At the beginning of the corona pandemic, the low-cost airline from Norway announced that flight operations should be suspended for almost a year. Now the plan is to say goodbye to the point-to-point concept.

Norwegian presents its strategy out of the crisis. In the future, the airline wants to increasingly rely on the hub-and-spoke model and offer fewer direct connections. This is why short-haul flights are to be flown more frequently in order to take advantage of "the growth in long-haul operations in and outside Europe".

The focus should be placed on routes between Europe and other continents that are still unsupervised, such as ch-aviation.com reported. In the above-mentioned hub-and-spoke method, passengers are first flown from their place of departure to a central hub in order to continue from there with other passengers from other areas to their actual destination. In this way, smaller regional airports in particular are connected to the global air traffic network.