What Happened?
New York, NY-based Norwegian Appointed Kurt Simonsen as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, commercially branded “Norwegian”, is a low-cost airline listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Norwegian is the second largest airline in Scandinavia and third largest low cost carrier in Europe. More than 25 million passengers chose to fly on its network in 2014. Norwegian has a route portfolio that stretches across Europe into North Africa and the Middle East, as well as long-haul flights to the US and Southeast Asia. The company has close to 450 routes to over 135 destinations on sale and employs almost 6000 people in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, UK, Spain, South East Asia and the US. The company has over 250 undelivered aircraft on firm order. Norwegian was founded in 1993 and its headquarter is in Fornebu, Norway. In June 2015, Norwegian was voted Europe`s best low-cost carrier of the year by the renowned SkyTrax World Airline Awards for the third year running. Norwegian offers better leg room than most competitors, in-flight WiFi, world-class punctuality and a fleet of 100 aircraft with an average age of under 4 years.
About the Person
Kurt Simonsen is Chief Information Officer at Norwegian. Previously, Kurt held various senior IT leadership roles in the industry.
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