News Highlights
10 September 2008
Norwegian returns to Ålesund, and will fly three times daily to Oslo. Ålesund will be the 13th Norwegian airport that airline fly to.

13 March 2008
FlyNordic will 5 April 2008 change name to Norwegian.se

26 January 2008
The first of 50 new Boeing 737-800 arrive early this morning on its delivery flight direct from Boeing Field (BFI). The aircraft have the portrait of the famous Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg on the tail. The drawing below shows the second 737-800 arriving, the first of three used aircraft, some few days later.

The history
Norwegian Air Shuttle was started in 1993. The airline took over the flights after the bankrupt Busy Bee of Norway A/S. This start up was done in close cooperation with Braathens SAFE. Through the years this wet-lease of aircraft to Braathens grew. In January 2002, their first own flights were started between Stavanger, Norway and Newcastle, UK.

By start up, the airline had a fleet of three Fokker 50 aircraft and around 50 employees. By summer 2002 the numbers have grown to six Fokker F-50 aircraft and around 130 employees.
 

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LN-KKX in October 2007 - winglets added and eyebrow windows removed

Fokker 50 operation
Norwegian Air Shuttle operated now on parts of the Braathens network on the west coast of Norway. In 2001 around 500,000 passengers on 16,500 flights were flown for Braathens. These flights along the west coast of Norway are between Kristiansand (KRS), Stavanger (SVG), Haugesund (HAU), Bergen (BGO), Molde (MOL), Kristiansund (KSU), and Trondheim (TRD). In addition to this it also operated flights between Oslo (OSL) and both airports in Molde (MOL) and Kristiansund (KSU). This service ended on 31 March 2003.

Norwegian Air Shuttle won in autumn of 2002 a government contact flying in northern Norway. This started up in January 2003, and included the following airport Andenes (ANX), Bodø (BOO), Lakselv (LKL), and Tromsø (TOS).

On 14 January 2003 Norwegian Air Shuttle decided to fully consentrate on its 737 operation. Flying the Fokker 50 in northern Norway ended on 31 December 2003. The whole Fokker 50 fleet have been sold off.
 

Boeing 737 operation
Under the trade name "norwegian.no" the business expanded during the fall of 2002. The airline added six Boeing 737-300 and one Boeing 737-500 aircraft to serve domestic flights out of Oslo to four destinations. With all these additional aircraft in place, the number of employees had risen to 300. The new operation added between 14 and 41 flights per day, with the lowest activity on Saturdays and the highest on Fridays.

Norwegian had with this expansion, started to compete with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Braathens, now SAS Braathens. The first four destinations served from Oslo (OSL) since 1 September 2002 were Stavanger (SVG), Bergen (BGO), Trondheim (TRD), and Tromsø (TOS).

Norwegian had until 1 September 2002 been a specialist in operating flight for other, while the airlines that leased in Norwegian had all contact with customers - like ticket reservation and ticket issuing. From this date Norwegian had to handle all of this for the 737 flights.

Step by step the 737 service has been expanded with new aircraft and for the winter season 2007/2008, the summer season 2008 and the winter season 2008/2009 the following destinations are served: