Here is a little bit from an article on The Guardian UK online. This guy will make Lorenzo look like a saint. And our guys out flying the line are overwhelmingly clueless, complaining about their new uniforms and stuff. Or filing lawsuits in Houston.
Bjørn Kjos, NAS CEO
He claims politicians have yet to wake up to the opportunities that cheap air travel can bring: he thinks the numbers of incoming tourists add up to millions of jobs to be created in Europe. That far outweighs any race to the bottom in a few thousand airline employees' jobs, he said. "If I was a politician, I wouldn't give a sh*t about the airline side." In Europe, he said: "We've exported all our industry to the far east. At least we have a very good museum to show them, they will have to come spend money in our museum."
Oh yeah, and this:
Norwegian is Europe’s fourth-largest discount airline. Until recently, it was little known outside Scandinavia. Then, in 2012, Kjos made the largest airplane order in European history, buying 222 jets from Boeing and Airbus Group (AIR:FP) for $21.5 billion. Most of these are narrow-bodied Boeing 737 MAX8s and Airbus A320neos that will begin arriving in 2016. Kjos will use them to increase Norwegian’s presence in Europe and challenge the top three discount carriers: Ireland’s Ryanair (RYA:ID), Britain’s EasyJet (EZJ:LN), and Germany’s Air Berlin. Last year, Norwegian acquired its first two Dreamliners, which list for as much as $289 million each. Kjos is using these wider-bodied jets to offer cheaper international flights to distant places such as New York, Los Angeles, and Bangkok, undercutting established carriers in Europe and the U.S. Norwegian’s $180 tickets between New York and Oslo cost 10 percent of the equivalent ticket on British Airways. In effect, Kjos wants Norwegian to become a global version of Southwest Airlines (LUV).