Norwegian Reports High Punctuality and Strong Passenger Growth in September

Norwegian experienced a strong passenger growth of 23 percent in September. During the past 12 months, 15 million passengers choose to travel with Norwegian. The overall punctuality for September was 91 percent and the load factor was 81 percent.

A total of 1,487,264 passengers flew with Norwegian in September, 23 percent more than the same period last year. For September, the traffic growth (RPK) was 27 percent and the load factor was 81 percent, up 4 percentage points from September 2010.

“During the past 12 months, 15 million passengers choose to travel with Norwegian. Our passengers appreciate more brand new aircraft and in-flight WiFi combined with a record high regularity and very high punctuality. The high load factor is also important from an environmental perspective,” said CEO Bjorn Kjos of Norwegian.

Punctuality and regularity
The Group’s overall punctuality was 90,7 percent for September and the company operated nearly 100 percent of its scheduled flights during the month. The high regularity means that Norwegian very seldom cancels their flights.

Norwegian cares about the environment
Norwegian is committed to actively engage in and support a sustainable environmental policy, and to continue to reduce emissions from aviation Norwegian has a clear goal of reducing emissions per flown passenger kilometer by minimum 25 percent in the period 2008 to 2015. The single most effective initiative to reduce emissions is investing in new aircraft.

In September the carbon emissions per passenger kilometers was 9 percent lower than the same month last year.