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Norway’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it has approved the planned acquisition by Norwegian Air<\/strong> of domestic rival Wideroe<\/strong> after previously warning it could block the deal.<\/p>\n

“We have now concluded that this acquisition will not significantly hinder effective competition in the Norwegian aviation market,” said Tina Soereide, the head of the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA).<\/p>\n

The deal, valued at 1.13 billion Norwegian crowns ($110 million) was announced in July, but the competition authority was concerned that the acquisition could significantly weaken competition in the market.<\/p>\n

The merger will leave only two carriers, Norwegian Air and SAS, to compete for customers in Norway.<\/p>\n

\u2192 Norwegian Air announces new routes for the 2024 summer season<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wideroe is Scandinavia’s largest regional-only airline, serving short-haul routes in a sparsely populated region with few train lines and challenging geography.<\/p>\n

“We are very happy with today’s decision from the NCA and that they have taken our inputs into account,” said Geir Karlsen, CEO of Norwegian.<\/p>\n

Stein Nilsen, CEO of Wideroe, which will continue to operate as a separate airline and brand, said he was looking forward to working with Norwegian and ensuring critical public infrastructure remains in Norwegian ownership.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t wish for a better Christmas present,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it has approved the planned acquisition by Norwegian Air of domestic rival…\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":141267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[603,600,230,197,269,1073,1020],"class_list":{"0":"post-146486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-airlines","8":"tag-aerolinea-en-2","9":"tag-aerolineas-en-2","10":"tag-airline","11":"tag-airlines","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-norwegian-air-en","14":"tag-wideroe-2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"pk-small":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",80,40,false],"pk-thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",300,150,false],"csco-small":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-80x80.jpg",80,80,true],"csco-intermediate":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"csco-thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-380x220.jpg",380,220,true],"csco-thumbnail-alternative":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"csco-thumbnail-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-380x190.jpg",380,190,true],"csco-medium":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-medium-alternative":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2-560x336.jpg",560,336,true],"csco-medium-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-large-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-extra-large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Wideroe-Embraer-E190-E2.jpg",800,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Redacci\u00f3n - Aviaci\u00f3n al D\u00eda","author_link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/author\/aad"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Norway’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it has approved the planned acquisition by Norwegian Air of domestic rival…","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146487,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146486\/revisions\/146487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}