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Look what Southwest and JetBlue did in America. It should be very cheap to fly. It will be cheap to fly long haul, Kjos said in an interview. If you manage to fly for low prices, you will bring millions of jobs because of all the tourists who will fly into the U.S.
Boeing hotels in san francisco mexico has a lot riding on Norwegian s success. Just as Southwest leveraged the 737 to start the low-cost carrier business in the U.S., Norwegian has ordered 10 new 787 Dreamliners to get its low-cost, long-haul business started.
hotels in san francisco mexico There is a so-called Open Skies agreement between the U.S. and the European Union one that was extended to include Norway (not an EU country) that already allows Norwegian to fly from anywhere in Europe to anywhere in the U.S.
So Kjos has set up Norwegian s long-haul subsidiary in Ireland, an EU member country with no restrictions on flights to Asia. Kjos needs the U.S. government to grant him a foreign air-carrier permit as an Irish airline.
This summer, it hopes to operate out of Gatwick airport in London and to offer low-cost flights from London and other European destinations to New York, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Oakland and Los Angeles, as well as to Bangkok.
Norwegian s application to operate as an Irish carrier is merely a flag of convenience. to avoid Norway s labor laws and lower labor costs ... thus giving (Norwegian) a competitive advantage on transatlantic routes in direct competition with U.S. carriers.
Kjos, a down-to-earth, open chief executive who also writes spy thrillers and is a former U.S.-trained Norwegian hotels in san francisco mexico fighter pilot, dismisses this critique as a self-interested smoke screen from competitors trying to protect their most lucrative international routes.
Norwegian must pay its cabin crews the going rate where they live, whether in New York, Florida or Thailand, Kjos said. It makes sense to set up bases at these big leisure destinations, rather than in Oslo, to streamline the operation, he said.
As for the pilots, he said they must have pilots licenses approved by the European aviation authorities. He said he has hired plenty of retired KLM pilots, many with more than 20 years of experience.
One influential U.S. player who publicly supports Norwegian s application is John Byerly, a former assistant secretary of transportation in the State Department and a revered figure in the aviation world.
It would be inconsistent with what we were trying to achieve in the U.S./EU agreement if Norwegian, the first serious low-cost carrier to enter the market with a new business model, were to be denied that opportunity, Byerly said.
In a piece of inconvenient timing for Norwegian, it garnered lots of bad publicity at year end when three different Dreamliner flights to Oslo suffered long delays, stranding passengers in New York, Fort Lauderdale and Bangkok for days.
This followed a series of 787 service glitches that caused serious delays in September and prompted hotels in san francisco mexico Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Ray Conner to fly to Oslo and offer Kjos his personal assurance of support.
One of those left passengers stranded in New York for three days because in attempting to fix a minor technical problem, maintenance technicians used the wrong procedure and made it into a huge problem.
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