According to the Newspaper, us transportdepartementet given the English permission to operate “transportation of persons, property, and mail from any place or places within any member state of The european union (…) to any place or places in the united STATES”.
the News does, naturally enough, Norwegian ceo Bjørn Kjos very happy.
We are very pleased that the u.s. government finally has given our EU company permission to fly to from the united STATES, ” says ceo Bjørn Kjos in a press release.
Fear the asian labor
Of the order goes forth that it is given already 22. november and the permit shall be effective from the 2. December. In the order named, too, that the american transportdepartementet has made its final decision in the matter.
English has been waiting for three years on this permission, as politicians and airlines have been trying to get stopped. According to the news agency AP decision is a defeat for several major u.s. airlines and their unions.
They have accused Norwegian in order to have circumvented arbeidsmiljølov and taxation act with its irish subsidiary. The union for pilots in the airline Southwest Airlines (Swapa) is calling on the United states future president Donald Trump is about to intervene and change the decision.
Swapa hope that when the president Trump will seize the opportunity to reverse even a mistake by Obama, ” says captain Jon Weaks, president of Swapa, in a press release, the first courtesy of the VG.
Also Norwegian Here are skeptical, because they fear that the asian kabinpersonell can outperform the american and european labor.
Vegard Einan, vice president of Parat.
Photo: Poppe, Cornelius / NTB scanpix
We know that the English have used asian labour, and that they want to open the routes and aircraft to other parts of the world. We fear that u.s. and european workers will not have the chance to compete with the wages and working conditions from other parts of the world, ” says Vegard Einan, vice president of Parat, the Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK.
– continue global expansion
Norwegian spokesman Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen says to VG that the company now has plans to hire several hundred americans.
– This means that Norwegian can continue the global expansion with full force and open new routes to exciting destinations all over the world. The approval also means that we can create many new jobs both in Europe and the united STATES, and contribute to local value creation through increased tourism, ” says Kjos, according to the press release.
Norwegian Air International (NAI) has until now flown on the parent company’s license. Trade unions both in Europe and the united STATES objected to the establishment of the subsidiary.
Thursday, it became known that the EU had lost patience and accused Washington for violation of the Open Skies agreement that allows airlines in the EUROPEAN union and the united STATES the right to fly over each other’s territories. The EUROPEAN union demanded that the case should be settled by three arbitrators, but now see it thus appears that it is already resolved.
Ready bedyrer that they basically do not have any desire to prevent the company’s expansion and now takes the decision to intelligence.
Our opportunity is the influence, it is located before the decision was taken. After that we were dragged into the matter, we have promoted our vision and our arguments. But when the government of the united STATES and the EUROPEAN union have made this decision, so isn’t there something we can or want to appeal, or oppose in any way, ” says Einan to the NRK.
English has been waiting for three years on permission from the united STATES.
Photo: Larsen, Haakon Mosvold / NTB scanpix
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