Widerøe is Northern Europe’s largest regional airliner and serves an extensive route network connecting the smaller airports to larger hubs, from where Norwegian Air flies. Norwegian Air will pay €97 million for the shares in Widerøe, which will maintain its logo on its green-painted propeller aircraft. Widerøe is today the airliner in the European north with most take-offs and landings per day (about 400): it serves 40 domestic destinations and in the Finnmark region it has daily flights to 10 airports.

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