Norwegian thinking bigger amid cold war with Ryanair

One of the interesting subplots from the recent Ryanair horror show is the cold war between Michael O'Leary's carrier and Norwegian. Early last month Ryanair CCO David O'Brien said that the airline was confident of interlining with Norwegian, feeding short-haul passengers to its transatlantic services. The only issue in the way was getting their respective IT systems to link together. But that plan nosedived in spectacular fashion, after O'Leary said recently that "given our concerns over Norwegian's financial ability ... we are focusing now our discussions with Air Europa and Aer Lingus" for interlining. That attack came just days after a deal was struck between EasyJet and Norwegian that would see the former selling the latter's services on one platform, a deal that surely ruffled feathers at Ryanair HQ. <br/>