Norwegian start-up Flyr plans 1 June launch

Flyr intends to operate its first services at the start of June using Boeing 737 aircraft, as the start-up seeks to become a new low-cost carrier for the Norwegian market. “We can build a lean organisation from the ground up,” said CE Tonje Wikstrom Frislid Wednesday. “We will have the advantage of starting without the heavy burden of an oversize, complex, inefficient organisation or tech structure.” Flyr intends to ramp up its operations from two aircraft in June to five in July and six to eight in the autumn, enabling it to operate from Oslo to seven destinations within Norway plus Copenhagen, Nice, Barcelona, Malaga and Alicante. Further routes across Scandinavia and Europe will follow. The start-up has secured the necessary airport slots to begin services, and ticket sales are set to begin in mid- or late April, depending on the progress of the pandemic. Flyr’s management envisages a 30-strong fleet of leased aircraft that is right-sized to its home market, meaning the carrier “is not dependent on expanding into less profitable markets in the Norwegian region”, says Wikstrom Frislid, who is a former vice-president for crew management at Norwegian.<br/>