Norwegian lost 350 million on a pilot strike – Aftenbladet.no

Pilot strike, which lasted for eleven days from February 28, has strongly influenced Norwegian traffic figures for March.

In all 1,726,180 passengers flew with Norwegian during the month, down 4 percent from March year. For comparison experienced SAS growth in its passenger numbers of 6.1 percent in March, largely because of the strike by the competitor.

– This is loss and loss of income we have to live with, says Norwegian’s CEO Bjørn Kjos.

Animal cancellations

Norwegian own calculations, the strike cost the airline about 350 million.

Nearly 2,000 flights were canceled due to the strike, mainly in Scandinavia . They canceled flights totaled about 120 million in lost revenue.

Meanwhile, the company spent 110 million to safeguard passengers who were affected by the strike. The money was provided for the purchase of tickets with other companies and food and hotel for stranded passengers.

It is also estimated that airlines will have a loss of income in the form of lost bookings come calculated to 120 million.

In growth in Europe and the United States

On the plus side note Kjos at Norwegian experiencing growth in the number of passengers outside Scandinavia.

– Fortunately, we continue to attract many new customers in Europe and the United States that offset customers in Scandinavia was forced to fly with competitors. Had we not had such a large customer base and many hardworking employees also outside Scandinavia, the situation would have been even more difficult, he said.

English can also be satisfied with an increased filling of the planes. It lay at 84.2 percent in March, up 6.4 percentage points from the same month last year.

The strike went hand hard over the regularity of flights. It lay at 86.0 percent in March, compared with 97.2 percent for competitor SAS.

Passenger Boom SAS

SAS could enroll on passenger boom when the airline presented its traffic figures Thursday. In all 2.5 million passengers traveled with SAS in March, an increase of 6.1 percent from the same month last year.

The airline increased liner capacity by 0.5 per cent in March when capacity was moved from charter to liner.

SAS admitted that the good figures were “partially affected” by labor disputes in airlines in Scandinavia and Europe. In addition to pilot strike in English on strike pilots of Lufthansa in four days later in March. (© NTB)

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