During the pandemic, as some airlines struggled for survival, some saw opportunities to begin something that, under different circumstances, perhaps would not have been viable. One of those examples is Norse Atlantic, the long-haul low-cost carrier, which took over Norwegian’s Boeing 787s to have another shot at making the long-haul low-cost business model work.
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