Norwegian is a Scandinavian low-cost airline group based in Norway. The parent company, Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, was founded in 1993 as a regional airline and began low-cost flights with Boeing 737 aircraft in 2002. Its head office is at Fornebu, near Oslo. Flights are operated by Norwegian Air Shuttle and its Swedish subsidiary, Norwegian Air Sweden, and the group also owns the Norwegian regional airline Widerøe. Norwegian is not part of a global airline alliance.
The network is built around the four Nordic capitals: Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda and Helsinki. Norwegian also has bases in Bergen, Riga and several Spanish airports. It flies domestic routes in Norway, Sweden and Finland, links between the Nordic countries, and flights to more than 120 destinations across Europe, with seasonal routes to the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, North Africa and the Middle East.
The fleet of about 95 aircraft is all Boeing 737, a mix of 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 jets.
