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Aircraft container routes in Northern Norway. Former Widerøe-captain John K. Giæver (62) will raise up to 19 aircraft and compete with his former employer.
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Widerøe extend the contract with the state kortbanenettet from Trondheim to Kirkenes. The agreement applies for five years from march next year.
We were a little bit surprised that we won all the squares, but have stretched us too far to manage it, says widerøe’s managing director Stein Nilsen.
the fight was former Widerøe-captain John K. Giæver through the company Fly the Viking as, and Danish Air Transport.
Giæver searched in four of the 13 ruteområder – in the Lofoten islands, Troms and Finnmark. He believes there was never real competition for the tender. Now he will start the airline in competition with Widerøe without government contracts.
“Aircraft have alive”
I don’t think it was possible to get some of the tendered routes, because the Aircraft has going for them, ” says Giæver to DN.
Widerøe refutes it.
It is incomprehensible. We have competed with several, and the cheapest tender wins the forward, ” says Nilsen.
the Ministry says in a press release that the application from the Flying Viking was rejected because the company does not have a valid license that covers the operations specified in the offer.
We have the license, and would only prove that we be able to upgrade the before the tender start-up next year, ” says Giæver.
the Ministry rejects the allegations.
of Course, there is real competition on tendered routes, but it requires that the individual provider meets the requirements in anbudsgrunnlaget, ” says secretary of state Tom Cato Karlsen (Frp).
Plan B
Giæver will hardly complain that the Aircraft has done a clean table.
– No, we don’t have the time to. We are going to fly anyway, ” he says.
Plan B is to start up in competition with the Aircraft on routes without a tender. Aircraft Viking has had one 31-year-old aircraft of the type Dash 8 with space for about 50 passengers.
– There are many routes.
Where then?
– Both in the south and the north. There will be more aircraft on the continuous belt and the boot in the course of the winter. Ticket sales start in the course of a few weeks. We have the option for up to 19 aircraft, ” says Giæver.
Giæver has been the investor, including in the transport company Torghatten and other companies along the coast, including in real estate. He had a ligningsformue of nok 19.7 million and revenue of 3.5 million last year.
– Aircraft Viking-funded by me and another investor, John Amandus Olsen, says Giæver.
Olsen is from Austevoll outside Bergen and has ownership interests in companies within the fisheries and offshore. He had a fortune of 40 million and income of 8.3 million last year.
the Competition authority carried out the raid at the Flying Viking in august after suspected illegal price-fixing with Danish Air Transport. Authority has not been involved in the assessment of the tender and says they still work with the case.
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