Norwegian has extended plans to cancel flights and temporarily lay off staff, in the face of “stagnating demand and enforced travel restrictions by authorities worldwide”.
Norwegian is a major carrier on transatlantic routes from London’s Gatwick airport, but the new US restrictions have effectively curtailed these operations, and the carrier now says that it will have to cancel 85 per cent of flights and temporarily lay off 90 per cent of staff.
All intercontinental flights have been cancelled, with the exception of services between Scandinavia and Thailand which will operate until the end of March.
From March 21 Norwegian will be reduced to operating a scaled down domestic schedule within Norway and between the Nordic capitals, as well as a few European flights.
Details of Norwegian’s reduced schedule – starting March 25
Norway
- Oslo -Bergen/Stavanger/Trondheim: 4 daily departures
- Oslo – Ålesund/Bodø/Evenes/Tromsø: 2 daily departures
- Oslo -Alta/Kirkenes: 1 daily departure
- OSL – Haugesund/Kristiansand/Molde: 1 daily departure
- Oslo – Svalbard: 3 weekly depatures
- Oslo -Stockholm/Copenhagen: 2 daily departures
- Oslo – Helsinki: 4 weekly departures
- Stavanger – Bergen: 1 daily departure
- Bergen – Trondheim: 1 daily departure
Sweden
- Stockholm – Kiruna: 4 weekly departure
- Stockholm – Luleå/Umeå: 2 weekly departures
- Stockholm – Helsinki: 2 daily departures
- Stockholm – Copenhagen: 2 daily departures
- Stockholm – Oslo: 2 daily departures
Finland
- Helsinki – Kittilä: 6 weekly departures
- Helsinki – Oulu: 1 daily departure
- Helsinki – Rovaniemi: 1 daily departure
- Helsinki – Oslo: 4 weekly departures
Denmark
- Copenhagen – Oslo: 2 daily departures