Norwegian and Widerøe carried a combined total of 2,698,173 passengers in September. Norwegian transported 2,302,536 passengers, while Widerøe carried 395,637.
Chief Executive Geir Karlsen said: “September was a strong month in terms of both passenger numbers and load factor. This confirms that we have an attractive network well adapted to our customers’ travel needs. Widerøe continues to perform well, and I am very pleased with the operational performance and regularity they are delivering.”
Norwegian’s capacity in September was 3,603 million available seat kilometres (ASK), an increase of 2% compared with last year. Revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) reached 3,118 million, up 3%. The load factor was 86.6%, representing an improvement of 1.4 percentage points year-on-year. The airline operated an average of 89 aircraft during the month.
Widerøe reported 202 million seat kilometres in capacity, an 11% rise compared with September 2024. Passenger traffic was 148 million seat kilometres, while the load factor stood at 73.4%, almost unchanged from last year.
Punctuality for Norwegian was 78.9%, while Widerøe achieved 94.0%. Regularity, defined as the proportion of scheduled flights operated, was 99.1% for Norwegian and 98.4% for Widerøe. Both carriers experienced disruptions due to temporary airspace closures in Denmark and Norway following suspected drone activity. Almost 40% of Norwegian’s cancellations were linked to the closures at Copenhagen and Oslo airports.
