BREAKING Norwegian to halt all intercontinental flights and lay off 90% of staff

Norwegian has extended plans to cancel flights and temporarily lay off staff, in the face of “stagnating demand and enforced travel restrictions by authorities worldwide”.

Norwegian is a major carrier on transatlantic routes from London’s Gatwick airport, but the new US restrictions have effectively curtailed these operations, and the carrier now says that it will have to cancel 85 per cent of flights and temporarily lay off 90 per cent of staff.

All intercontinental flights have been cancelled, with the exception of services between Scandinavia and Thailand which will operate until the end of March.

From March 21 Norwegian will be reduced to operating a scaled down domestic schedule within Norway and between the Nordic capitals, as well as a few European flights.

Details of Norwegian’s reduced schedule – starting March 25