DON YOUNG CONGRESSMAN FOR ALL A LASKA 

WASHINGTON OFFICE: 

2314 RAYBURN BUILDING 

WASHINGTON, DC 20515 

202-225-5765 

The Honorable Anthony Fox ' 

Secretary of Transportation 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. 

Washington, DC 20590 

Dear Secretary Foxx: 

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March 20, 2014 

COMMITTEE ON 

NATURAL RESOURCES 

CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON 

INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE AFFAIRS 

COMMITTEE ON 

TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE 

REPUBLICAN 

POLICY COMMITTEE 

I write to express deep concern over the application before your Department by Norwegian Air 

International Limited (NAI) to operate into the U.S. as a foreign air carrier. Approval of this application 

would not be in the public interest. 

The NAI application proposes a global outsourcing business that will put U.S. airlines and their 

employees at a competitive disadvantage. Indeed, this airline bearing the name "Norwegian" describes 

itself in the application as "a fo reign carrier of Ireland." NAI's application provides little information 

about itself or its plans, but it appears to be in the same corporate fami ly with another carrier, a rapidlygrowing low-cost airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS). For one thing, the CEO of NAI, named in the 

application as Asgeir Nyseth, is the Chief Operating Officer of NAS. For another, NAI is seeking an 

operating license from Irish aviation authorities, a step that NAS previously signaled it would take. 

NAS has stated that to conduct its new long-haul operations it will seek to register its aircraft and 

receive an air operator's certificate from a European Union country whose labor Jaws will allow 

outsourcing of aircrew beyond the EU. NAS/NAI has chosen Ireland and stated that it plans to operate 

this Irish subsidiary-registered aircraft to fl y from Norway and other EU points to the United States . . 

These flights will be operated by outsourced lower-wage aircrew, based in Southeast Asia, under 

individual employment contracts governed by Singapore law. It is clear that NAS intends to use NAI as 

its Irish affiliate to bring its plan to fruition. 

This business model is designed expressly to undermine fair wages and working conditions. It 

would also put U.S. carriers who have to compete against it at a competitive disadvantage. Finally, 

approval of NAI's application for authority would be inconsistent with the Congressionally-established 

public interest as set forth in the aviation statutes and runs afoul of the current EU-U.S. Air Transport 

Agreement. 

510-140328-010 . 

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I hope you will reject this misguided application and thank you for your consideration of this 

critical matter. 

Sincerely, 

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