Air Norway

The title of this article is ambiguous. See also: Norwegian Air Norway .

Air Norway
IATA code :	M3 used by North Flying
ICAO code :	NFA used by North Flying
Call sign :	NORTH FLYING used by North Flying
Founding:	2003
Operation stopped:	2017
Seat:	Ørland , Norway
Home airport :	Ørland Airport
Management:	Snorre Hvitsand
Fleet size:	0
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.airnorway.no
Air Norway ceased operations in 2017. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Norway was a Norwegian virtual airline based in Ørland . It ceased operations in 2017.

history

Air Norway was founded in 2003 by Gunnar Hagsveen. The company did not have an Air Operator Certificate and hired the Danish company North Flying to carry out its flights. Operations started on May 23 of the same year with a Fairchild Swearingen Metro operated by the Danish partner company between Oslo-Gardermoen Airport and Ørland .

However, the founder and head of the airline, Gunnar Hagsveen, fell ill shortly after the start of operations, which led to a problem in operations and marketing, and also to a collapse in passenger numbers. The founder passed away at Christmas 2003, but the company got its marketing back on its feet, so that Air Norway soon had adequate capacity utilization. However, the difficult start led to high debts, which endangered the operation of the still loss-making airline. Air Norway then asked the local government of Ørland for a loan of 650,000 Norwegian kroner . Since the local government had classified the operation of the flight route to Oslo as very important for the development of the community, Air Norway received the loan in early 2004 after several attempts. At the same time the company was sold to Sven Rosenvinge.

In 2005 Air Norway was still in deficit. The municipality of Ørland decided to buy the virtual airline and paid a price of 1 million Norwegian kroner for half of the shares, the remaining half went to the Danish company North Flying. At the same time, Sven Rosenvinge left the company. The transaction resulted in new capital and medium-term coverage of the loss-making flight operations. Under new management, the company became more popular in the region and won several Danish tourists. For the latter, Air Norway offered a flight from Oslo to Aalborg , which has operated since 2004.

The profit zone was still not reached and so Air Norway had to continue to be financed by the municipality. In July 2005 the company welcomed its ten thousandth passenger. In the same year Air Norway also moved its headquarters from Drammen to Brekstad in Ørland.

The airline continued to run a deficit, in the first three months it was able to show a passenger growth of 40 percent compared to the previous year 2006. In 2006, capacities for traffic between Oslo and Ørland were increased significantly on October 1st.

After Coast Air went bankrupt in January 2008, Air Norway and its operating airline North Flying applied for a number of short-term routes advertised by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications for a short period. As of April 1, 2008, Air Norway and North Flying received the contract to operate the route from Fagernes to Oslo for one year , for which a grant of 11.9 million Norwegian kroner was paid. In February of the same year, the route from Fagernes to Trondheim was taken over . Both routes were discontinued after the contract expired in 2009.

The year 2009 started very badly for Air Norway. The Norwegian armed forces no longer had their employees travel to a base close to the airport with Air Norway via Ørland, but with another airline via Trondheim and then two hours by car. Since these passengers made up about a third of the volume on the route, 1300 passengers were lost. Because of the lower occupancy, Air Norway was back in the red. A restructuring program has started. In order to increase the awareness of Air Norway and thus increase the seat load factor, the municipality gave 62,500 Norwegian kroner in the form of a loan at the turn of the year 2009/2010, which was used for a commercial in the semifinals of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix on January 8, 2010.

On November 28, 2016 Air Norway aside until an operation because the runway of Orland airport was re-concreted.

Air Norway was 40 percent owned by Nordic Air and Ørland and 20 percent owned by North Flying. The route from Ørland to Oslo was supported with 1 million Norwegian kroner annually.

Destinations

Air Norway served destinations in Norway and Denmark from Oslo .

fleet

As of June 2017, Air Norway no longer owned any aircraft. In the past, a Fairchild SA-227-DC Metro 23 was operated by North Flying .

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Air Norway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Air Norway website (Norwegian)
• Photos of Air Norway on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weeks after resuming ops, Air Norway throws in the towel. ch-aviation , October 10, 2017.
2. ↑ Søren Skærbæk: Ny rute Ørlandet Gardermoen. (No longer available online.) In: boarding.no. May 6, 2003, archived from the original on February 25, 2012 ; Retrieved November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ nrk.no - Kommunen redder flyselskap, December 2, 2004 (Norwegian) ( memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 17, 2014
4. ^ Thomas Kothe-Næss: Ørland kjøper flyselskap. In: Address authorizations . February 21, 2005, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
5. ↑ Paul Aage Hegvik: Ble passasjer 10,000. In: fosna-folket.no. July 26, 2005, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
6. ↑ fosna-folket.no - Ørland får flyselskap, November 4, 2005 (Norwegian) ( memento of October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 17, 2014
7. ↑ Midtbø, Mia Kristin: Flere flyr til og fra Fosen. In: Address authorizations . March 17, 2007, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
8. ↑ fosna-folket.no - Flere flyavganger fra Fosen, July 28, 2006 (Norwegian) ( memento of October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 17, 2014
9. ↑ Får fly from Fagernes. In: oa.no. March 14, 2008, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
10. ↑ avisa-valdres.no - Fagernes-Trondheim på 37 minutter, February 9, 2008 (Norwegian) ( memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 17, 2014
11. ↑ Paul Aage Hegvik: Air Norway mister flyruten Fagernes - Oslo. In: fosna-folket.no. January 11, 2009, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
12. ↑ Paul Aage Hegvik: Fremdeles Håp for flyruta. In: fosna-folket.no. August 18, 2009, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
13. ↑ Paul Aage Hegvik: Air Norway med tv-annonse i MGP. In: fosna-folket.no. December 4, 2009, accessed November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
14. ↑ ch-aviation - Air Norway to suspend operations for four months, November 28, 2016 (English), accessed on June 26, 2017
15. ^ Elisabeth Aas: Millionstøtte til flyrute. In: Norsk rikskringkasting . June 12, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2014 (Norwegian). 
16. ↑ airnorway.no - Rutetider ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Norwegian), accessed June 26, 2017 
17. ↑ http://www.northflying.com/script/site/page.asp?artid=17&cat_id=16 ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Norwegian), accessed on November 14, 2014

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