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Norwegian overtakes British Airways to the United States
Norwegian is now the largest non-American airline on transatlantic routes to and from the New York area, fresh traffic figures are showing. The figures from the Port…
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Proposal for lower airline charges
The government plans to reduce the passenger charges on travel in Norway and Europe to NOK 75 per journey, but to increase it to NOK 200 on trips outside of Europe. The…
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Increased guest nights in hotels in August
The increase in number of guest nights in hotels was 1.6 per cent in August 2018 compared with August 2017. There were an increase in reported guest nights both from…
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Norwegian reports strong passenger growth in September
Norwegian reported strong passenger growth as it carried almost 3.5 million passengers in September. The total number of passengers increased by 9 percent compared to…
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A drunk man was removed from a plane at Gardermoen – tried to check in again
A 40 something year old man from Sunnmør was removed from a plane on Friday night because he was too drunk. Shortly thereafter, the man was stopped in the security check…
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Ryanair cancels 190 flights
Ryanair cancelled 190 of 2,400 scheduled flights on Friday due to strikes among cabin crew members in Belgium, Germany,Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal,and Spain. This…
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Avinor requires thousands in parking fees from employees at airports
Avinor will require more than 10,000 kroner a year in order to allow employees to park at Oslo Airport.Parat’s deputy leader, Vegard Einan,said this is critical for many…
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Hungarian low cost carrier comes to Gardermoen
Hungarian Wizz Air will launch a daily direct route between Oslo and Gdansk in April next year. The flights will take place from Oslo Airport. The main route to Poland’s…
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Over half go abroad during autumn holidays
34% are planning to take autumn holidays this year show figures from Virkes population survey. Of these,more than half indicate that the holiday will be abroad. 54% of…
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Gardermoen Airport plans a 3.3 billion NOK expansion
In order to increase the capacity of travelers outside the Schengen area, Avinor will expand Oslo Airport at Gardermoen by 30,000 square meters. In three weeks, the…
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Avinor’s airports had over 5 million travellers in August
Over 5 million travellers flew through Avinor’s airports in August, 4% more than in the same month last year. Especially Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger contributed to the…
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Norwegian airline planning flights to Rio de Janeiro from 2019
The Norwegian airline plans to launch a Boeing 787 airplane route between London Gatwick and Rio de Janeiro’s Galeao airport next year reported the FlightGlobal website,…
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New passenger growth for SAS
SAS delivered 2.8 million passengers in August this year, an increase of 4.3 percent from the same month last year. The cabin factor, ie how well the company is able to…
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Norwegian reports strong passenger growth and high load factors in August
Norwegian reported strong passenger growth as it carried more than 3.6 million passengers in August. The total number of passengers increased by 10 percent compared to…
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Tripadvisor ranks Tromsø in third place
Tripadvisor ranks Tromsø as the world’s third best adventure holiday destination The world’s largest travel site, Tripadvisor, has named Tromsø as the world’s third best…
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Norwegian airline could get many compensation demands for poor flight experiences
Passengers on a Norwegian plane going from London to Oslo were held on board for over ten hours. Now they have been notified of the compensation claims possible against…
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Ryanair stops free hand luggage on airplanes
The airline Ryanair will charge a fee for “large” hand luggage that is not suitable for the airline in November. Ryanair will have changed the rules by January, so only…
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Travel insurance payments increased this year after falling last year
Insurance payments to people who have been unlucky on vacation have risen by almost 3% in two years.After a decline last year, they increased again this year. So far…