Budget airline Norwegian has confirmed it will not resume its transatlantic flights from Cork or Shannon this year and will bus passengers booked on those flights to Dublin.

With 5.35 million passengers in 2018, Norwegian carried the biggest number to Spain from the five Nordic countries – a market share of 43%.

Norwegian Air Argentina has recently announced the addition of new routes and the prospect of coming profitability.

The airline has admitted that what could have been a good month turned out to be a very weak one.

The airline’s new flights between Dublin and Toronto Hamilton almost didn’t happen because of the grounding of the 737 MAX.

The chief executive of Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary, Thorsten Dirks, says that the carrier will practice 'virtual interlining'.

Since the beginning of the SAS pilot strike on April 26, Norwegian has offered a larger number of flights to meet the demand of passengers experiencing cancellations.

The company sees “increased risk related to the target of a positive net profit in 2019”, the airline warns.

The Scandinavian airline has relatively quickly surpassed its competitors for largest numbers of flights to and from New York by a foreign company.

After several wins in many categories over the past several years, Norwegian’s loyalty programme has been given another prize at the 2019 Freddie Awards.

Norwegian says that its first quarter results reflect the steps it has taken to improve profitability and respond to the grounding of Boeing MAX aircraft.

Currently president and chief executive of DFDS, Niels Smedegaard has been nominated as Norwegian’s chairman of the board.

This time, agreement has been reached with Airbus to postpone the delivery of A320neo and A321LR aircraft.

After just a year in place as Norwegian’s chief financial officer, Geir Karlsen has been promoted in a signalled generational shift.

Safety cards stating that the Norwegian and Southwest Airlines plane is a MAX 8 leaves passengers worried.

A former pilot, Kjos was in Seattle to meet Boeing and try out the manufacturer’s new software for the controversial 737 MAX 8.

As it reports its performance figures for March, impacted by the grounding of its MAX aircraft, Norwegian sells two more 737-800s.

Air Serbia, Tibet Airlines and Juneyao Air will start operations at HEL in 2019, while Finnair is also starting new routes.

The airport’s chief executive champions Norwegian for “filling the gap” left by the demise of Primera Air last year.

New routes to Miami and San Francisco and a summer service to Seattle have also just taken off.