Airlines in a Crisis

A single airline could completely dominate a reopened Rygge airport. Think all the slots just for itself with the whole airport designed around its own needs. Including passenger sluicing and offices. All available relatively reasonable since its closed at the moment with no reopening in site without an  anchor airline. It could certainly become a hub and an easy & smooth airport to connect through. We are thinking a transatlantic hub with incoming connections plus feeding and drawing from the Oslo east and Swedish market. Remember Oslo east is seen as the lesser part of Oslo with a lot of suburban somewhat high rise sprawl and even more OBOS. The last is the social way of financing your housing needs where only part of the loan is yours and part is a joint with the other apartment owners. This for they who don't have the financial strength to obtain the full mortgage themselves. Parking could be made much cheaper at Rygge than OSL where prices are on the expensive side and...

Now when we have argued that an airline should be based near an airport to not only remember what its all about but also have some commonality so that management can be closer to the action, and office space can be co-used with operational staff, where would Norwegian with time move to. We have already established that Oslo Fornebu closed years ago as an airport and since all the land is sold off for building offices and housing it is not coming back. This means that Norwegian's current office has become so city center near that its prime real estate, and in the expensive Oslo southwest as well so a quick property developer financed buy and flip makes sense, leaving money over for somewhere else. The most likely new location would be somewhere near the OSL Oslo Airport. That is after all Norwegian's main base, where they retracted to for the pandemic lockdown, and where their headoffice management and staff have to go anyway if they want to travel anywhere within its network...