Norway Airlines
| Norway Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | YES |
| ICAO code : | NOS |
| Call sign : | NORSPEED |
| Founding: | 1987 |
| Operation stopped: | 1992 |
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Oslo , Norway
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| Home airport : | Stavanger Airport |
| Fleet size: | 2 |
| Aims: | Charter flights to Southern Europe, scheduled flights to London |
| Norway Airlines ceased operations in 1992. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Norway Airlines (temporarily trading as Air Europe Scandinavia ) was a Norwegian airline that ceased operations in 1992.
history
Norway Airlines was founded on April 2, 1987 by Norwegian investors with the participation of the airline Ansett Australia to offer IT charter flights from Stavanger and Bergen airports to the holiday regions on the Mediterranean. Operations began on February 19, 1988 with a leased Boeing 737-300 . The company received a second aircraft of this type in the same month, but it was immediately leased to the British airline Monarch Airlines . After the bankruptcy of the Norwegian tour operator Sun Tours , which had contributed around 60 percent to the company's passenger volume, the remaining Boeing 737 was also used temporarily for Monarch Airlines in sub-charter and on demand flights in ad hoc charter , including for transport on behalf of the International Red Cross .
In early 1989, the parent company of the British airline Air Europe , the International Leisure Group , acquired a 33% stake in the company. In June 1989 Norway Airlines was integrated into the Airlines of Europe Group and renamed Air Europe Scandinavia . After the name change, the company's two Boeing 737s received a British registration, which made it legally possible to use the machines on scheduled flights between Oslo and London .
After the British parent company had to file for bankruptcy on March 8, 1991, flight operations were initially suspended. From the end of April 1991 onwards, the company began to carry out charter services under the name Norway Airlines and from October 1991 was able to return to London-Gatwick Airport on scheduled flights. The shares of the insolvent International Leisure Group were acquired in July 1991 by the Danish Sterling Airways , which also owned shares in the Swedish airline Transwede . The three airlines planned to set up a joint scheduled flight network within Scandinavia and formed the TransNordic Group for this purpose . Norway Airlines' application for scheduled flights from Oslo to Copenhagen and Stockholm was rejected by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport in December 1991 . In the spring of 1992, the company returned its two Boeing 737s to the lessor and subsequently rented two Transwede aircraft. During the course of 1992, the company's losses increased, so that flight operations were suspended on October 14, 1992 for economic reasons. The company was dissolved in February 1993.
fleet
- Boeing 737-300 (operated from February 1988 to March 1992)
- McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (leased from Transwede in early 1992 )
- McDonnell Douglas MD-87 (leased from Transwede in early 1992)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, November 28, 1987 [1]
- ^ Flight International, March 5, 1988 [2]
- ↑ a b c d Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001
- ↑ Photo of the ICRC mission [3]
- ^ Norway Airlines, scheduled flight schedule October 1991 [4]
- ↑ Flight International, March 31, 1992, p. 125 [5]
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, various issues
