Air Berlin
Braathens
British Airways
Coast Air
Germanwings
Norwegian
SAS Norge
SAS
Widerøe


Radio call sign Norshuttle
IATA code DY
ICAO code NAX
Official websites www.norwegian.com
  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.
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.

 

  The first 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, later the merged SAS Braathens/SAS Norway. The first four destinations served out of Oslo (OSL) from 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 all these aircraft were 737-300s except for a -500 og some few -400 on short time lease in the beginning. At the end of 2006 the fleet consisted of 22 Boeing 737-300.
The expansion
In July 2006 Norwegian wanted to capture the strong growth potential in Poland, and opened a Polish base in Warsau.

In April 2007, the company signed a letter of intent with Finnair for the acquisition of their FlyNordic. In July the merger took place and FlyNordic was rebranded to norwegian.se

With the FlyNordic merger eight McDonnell Douglas MD-82s and MD-83s were added to the fleet and has since been returned to lessors one by one - the last went out of the Norwegian fleet in October 2009.

Relatively new 737-300s with good maintenance history were hard to find from early 2007, and therefore Norwegian entered into leasing agreements for 11 Boeing 737-800 in May 2007 to continue their expansion.
 
  The next generation
Shortly after having signed the lease agreement for 11 Boeing 737-800, Norwegian also signed an order for 42 (+42 options) for 737-800 IGW direct from Boeing. All these 737-800 will over time replace all the leased 737-300. The fleet will with the last delivered 737-800 in spring 2014 consist of 58 Boeing 737-800 according to Norwegian website.

Because of the strong growth and 737-800 were not ready for delivery, six more 737-300s have been added to the fleet (five of them owned) after 1 January 2007.

The first Boeing 737-800, LN-NOB, took off from Boeing Field in the afternoon of 25 January 2008 and touched Norwegian soil at Oslo Airport in the morning of the 26th. The aircraft have the portrait of the famous Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg on the tail. The aircraft is leased from Babcock & Brown.

The first of Boeing 737-8JPs (JP is the Boeing customer code for Norwegian Air Shuttle), arrived Oslo in the morning of 22 August 2009 after a nine hour delivery flight direct from Boeing Field.
Destinations    
Norway:    
Alta (ALF) Bardufoss (BDU) Bergen (BGO)
Bodø (BOO) Harstad/Narvik (EVE) Haugesund (HAU)
Kirkenes (KKN) Kristiansand (KRS) Molde (MOL)
Oslo (OSL) Rygge (RYG) Stavanger (SVG)
Trondheim (TRD) Tromsø (TOS) Ålesund (AES)
Sweden:    
Kiruna (KRN)
Luleå (LLA) Stockholm (ARN)
Umeå (UME)    
Denmark:    
Billund (BLL) Bornholm (RNN) Copenhagen (CPH)
Karup (KRP) Aalborg (AAL)  
Polen:    
Gdansk (GDN) Krakow (KRK) Szczecin (SZZ)
Warsaw (WAW)    

12 month rolling numbers
per June 2010

Number of passengers 11,750,274
Passenger growth 21.7 %
Load factor 77.3 %
Average flight distance 1,011 km / 628 miles

