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– Now we smile from ear to ear. We feel like we’ve won the world’s biggest trophy, says booth manager Hege Eldholm. Now that his Stavanger base is temporarily closed, he lives with three other Norwegian employees in a collective in Gardermoen.
FEELING: Booth managers Hege Eldholm (ex.), Yvonne Lilleskare, Beate Vinkler Rasmussen and Agnete Nissen attend the management press conference. At the same time, friends call to congratulate.
Hanna Kristin Hjardar, E24
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ULLENSAKER (E24): “It is nothing less than a historic day,” says Niels Smedegaard, the airline’s president, at a digital press conference on Monday morning.
Hege Eldholm and her colleagues Beate Vinkler Rasmussen, Agnete Nissen and Yvonne Lilleskare cry on a sofa a few kilometers from Oslo airport.
– It is wonderful to think that now everything will return slowly but surely again. This is the first day in the new Norwegian, says Eldholm.
About an hour and a half after the digital fate meeting began, the message came: Shareholders overwhelmingly voted for the bailout package the Norwegian administration has unveiled.
Therefore, everything now indicates that the company will be able to meet the requirements for the state crisis package, and that the company is saved from bankruptcy.
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Stressful week
Norwegian employees have recently been demanding.
– After yesterday I felt a little calmer, but I’ve been stressed all week, says cabin manager Rasmussen, who has worked at the company since 2004.
– You never know. There can be a lot of things going on in the scenes that we can’t understand, says Hege Eldholm. She has worked in Norwegian for 17 years.
On Friday, the E24 chief and her colleagues followed what they feared might be one of their last flights for the company.
– We’ve been watching since we got home before the weekend. When we got off the plane on Friday, we went home and were a little tired. We didn’t know if it was our last flight, she says Monday morning.
COLLECTIVE JOY: A few kilometers from Gardermoen, Beate Vinkler Rasmussen, Yvonne Lilleskare, Agnete Nissen and Hege Eldholm live the days they are at work. On Monday they think it will be more fun to get up in the air.
Hanna Hjardar, E24
– Thank God
When E24 met Eldholm three days ago, it was clear to him that he loved his job.
– Do you want to find one again? I’ve been thinking about it a lot. What can I do? Serve stirring coffee, he said.
On Monday, he emphasizes that he has many more qualities than he saw.
– Of course, I can do much more than serve coffee in turbulence, but now I will also be allowed to continue with that. Thank God for that, she exclaims and laughs.
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– The doubt has come
Less than an hour before the general meeting began on Monday, the airline announced that it expects to meet the requirements of the state’s loan guarantee scheme.
After a very dramatic weekend, the airline stated that it had secured further support from the leasing companies and that it had finally reached an agreement with the bondholders on the bailout plan. During a May 18 meeting, lender groups will formally vote on the crisis plan.
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While the administration is holding a press conference on the television screen on Monday, there is a gap between cheers and tears of joy in the Norwegian collective’s living room in Gardermoen.
– We have been waiting for this day. Emotions have been going up and down, but inside we have felt it will go well, says Rasmussen.
– There have been many who have had opinions and opinions. Occasionally, I’ve wondered if I’m the only positive thinker, and then the question arose, adds Eldholm.
NEW DAY: Booth Chief Yvonne Lilleskare will fly to Ålesund and Kristiansand before celebrating the Norwegian news with pizza and rose wine.
Hanna Hjardar, E24
pizza party
After the crown crisis seriously hit Norway, Norwegian decided to temporarily close its bases in Stavanger and Bergen. As a result, booth managers Eldholm, Beate Vinkler Rasmussen and Yvonne Lilleskare were transferred to Oslo.
Now they have moved into the travelers’ home that Agnete Nissen has rented for several years. She is also a cabin manager, but has been fired for the past six weeks.
– Now I hope there are a few more flights on time, so I can come back soon, she says Monday.
Because while several of the colleagues she lives with are preparing to fly to Svalbard, Tromsø, Kristiansand and Ålesund, she must stay home.
– Now I will make pizza until the others come back tonight, and then there will be another glass of rosé or two too, he says to the new applause.
– Now we will create a new Norwegian, and we will be allowed to join from the beginning, again, says Eldholm.
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