Norwegian expands in Poland

AirbusA350 · Post by **AirbusA350** » 22 Jun 2006, 18:09

Norwegian (DY) announced today (June 22) that the airline will commence operations on new routes from its present base in Warsaw, from the city of Wroclaw and from its present destination Krakow(with flight to OSL). Flights on these new routes will start September 14th and tickets will be available for booking on June 23rd.

Warsaw(WAW)-Rome Ciampino (-2-4-6-7) x4 wkly.
WAW-Milan Malpensa (MXP) (-2-4-6-7) x4 wkly.
WAW-Athens (ATH) (-2-4-6-) x3 wkly.
WAW-Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) (1234567) x7 wkly.
WAW-Dublin(DUB) (1-3-5--)

Krakow(KRK)-Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) (1-3-5-7)

Wroclaw(WRO)- Oslo Gardemoen (1---5--)
WRO- Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) (-2-4-6-)

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 23 Jun 2006, 03:36

I still think they should change their name, since most of their destinations from Poland are not even in the general direction of Norway.

The WAW-Arlanda route is a very nice one though, many people were forced to fly though Skavsta if they wanted to get to Warsaw, and the other way around.

hakan · Post by **hakan** » 25 Jun 2006, 05:18

It looks like Eastern Europe especially, Poland are doing very well in civil aviation activities. Obviously, the market is dynamic there. Good on them.

LN-KGL · Post by **LN-KGL** » 26 Jun 2006, 02:14

earthman wrote:I still think they should change their name, since most of their destinations from Poland are not even in the general direction of Norway.

Why change name? There will only be a few 733s based in Poland Do we hear suggestions about easyJet, Ryanair and Air Berlin changing names when they add new bases?

The Norwegian (Air Shuttle) fleet counts today 17 Boeing 737-300, but in some few days it will be 19. Rumours have it that four more 733s are incoming in near future. If we presume they can still hold on to something similar to their current growth rate (+66% first five months this compared with the same months last year), many more aircraft must be added in the coming year. Norwegian (Air Shuttle) has already reserved the following new registration numbers to cover for further expansion:
LN-KKA
LN-KKE
LN-KKD
LN-NOx - except -NOA and -NOK

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 26 Jun 2006, 12:06

LN-KGL wrote:
earthman wrote:I still think they should change their name, since most of their destinations from Poland are not even in the general direction of Norway.
Why change name? There will only be a few 733s based in Poland Do we hear suggestions about easyJet, Ryanair and Air Berlin changing names when they add new bases?

easyJet & Ryanair don't have any geografical reference in their name. AirBerlin does, so it isn't that odd. I does however matter in marketing issues, I would suppose.

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 26 Jun 2006, 18:49

Buzz wrote:
LN-KGL wrote:
earthman wrote:I still think they should change their name, since most of their destinations from Poland are not even in the general direction of Norway.
Why change name? There will only be a few 733s based in Poland Do we hear suggestions about easyJet, Ryanair and Air Berlin changing names when they add new bases?
easyJet & Ryanair don't have any geografical reference in their name. AirBerlin does, so it isn't that odd. I does however matter in marketing issues, I would suppose.

The point is, LCCs tend to sell their tickets directly, not through agents. If you want to fly to Alicante in Spain from Poland, the last airline you would think of checking would be something called Norwegian. This is less of an issue for airlines selling tickets through travel agents and other systems, where you simply say where you want to go, and you get the cheapest option irrespective of airline (as long as that airline is in the system).

Of course, if they advertise enough, people will know. I've heard enough about Air Berlin to know that they do not fly only to Berlin.

LN-KGL · Post by **LN-KGL** » 26 Jun 2006, 20:41

To make it even worse - Air Berlin was earlier known as Air Berlin USA, but in April 1991 (after the fall of the Berlin Wall) USA was removed.

Back to Norwegian, the aircraft have been nicknamed the tampon

- and by taking closer look at their colours scheme one can understand why

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 27 Jun 2006, 17:13

A used one. Ick. Good thing they don't have a trailing antenna.

DFW · Post by **DFW** » 27 Jun 2006, 18:23

Alaskan Airlines is hubbed out of Seattle (Washington state), not Alaska. But the native Eskimo on the tail is distinctive and brings up images of far-flung destinations.

AirbusA350 · Post by **AirbusA350** » 13 Jul 2006, 20:53

Norwegian announced today (June 13th) that it will launch another new route to Scandinavia, this time it's Copenhagen. WAWCPHWAW will be operated x4 wkly. with the commencement date on Oct.29th.

The first batch of Norwegian's new routes kicked off today, the first aircraft based in Warsaw took off to Malaga with a 100% load-factor. Norwegian's CEO told the press that the carrier is greatly satisfied with the reaction of the Polish market to its new connections.

LN-KGL · Post by **LN-KGL** » 13 Jul 2006, 23:43

With the latest route WAW-CPH-WAW added, the Norwegian European Network looks like this:

AirbusA350 · Post by **AirbusA350** » 15 Jul 2006, 05:43

DY decided to drop NCE (Nice) from the W06/07 season, but they're replacing it with the recently announced flights to CPH.

snowbird · Post by **snowbird** » 15 Jul 2006, 11:12

I heard read yesterday in a Schiphol newsbulletin, that Norwegian will start next 4 times weekle WAW-AMS

AirbusA350 · Post by **AirbusA350** » 15 Jul 2006, 21:44

There are no low-cost airlines flying WAWAMSWAW or vice-versa, NE(SkyEurope) flew this route but it was decided that they will move their operations to KRK and so they closed this connection; along with some others.