Resources
  Complete list of Norwegian aircraft
  In Adobe Acrobat format
 
Other international destinations:
Algarve-Faro (FAO) Alicante (ALC) Amsterdam (AMS)
Antalya (AYT) Athens (ATH) Barcelona (BCN)
Belgrade (BEG) Berlin-Schönefeld (SXF) Bordeaux (BOD)
Bourgas (BOJ) Budapest (BUD) Corfu (CFU)
Crete-Chania (CHQ) Crete-Hiraklion (HER) Cyprus-Larnaca (LCA)
Dalaman (DLM) Dubai (DXB) Dublin (DUB)
Dubrovnik (DBV) Düsseldorf (DUS) Edinburgh (EDI)
Geneva (GVA) Gran Canaria (LPA) Hamburg (HAM)
Helsinki (HEL) Ibiza (IBZ) Istanbul-Sabiha (SAW)
Kos (KGS) Lanzarote (ACE) London-Gatwick (LGW)
Malaga (AGP) Mallorca-Palma (PMI) Malta (MLA)
Marrakech (RAK) Milan (MXP) Munich (MUC)
Murcia-Alicante (MJV) Nice (NCE) Palanga/Klaipeda (PLQ)
Paris-Orly (ORY) Pisa-Tuscany (PSA) Prague (PRG)
Priština (PRN) Pula (PUY) Rhodes (RHO)
Riga (RIX) Rijeka (RJK) Rome-Fiumicino (FCO)
Salzburg (SZG) Santorini (JTR) Sarajevo (SJJ)
Sardinia-Olbia (OLB) Sicily-Palermo (PMO) Split (SPU)
St Petersburg (LED) Tallinn (TLL) Tenerife (TFS)
Thessaloniki (SKG) Varna (VAR) Venice (VCE)
Vienna (VIE) Vilnius (VNO)  
Current fleet    
Boeing 737-300    
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LN-KHA In to fleet: 8 May 2008
MSN: 29100 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2984 Earlier operators:
D-ADBR (1998-2002) - Deutsche BA
D-ADBR (2002-2004) - DBA
SX-BGY (2004-2008) - Aegean AL
Year built: 1998
 
LN-KHB In to fleet: 20 September 2008
MSN: 29264 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3070 Earlier operators:
D-ADBT (1998-2002) - Deutsche BA
D-ADBT (2002-2004) - DBA
SX-BGW (2004-2008) - Aegean AL
Year built: 1998
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LN-KHC In to fleet: 26 May 2008
MSN: 29265 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3073 Earlier operators:
D-ADBU (1998-2002) - Deutsche BA
D-ADBU (2002-2004) - DBA
SX-BGZ (2004-2008) - Aegean AL
Year built: 1998
 
LN-KKA In to fleet: 14 January 2008
MSN: 25033 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2025 Earlier operators:
G-MONV (1991-1996) - Monarch
OY-MBN (1996-1998) - Maersk
TC-IAD (1998-1999) - Istanbul Airline
N5033 (1999-2000) - CIT
RP-C4008 (2000-2006) - Philippine AL
SX-BTO (2006-2008) - Aegean
Year built: 1991
 
LN-KKB In to fleet: 29 November 2006
MSN: 27457 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2756 Earlier operators:
G-MONV (1991-1996) - Monarch
OY-MBN (1996-1998) - Maersk
TC-IAD (1998-1999) - Istanbul Airline
N5033 (1999-2000) - CIT
RP-C4008 (2000-2006) - Philippine AL
Year built: 1995
 
LN-KKC In to fleet: 30 November 2006
MSN: 25615 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2478 Earlier operators:
9H-ABT (1993-2006) - Air Malta
Year built: 1993
 
LN-KKD In to fleet: 2 August 2007
MSN: 29339 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3119 Earlier operators:
G-EZYO (1999-2002) - easyJet
HB-IIT (2003-2003) - easyJet CH
G-EZYO (2003-2006) - easyJet
5N-VNB (2006-2007) - Virgin Nigeria
Year built: 1999
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LN-KKE In to fleet: 9 October 2007
MSN: 27285 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2608 Earlier operators:
CS-TKG (1994) - Air Columbus
N102AN (1994-1995) - SBC
DQ-FJD (1995-1999) - Air Pacific-R Tongan
G-ZAPM (1999-2007) - Titan Airways
Year built: 1994
 
LN-KKF In to fleet: 27 August 2002
MSN: 24326 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 1683 Earlier operators:
PH-HVM (1989-2002) - Transavia
N730BC (2002) - BCC Mafolie Hill
Year built: 1989
 
LN-KKG In to fleet: 6 December 2002
MSN: 24327 Tail art: Gidsken Jakobsen
L/N: 1712 Earlier operators:
PH-HVM (1989-2002) - Transavia
Year built: 1989
 
LN-KKH In to fleet: 25 November 2002
MSN: 24328 Tail art: Otto Sverdrup
L/N: 1856 Earlier operators:
PH-HVT (1990-2002) - Transavia
Year built: 1990
 
