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Norwegian Air Shuttle is a low-cost airline operating from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain and the United Kingdom. As of December 2012, it operates to 87 airports in 25 countries across three continents, from its operating bases. Norwegian was founded in 1993 as a regional airline to operate routes for Braathens SAFE in Western Norway. It became a domestic, main-haul low-cost carrier from 1 September 2002, when it took into use Boeing 737-300. In 2006, Norwegian Air Shuttle established its first non-Norwegian base at Warsaw Frédéric Chopin Airport in Poland. A year later, Norwegian bought the Swedish low-cost carrier FlyNordic, which was merged into Norwegian a year later.
The airline has bases at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen; Stockholm-Arlanda Airport; Copenhagen Airport;Helsinki-Vantaa; Bergen Airport, Flesland; Trondheim Airport, Værnes, Gran Canaria Airport, Alicante International Airport, London Gatwick Airport, Göteborg Landvetter Airport, and Stavanger Airport, Sola with the main technical base located at the latter.
Destinations
The list shows airports that have been served by Norwegian Air Shuttle currently and previously. It excludes airports only operated by charter services. The list includes the country, city and the airport's name, with the airline's hubs marked. The list also contains notifications of destinations that are marked non-continuous and if they are seasonal, and for dates revealing the first flight to the new respective destination. All destinations below are operated by Norwegian, but some of them are operated by Norwegian Long Haul.
Airports that were offering service to Norwegian before the year of 2003 are mostly airports where the airline did regional turboprop services for Braathens SAFE, prior to their inclusion in the SAS Group, which in turn led to the start of the current jet operation.
Subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Norwegian Long Haul has initiated routes to Bangkok, transatlantic routes to New York City and Fort Lauderdale in 2013 and will expand in 2014 with routes to Los Angeles, Oakland / San Francisco and Orlando (Florida), all from Scandinavia. The airline also plans to operate flights to Cape Town and Durban in South Africa, as well as Delhi in India and Hong Kong in China.