The Scandinavian airline expects to do well this year after a strong quarter – but also apologises for the many recent delays.
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Norwegian blasted for massive delay
Passengers describe how they were kept on the tarmac for 11 hours with little information and almost nothing to eat or drink.
Read More »Primera Air to fly transatlantic from Berlin
Flights will be operated from Berlin Tegel to New York JFK, Boston and Toronto starting from June 2019.
Read More »Wizz Air expands Denmark-Ukraine routes
The low-cost carrier is making more city pairs, this time Billund-Kiev and Copenhagen-Lviv.
Read More »Norway’s airports swing back to profit
Avinor reverses a negative first-half result. And there's also news about Haugesund, Fagernes and Oslo airports.
Read More »Scandic divests three hotels in Finland
Lapland Hotels will take over operations at the Cumulus Kuopio Station, one of three to go as part of the Restel deal.
Read More »DAT becomes Norra majority shareholder
Danish Air Transport has bought a 60% stake in Nordic Regional Airlines, also known as Norra, from Finnair.
Read More »Tourists invade funeral in small Norwegian town
The rising tide of cruise tourists flocking daily into the coastal town of Honningsvåg is starting to cause havoc.
Read More »Egypt back on route map from Torp
The Norwegian tour operator Amisol Travel has set up a direct route from Oslo to Sharm el Sheikh.
Read More »Finnair piles on more frequencies to Asia
The airline continues to build capacity on its routes to Tokyo, Nagoya, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, for summer 2019.
Read More »Laudamotion to double fleet in wake of Ryanair deal
The Austrian low-cost carrier will acquire additional Airbus planes as Ryanair buys a 75% stake in the company.
Read More »Driverless taxis in Tokyo ahead of Olympics
A self-driving minivan equipped with sensors made four round-trips a day this week along a busy road.
Read More »WOW air launches US sales for flights to India
The Icelandic airline will be flying between cities in the United States and India via Keflivik from December.
Read More »Emirates boosts presence in Scandinavia
The Dubai-based carrier is raising its capacity higher for Stockholm than for Copenhagen this winter.
Read More »Norway tourism gets “slow TV” boost
Tomorrow, a seven-hour climb up Norway's highest mountain will be broadcast minute-by-minute.
Read More »Cook CEO promises investigation of hotel deaths
A couple died of respiratory failure, but Peter Fankhauser says there is no evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Read More »Vilnius Airport signs deal for slot coordination
Expecting a 24% rise in passengers this year, the airport has signed a deal with Airport Coordination UK.
Read More »Second-hand cruise-ship market picks up steam
A large number of vessels are being sold on to other lines or for different 'careers' this year.
Read More »Icelandair CEO resigns as crisis deepens
Björgólfur Jóhannsson is stepping down as the airline warns its results will be “worse than projected”.
Read More »SAS cancels 1,500 upcoming flights
The airline admits that it overestimated demand for the season, and it has also suffered from contractor crew shortages.
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