LN-KKI In to fleet: 14 November 2002
MSN: 24329 Special colours: Kraków on fuselage
L/N: 1858 Earlier operators:
PH-HVV (1990-2002) - Transavia
Year built: 1990
 
LN-KKJ In to fleet: 27 August 2002
MSN: 28564 Tail art: Sonja Henie
L/N: 2936 Earlier operators:
PT-TEP (1997-2000) - Transbrasil
PP-VQP (2000-2002) - Varig
Year built: 1997
 
LN-KKL In to fleet: 3 September 2002
MSN: 28671 Tail art: Roald Amundsen
L/N: 2955 Earlier operators:
PP-VPS (1997-2002) - Varig
N671SR (2002) - Lift VG Brazil LLC
Year built: 1997
 
LN-KKM In to fleet: 29 April 2003
MSN: 24676 Tail art: Thor Heyerdahl
L/N: 1829 Earlier operators:
TC-SUN (1990-2000) - Sunexpress
HA-LES (2000-2003) - Malev
Year built: 1990
 
LN-KKN In to fleet: 28 March 2003
MSN: 24910 Tail art: Sigrid Undset
L/N: 2030 Earlier operators:
TC-SUR (1991-2000) - Sunexpress
HA-LET (2000-2003) - Malev
Year built: 1991
 
LN-KKO In to fleet: 14 May 2004
MSN: 24909 Tail art: Henrik Ibsen
L/N: 2021 Earlier operators:
HA-LED (1991-2004) - Malev
Year built: 1991
 
LN-KKP In to fleet: 9 March 2004
MSN: 25040 Tail art: Kirsten Flagstad
L/N: 2017 Earlier operators:
OO-LTK (1991) - TEA
PH-YAA (1991/storage) - AI IV
VR-BRC (1991-1992/storage) - AI IV
VR-CRC (1992-1993) - Cayman AW
TC-BIR (1993-1996) - Birgenair
OO-SBX (1996-2004) - Sobelair
Year built: 1991
 
LN-KKQ In to fleet: 18 March 2004
MSN: 28658 Tail art: Alf Prøysen
L/N: 2865 Earlier operators:
EC-GMY (1997-2004) - Air Europa
Year built: 1997
 
LN-KKR In to fleet: 29 October 2004
MSN: 24256 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 1629 Earlier operators:
G-MONM (1988-1994) - Monarch
EC-542 (1994) - Air Europa
EC-FVJ (1994-1996) - Air Europa
EC-204 (1996) - Air Europa
EC-GFU (1996-2000) - Air Europa
F-GNFU (2000-2004) - Aeris
OM-AAA (2004) - Slovak Airlines
Year built: 1988
 
LN-KKS In to fleet: 26 April 2005
MSN: 24094 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 1729 Earlier operators:
F-ODGX (1989-2004) - Air Caledonie
ZK-PLU (2004) - Palau Micronesia
Year built: 1989
 
LN-KKT In to fleet: 12 July 2007
MSN: 27336 Special colours: Red tail with man stretching and text on fuselage "Den mest fleksible måten å reise på"
L/N: 2587 Earlier operators:
OY-MAO (1994-1995) - Maersk Air
D-ADBH (1995-2001) - Deutsche BA
G-IGOS (2001-2002) - Go Fly
G-IGOS (2002-2006) - EasyJet
Year built: 1994
 
LN-KKU In to fleet: 27 January 2006
MSN: 27337 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2594 Earlier operators:
OY-MAP (1994-1996) - Maersk Air
D-ADBI (1996-2001) - Deutsche BA
G-IGOU (2001-2002) - Go Fly
G-IGOU (2002-2005) - EasyJet
Year built: 1994
 
LN-KKV In to fleet: 8 November 2005
MSN: 25613 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2446 Earlier operators:
9H-ABR (1993-2005) - Air Malta
Year built: 1993
 
