Airlines in a Crisis

Looks like some airline systems are not suited to quick adjustments in the necessary flexibility of the schedule. As CoVid19 fears lightens the careful comeback steps of airlines are being overtaken by a surge in customer demands as a result of constant new re-openings of borders. Prices are going up without airlines responding quickly with additional flights. Sample the prices close in for the 1 hour Oslo to Copenhagen route lay above Euro 500.- It used to be in the 120.- range and have been sold as low as35.- Many airlines are used to a long time perspective looking at the forward bookings weeks and months in advance. That is no good in what is more like a suddenly emerging market. When customers in addition are vary about booking long in advance due to sudden and the airlines lack of immediate refunds for previous  flight cancellations, they therefore book only for next week or the week after. Then you need to add flights in that time perspective. It is not a difficult oper...

The one part of Norwegian's top leaders that seems to be doing ok even in Corona times is Finance represented by Geir Karlsen. But then he was the CEO for a few months. On the other hand this concurrent story of delayed aand abandoned presentations of the current staate of affairs is wearing a litle on the mantle gained during the financial restructuring of the airline. Operations is not doing well in neither running an airline consiting of a fleet of 7 planes. Nor can they organize the and neither do they have a plan for how to expand and test the waters for other possiblilities. With that we can put a minus on the PR and press handling department because the way they have defended this shambles reminds us of the days of Comical Ali. Engineering also seems pretty distant if they think having only 7 planes in action instead of rotating the whole fleet to keep it current and avoid massive maintenance costs at the end. And what about that other Dreamliner fleet where nothing is m...