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Wizz Air arrived on Thursday with news: investment in Norwegian domestic flights will double.
In reality, the company was going to start with a base in Gardermoen and two planes. Now the company will also open a base in Trondheim and will also install two aircraft there.
Wizz Air presented the new domestic routes on a map during the press conference, but something went wrong. The cities appear to be incorrectly located.
Professor and geographer Jan Kjetil Røed at NTNU confirms this.
– You risk ending up in Børgefjell if you go to Trondheim with this map, says Røed.
– In short, all cities are incorrectly placed, says Røed.
Let’s start at the top:
- Tromsø is a little too far inland. Tromsø is very well located towards the sea. So here it is a little too southeast.
- Bodø is very wrong. It seems to be a little south of Mo i Rana.
- Trondheim appears to be located in the Børgefjell National Park. Maybe by Majavatnet, a little north of Namsskogan.
- Ålesund is located northwest of Trondheim. Specifically in Fosen.
- Bergen is a little too far inland.
- Stavanger is a little further south. It seems to be on the cliff of Jæren or Bryne.
- Oslo Gardermoen appears to be located in Moss.
– What maps do you think this is based on?
– No, I do not know. But there are many maps. It’s not difficult to know where these big cities are, says Røed.
– They will fly passengers very badly, he says.
This is where the Wizz Air airports are, really
This is where the airports are actually located Photo: Graphics: Vetle Halvorsen and Andre Haugen / E24
Double the investment in Norway
In reality, the company was going to start with a base in Gardermoen and two planes. Now the company will also open a base in Trondheim and will also install two aircraft there.
Hungarian low-cost giant Wizz Air announced on October 6 that it will enter the Norwegian domestic market from November 5, 14 years after it started flying to Norway.
– We have already sold thousands of tickets and the response in the market has been very good. “We see that we can do more and that is what the market and the majority of Norwegians demand,” says Váradi about the decision.
The company has more than 900 routes to 162 destinations. Ten of these routes will be national in Norway. In addition, there are all the routes that the company makes between Norway and other European countries.
Wizz Air began flying to Norway in 2006, between Warsaw and Torp. In the following years, the company expanded strongly with routes from London and Eastern Europe to Norway.
