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Airline Norwegian says passenger numbers up this summer

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Airline Norwegian says passenger numbers up this summer
A Norwegian aircraft on the tarmac at Aalborg Airport. Photo: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix

Low-cost airline Norwegian says it is operating flights close to full capacity in a marked improvement on performance in recent years.

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Traffic figures for the company for July show that seat occupancy on flights was 95 percent, the highest level for several years.

A total of 2.2 million passengers used the company last month, three times as many as in the Covid-affected month of July 2021.

“It has been a good summer for Norwegian,” CEO Geir Karlsen said in a statement on Thursday.

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“We had the highest occupancy level for many years in July and operated almost all flights despite many and major challenges for aviation in Europe,” he said.

July 2019 saw a higher number of passengers fly with Norwegian, however. The total that month was 3.7 million.

The airline has struggled in recent years including before the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in it cutting long haul services and filing for bankruptcy protection in 2020.

 

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