LN-KKW In to fleet: 14 April 2006
MSN: 24213 Special colours: UNICEF
'Every child deserves a childhood'
'Norwegian supports UNICEF'
L/N: 1794 Earlier operators:
CS-TIG (1988-1993) - Bavaria/AirAtl.
CS-TIG (1993-2001) - TAP
CS-TIG (2001) - Euro Atlantic AW
PR-BRE (2001-2002) - Brasil Rodo
PR-BRE (2002-2004) - Euro Atlantic
CS-TLL (2004) - Euro Atlantic AW
CS-TLL (2004-2005) - Blue Air
CS-TLL (2005-2006) - Euro Atlantic
Year built: 1989
 
LN-KKX In to fleet: 6 April 2006
MSN: 29072 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3012 Earlier operators:
OO-SLK (1998-2001) - Sobelair
ZK-NGN (2001-2006) - Air N Zealand
Year built: 1998
 
LN-KKY In to fleet: 31 July 2006
MSN: 29245 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3061 Earlier operators:
PP-VPZ (1998-2006) - Varig
N293SZ (2006) - Wells Fargo Bank
Year built: 1998
 
LN-KKZ In to fleet: 16 August 2006
MSN: 27458 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 2959 Earlier operators:
TJ-CBG (1997-2002) - Cameroon AL
PT-MNL (2002-2006) - Nordeste
Year built: 1997
Boeing 737-800    
 
LN-DYA In to fleet: 21 August 2009
MSN: 39162 Tail art: Erik Bye
L/N: 2994 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-DYB In to fleet: 8 October 2009
MSN: 39163 Tail art: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
L/N: 3054 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-DYC In to fleet: 4 March 2010
MSN: 39164 Tail art: Max Manus
L/N: 3196 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
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LN-DYD In to fleet: 6 April 2010
MSN: 39002 Tail art: H. C. Andersen
L/N: 3231 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
 
LN-KHD In to fleet: 26 November 2009
MSN: 33022 Tail art/special colours: All white
L/N: 1672 Earlier operators:
G-CDEG (2005-2009) - flyGlobespan
Year built: 2005
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LN-NOB In to fleet: 25 January 2008
MSN: 34954 Tail art: Edvard Grieg
L/N: 2483 New from Boeing
Year built: 2008
 
LN-NOC In to fleet: 1 February 2008
MSN: 30785 Tail art: Ole Bull
L/N: 1007 Earlier operators:
N308TA (2001-2002) - Tombo Aviation
EC-ICD (2002-2008) - Air Europa
Year built: 2001
 
LN-NOD In to fleet: 10 June 2008
MSN: 35280 Tail art: Sonja Henie
L/N: 2629 New from Boeing
Year built: 2008
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LN-NOE In to fleet: 18 December 2008
MSN: 35283 Tail art: Henrik Wergeland
L/N: 2742 New from Boeing
Year built: 2008
 
LN-NOF In to fleet: 26 June 2008
MSN: 36809 Tail art: Edvard Munch
L/N: 2647 New from Boeing
Year built: 2008
 
LN-NOG In to fleet: 10 June 2009
MSN: 35647 Tail art: Henrik Ibsen
L/N: 2927 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-NOH In to fleet: 2 September 2009
MSN: 36814 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3015 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-NOI In to fleet: 21 December 2009
MSN: 36820 Tail art: Sam Eyde
L/N: 3131 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
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LN-NOJ In to fleet: 29 March 2010
MSN: 37884 Tail art: Tycho Brahe
L/N: 3223 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
 
LN-NOL In to fleet: 16 April 2009
MSN: 37159 Tail art: 6000th 737
L/N: 2868 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-NOM In to fleet: 24 February 2009
MSN: 28642 Tail art: Greta Garbo
L/N: 813 Earlier operators:
TC-APF (2001-2008) - Pegasus Airlines
SE-RHA (2008-2009) - norwegian.se
Year built: 2001
 
LN-NON In to fleet: 18 February 2009
MSN: 28620 Tail art: Anders Celsius
L/N: 542 Earlier operators:
TC-SUD (2000-2004) - Sun Express
TC-AAB (2004-2008) - Pegasus Airlines
SE-RHB (2008-2009) - norwegian.se
Year built: 2000
 
