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Norwegian 'fighting for survival' after 'challenging' year

Air
James Chapple
7 January 2021

Norwegian boss Jacob Schram has said the airline is "fighting for survival" owing to the slump in demand due to ongoing Covid travel restrictions in Europe.

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Just shy of 130,000 passengers travelled with Norwegian in December, down 94% on the same period last year.


Flights operated on a load factor of 52.3%, down 31 percentage points year-on-year. This means the majority of Norwegian’s December flights operated half full, at best.


Total capacity in available seat kilometres and total passenger traffic in revenue passenger kilometres were both down 98% compared to December 2019.

"The pandemic continues to have a negative impact on our business as it has had since March 2020," said Schram.