Norwegian reports strong improvement in earnings

During the second quarter, Norwegian’s total revenue was almost 5.9 BNOK, up 16% from the same quarter last year while Norwegian’s long-haul routes had a revenue growth of 60%. Norwegian’s production growth for this quarter was 8%, while the company’s traffic growth was 15%. Norwegian’s pre-tax result (EBT) for the 2nd quarter 2015 was 456 MNOK, an improvement of 593 MNOK from the previous year. The load factor for this period was 85% with strong progress in all of Norwegian’s markets. This also applies to the long-haul operation, where the load factor was over 90% and the passenger number more than doubled since the same period last year. During the second quarter, the airline carried 324,000 passengers on its long-haul network. This means that passenger figures for the long-haul operation has more than doubled since the same period last year, where the passenger number was 139,000. Norwegian currently operates 434 routes in Europe, USA and Asia – 21 of which are long-haul routes. All in all, Norwegian has 28 long-haul destinations for sale, with more to come within just a few weeks, including London Gatwick – Boston. During the second quarter, Norwegian took delivery of a new 787 Dreamliner and two Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Today, Norwegian has a long-haul fleet of eight Dreamliner aircraft. Four more Dreamliners will be added to the fleet next year; all of which will be a bigger version of the ones Norwegian operates today.