian Air Shuttle

[Ray Finkle]

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[BHXsupporter]

Hmm I'm not a Twitter account holder. Why don't they allow e-mail? :sad:

 

[TheLocalYokel]

[offtopic]

Hmm I'm not a Twitter account holder. Why don't they allow e-mail?

I agree. Recently our local bus company (First) had a question and answer session online with the local boss. Questions had to be pre-submitted but via the company's Twitter or Facebook account. I am not a member of either, and have no wish to join, so was excluded.[/offtopic]

 

[thunderchild]

Any ideas which part of the terminal they will be using?

 

[Brum X]

Any ideas which part of the terminal they will be using?

Probably the main international pier, i dont think they have the same policy as Ryanair and refuse to use the air bridges at airports with them. I know recently looking at a photo of Oslo airport and it was full of Norweigan 737s with air bridges attached to all of them. The same with Vueling at Barcelona El Prat

 

[Brum X]

Winter 2015/16

People still talking about AGP/TFS/LPA from Norweigan and might have the reason why EDI/AGP is on sale but BHX/AGP isnt yet.

The EDI AGP Flights are routed through Scandinavia over the winter and are not direct, can anybody confirm this and this does seem a strange one.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Just tried a dummy booking for winter and EDI - AGP goes out via OSL and returns via CPH. Norwegian generally have their routes on sale 9-10 months beforehand so one would assume that if any of these three routes were to continue into winter they would be bookable now, they could of course be seeing how bookings go before making a decision. New winter routes generally seem to be announced in March so if the rumours are correct we'll see LPA and TFS announced then.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Just browsing the Norwegian website and Malaga looks to have sold very well with many flights throughout May, June, July and Aug already sold out and some very high fares on others. Madrid looks a bit of a mixed bag with some months still showing some very low fares and others much higher or sold out, I guess it's slightly more business orientated where people tend to book later but if you want a bargain there are plenty available. It's probably a bit early for Barcelona as it doesn't start until June but the fares are much higher than Madrid.

Madrid probably would be better served by Vueling or Iberia Express so people can feed onto Iberia's long haul network but if Norwegian can make it work then I'm happy.

It's a shame we couldn't have got Alicante and a couple of Canaries destinations for the summer as I reckon they would have done well. Hopefully we'll see TFS and LPA for winter.

Also when I told Mrs Finkle of the prices for Malaga she said "who's that with?" when I told her Norwegian she gave me a very quizzical look and said "Norwegian? Malaga is in Spain?"

 

[Brum X]

Just browsing the Norwegian website and Malaga looks to have sold very well with many flights throughout May, June, July and Aug already sold out and some very high fares on others. Madrid looks a bit of a mixed bag with some months still showing some very low fares and others much higher or sold out, I guess it's slightly more business orientated where people tend to book later but if you want a bargain there are plenty available. It's probably a bit early for Barcelona as it doesn't start until June but the fares are much higher than Madrid.

Madrid probably would be better served by Vueling or Iberia Express so people can feed onto Iberia's long haul network but if Norwegian can make it work then I'm happy.

It's a shame we couldn't have got Alicante and a couple of Canaries destinations for the summer as I reckon they would have done well. Hopefully we'll see TFS and LPA for winter.

Also when I told Mrs Finkle of the prices for Malaga she said "who's that with?" when I told her Norwegian she gave me a very quizzical look and said "Norwegian? Malaga is in Spain?"

Talking of Norweigian, its all doom and gloom with these at the minuite. Norweigan Scandinavia is in a right mess, cancelled flights all over the place. This will not do them any good,, especially in a new market like BHX, if you had a choice of going to BCN with DY/ZB/FR or indeed Vueling. Will people favour the other airlines ?????? Same goes for AGP.
I really hope they sort out the mess, otherwise BHX will be put on the back burner.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I thought the same thing but thought I'd wait for someone else to bring it up.

Hopefully a deal can be reached with the unions and things will quickly return back to normal, it could have been much worse for BHX if the first few weeks of flights were affected.

Changing direction slightly it's only rumoured that Norwegian may fly from BHX to Florida one day but this article caught my eye.

A maverick Norwegian airline that has promised to upend the transatlantic market with super-low fares is planning to change flags and become a British carrier.

Norwegian Air Shuttle, which last year launched budget flights between Gatwick airport and America on new 787 Dreamliners, is understood to have set up a British subsidiary that it intends to use to evade a row over its transatlantic expansion.

Norwegian is believed to be behind Westforce Aviation, a company that was set up in December and is fronted by two aviation lawyers from the London law firm Ince & Co.

In January, Westforce applied to the Civil Aviation Authority for an operating licence to run charter and schedule fights — the type of licence designed for large airlines such as British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and easyJet.

Full article here but you need a subscription: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/bus ... 2015_03_07

 

[Aviador]

I think the airline is becoming a UK registered company and moving it's business here so there is every possibility we'll see new routes open up from the UK.

 

[Aviador]

Norwegian lands in UK

 

[Ray Finkle]

Norwegian Air @Norwegianair · 9h 9 hours ago
So looking forward to bringing our free wifi equipped b737 to @bhx_official on Sunday! See you soon folks!

The first flight from Madrid arrives Sunday at 10:50 with Malaga starting on Monday

 

[User0001]

They have also said long haul will begin in the UK regions in 2016/2017.

 

[Ray Finkle]

This was the reply when asked about LAX

it will be from LGW regional UK hopefully from 2017..

They also said there 'could be new routes in W15' for BHX. If so I wonder if an announcement will coincide with the lauch next week.

 

[Brum X]

This was the reply when asked about LAX

it will be from LGW regional UK hopefully from 2017..

They also said there 'could be new routes in W15' for BHX. If so I wonder if an announcement will coincide with the lauch next week.

Good stuff, cant wait to see them at BHX on sunday.

And Summer is coming :dirol:

 

[Ray Finkle]

Is there a possibility of long haul from BHX in the future?


@Norwegianair you never know, there are new ways of doing long haul coming on stream soon


With them recently signing a deal to do some short haul flying for tour operators I wonder if this quote means they'll be doing the long haul for the likes of Thomson and Thomas Cook in the future.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

Greetings all,

I travel quite often down to Malaga and check Norwegian's prices (partly to give them support as a new player) against Monarch & Ryanair. Surprisingly, Monarch is the cheapest every time with the baggage requirement.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Malaga looks to be doing quite well with only the most expensive seats left on many flights, this Monday's flight is going for £350 one way :shok:

Madrid doesn't look great with fares still at £30 or so right the way through, the first few flights are up to over £200 though so it may be that MAD will see more late bookings.

The person from Norwegian UK has Tweeted that he/she will be inbound from MAD on Sunday, hopefully we'll see an announcement of LPA and TFS for W15.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Malaga is full for the next couple of weeks and there's only a handful of seats left to Madrid next week