LN-NOO In to fleet: 27 February 2009
MSN: 30289 Tail art: Gustav Vigeland
L/N: 1399 Earlier operators:
OY-SEJ (2003-2008) - Sterling Airlines
N289CG (2008-2009) - Wells Fargo
Year built: 2003
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LN-NOP In to fleet: 12 March 2009
MSN: 32655 Tail art: Camilla Collet
L/N: 1662 Earlier operators:
EC-JDU (2005-2008) - Futura International
EI-ECL (2008-2009) - Celestial Aviation
Year built: 2005
 
LN-NOQ In to fleet: 5 March 2009
MSN: 32658 Tail art: Kristian Birkeland
L/N: 1695 Earlier operators:
EC-JFB (2005-2007) - Futura International
D-ALIG (2007) - Cirrus Airlines
EC-KKU (2007-2008) - Futura International
EI-ECM (2008-2009) - Celestial Aviation
Year built: 2005
 
LN-NOS In to fleet: 7 April 2009
MSN: 33018 Tail art: Ludvig Holberg
L/N: 1488 Earlier operators:
OY-SEL (2004-2008) - Sterling Airlines
EI-EDL (2008-2009) - CIT
Year built: 2004
 
LN-NOT In to fleet: 3 March 2010
MSN: 37816 Tail art: Piet Hein
L/N: 3194 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
 
LN-NOU In to fleet: 13 January 2010
MSN: 29674 Tail art: Carl von Linné
L/N: 3140 New from Boeing
Year built: 2009
 
LN-NOV In to fleet: 25 March 2010
MSN: 31713 Tail art: Evert Taube
L/N: 3215 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
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LN-NOW In to fleet: 11 August 2010
MSN: 37817 Tail art: Oda Krohg
L/N: 3364 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
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LN-NOX In to fleet: Due 27 August 2010
MSN: 37818 Tail art/special colours: None
L/N: 3384 New from Boeing
Year built: 2010
     

Traffic numbers 2010

 
Passengers, month result
Passengers, 12 months rolling
Traffic, RPK
 
Change from 2009
 
Change from previous month
Million passenger km
Change from 2009
January
827,743
+27.7 %
10,933,545
+179,441
807
+27.9 %
February 834,884 +24.7 % 11,098,960 +165,415 815 +28.1 %
March 1,021,063 +29.7 % 11,333,020 +234,060 1,013 +38.2 %
April 791,371 -8.1 % 11,262,861 -70,159 848 +1.3 %
May

1,185,373

+25.3 % 11,502,152 +239,291 1,241 +36.5 %
June 1,224,958 +25.4 % 11,750,274 +248,122 1,265 +30.4 %
July 1,322,695 +26.1 % 12,024,285 +274,011 1,653 +29.6 %
August            
September            
October            
November            
December            
Total
7,208,087
+21.4 %
   
7,642

+27.6 %

Growth
+1,270,181
     
+1,651
 

Traffic numbers 2009

 
Passengers, month result
Passengers, 12 months rolling
Traffic, RPK
 
Change from 2008
 
Change from previous month
Million passenger km
Change from 2008
January
648,302
+5.2 %
9,168,340
+31,778
631
+25.2 %
February 669,469 +1.2 % 9,176,446 +8,106 636 +17.6 %
March 787,003 +9.4 % 9,244,301 +67,855 733 +14.4 %
April 861,530 +17.5 % 9,372,681 +128,380 837 +23.1 %
May 946,082 +23.7 % 9,553,941 +181,260 909 +18.8 %
June 976,836 +15.4 % 9,684,521 +130,580 970 +9.5 %
July 1,048,684 +16.4 % 9,832,222 +147,701 1,275 +9.5 %
August 1,007,623 +17,6 % 9,982,709 +150,487 1,070 +9.4 %
September 1,010,439 +23.8 % 10,176,885 +194,176 927 +16.8 %
October 1,049,203 +25.2 % 10,388,197 +211,312 969 +18.8 %
November 933,371 +27.7 % 10,590,437 +202,240 872 +27.5 %
December 815,562 +25.1 % 10,754,104 +163,667 772 +24.3 %
Total
10,754,104
+17.3 %
   
10,601
+16.8 %
Growth
+1,617,542
     
+1,527