Press
release
No.: 72/2002
Date: 18.06.02
Seven air carriers want to operate
regional scheduled air services in Norway
The Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications has
received tenders to operate regional scheduled air services within Norway from
seven air carriers:
- Coast Air AS, Norway
- KATO Airline AS, Norway
- Arctic Air AS, Norway
- Danish Air Transport AS, Denmark
- Norwegian Air Shuttle AS, Norway
- Widerøe's Flyveselskap ASA, Norway
- European Executive Express AB, Sweden
On May 10th 2002 The Ministry of Transport and
Communicatons invited all EEA air carriers to submit tenders. The invitation to
tender included 15 route areas, divided into 20 tenders. Ten route areas
comprised a single tender and the remaining route areas comprised two tenders
each. When a route area comprises two tenders and for some predefined
combinations of routes, the carriers could combine route areas when submitting
tenders.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications will now go
through the tenders in order to choose which air carrier that will be awarded
the exclusive right to operate the different routes. The choise of operator can
at the earliest take place on August 19th 2002.
The exclusive right to operate a route will be awarded the
tender requiring the lowest compensation for each route area and also fulfil
the requirements set by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. These
requirements include the public service obligations as to frequency, seating
capacity, aircraft category and maximum fares.
Se also:
The invitation to tender, May 10th
2002
Press release,
May 10th 2002
