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Norwegian Air Shuttle averts strike

Norwegian Air Shuttle has averted a crippling strike by reaching a last minute agreement with unions to grant them a form of collective bargaining across its new Danish and Norwegian arms.

Published: 19 May 2014 22:22 CEST
Norwegian Air Shuttle averts strike
A Norwegian Airlines Dreamliner landing in Stockholm - Photo: NTB/Scanpix
As a result of the deal struck on Sunday night, unions representing 1,300 cabin crew in Norway and Denmark have shelved a strike planned for the next few weeks. 
 
Hans-Erik Skjæggerud, who leads the Parat Union, said that Norwegian had granted the unions "collective agreements" that were "approximately equal" to the existing framework, allowing the union to continue to bargain for both Danish and Norwegian staff. 
 
As a result of the deal, Skjæggerud confirmed that Norwegian had would not act on threats made in a text message to employees last week to dissolve bases in Norway, transfer Danish staff to an agency and cancel free staff tickets. 
 
"It is good we reached a deal and that we can look forward," the company's chief executive Bjørn Kjos said in a statement.
 
The company's shares jumped in early morning trading after the news was announced, finishing the day up 4.3 percent. 
 
 
 
 
 

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Norwegian ranked most fuel efficient airline

Norwegian Air been ranked the world's most fuel efficient major airline in a new study released on Tuesday, thanks to its growing fleet of fuel efficient Dreamliner aircraft.

Published: 18 November 2015 13:20 CET
Norwegian ranked most fuel efficient airline
One of Norwegian Air Shuttle's Boeing 787 Dreamliners coming into land. Photo: Creative Commons
The study, by the International Council for Clean Transportation (ICCT), found that Norwegian used the least fuel per passenger of all the 20 major non-stop transatlantic carriers, using 51 percent less than the UK's BA. 
 
According to the study Norwegian's Scandinavian rival SAS was among the three least fuel efficient carriers, along with BA and Germany's Lufthansa.  Together, the three laggards account for some 20 percent of the transatlantic air travel market.
 
Air Berlin and Ireland's Aer Lingus came in second and third in the study, which the ICCT said was intended to provide greater insight into the fuel efficiency, and therefore carbon intensity, of international flights.
 
The study, which comes ahead of a Paris conference on climate change due to start November 30, showed Norwegian Air Shuttle, the world's seventh-largest low-cost airline, averaged 40 passenger kilometres per litre of fuel.
 
By comparison, Germany's second-largest airline Air Berlin had a fuel efficiency of 35 passenger kilometres per litre.
 
It was the US-based ICCT which helped to uncover the pollution cheating scandal at German auto giant Volkswagen in September after it tested actual emissions figures for diesel cars and found some Volkswagen models to be above permitted limits.
 
Noting the fuel efficiency disparities between the carriers, ICCT said seat configuration was a key factor in the results and that the average fuel burn of the aircraft used was also significant.
 
It also noted that first class and business class seats accounted for around a third of carbon emissions but only 14 percent of overall seats.
 
“The very high fuel efficiency of Norwegian Air Shuttle demonstrates the central role of technology in reducing CO2 emissions from the aviation sector,” the ICCT concluded.
 
“Airlines that invest in new, advanced aircraft are more fuel-efficient than airlines that use older, less efficient aircraft.”