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sandandglass:
[3:30 am, Jan 29] Here are updates from LAX and JFK in the hours after a court order was issued. The order temporarily halts Trump’s Muslim ban and Customs and Border Protection (and others) are meant to be complying with it. These (unconfirmed) reports indicate that some people are having their rights violated.
It is worth mentioning that, while Norwegian Airlines sounds like a state airline, it is not. I saw that detail in these stories on my second read-through and sat bolt upright, because that is a very telling detail.
Norwegian is a highly controversial discount operator, with some of its fleet based in Norway, and some based in Ireland. Basing operations in Ireland lets them fly within the EU (NB: Norway is NOT a member nation of the EU), but beyond that, moving their base of operations out of Norway means they can hire pilots from anywhere, and indeed largely rely on a contract agency out of Singapore, meaning they’re abiding not by strict Norwegian labor law, nor by EU labor laws, but by the extremely lax Singaporean labor laws.
That may be tangential to the discussion at hand, but it is worth noting. Norwegian Airlines was given permits to fly to the US over the objections of a lot of the air industry and US lawmakers (here, Bernie Sanders excoriates them). (Those are recent news stories; it was 2016.)
It is not a coincidence that this airline would choose to be on the side of an illegal administration, is all I’m saying. They are not really Norwegian. I thought it worth mentioning, because I only knew about this because I was traveling to and from Norway during some of the controversy. It’s reasonable to assume the average American is not aware of this dimension of the story.
I initially saw the story and thought that Norwegian was refusing to obey the EO, and I was one of the people who liked that initial Tweet, but on a reread I realize that no, they were refusing to obey the stay. They were refusing to let the passenger off. They were defying the courts to uphold the EO. And I feel like a lot of people, not understanding what Norwegian really is, would have the same misunderstanding. So I just wanted to add that to this discussion. That’s who this is, specifically. This is not the state airline of Norway. This is a shady discount provider.
sandandglass:
[3:30 am, Jan 29] Here are updates from LAX and JFK in the hours after a court order was issued. The order temporarily halts Trump’s Muslim ban and Customs and Border Protection (and others) are meant to be complying with it. These (unconfirmed) reports indicate that some people are having their rights violated.
It is worth mentioning that, while Norwegian Airlines sounds like a state airline, it is not. I saw that detail in these stories on my second read-through and sat bolt upright, because that is a very telling detail.
Norwegian is a highly controversial discount operator, with some of its fleet based in Norway, and some based in Ireland. Basing operations in Ireland lets them fly within the EU (NB: Norway is NOT a member nation of the EU), but beyond that, moving their base of operations out of Norway means they can hire pilots from anywhere, and indeed largely rely on a contract agency out of Singapore, meaning they’re abiding not by strict Norwegian labor law, nor by EU labor laws, but by the extremely lax Singaporean labor laws.
That may be tangential to the discussion at hand, but it is worth noting. Norwegian Airlines was given permits to fly to the US over the objections of a lot of the air industry and US lawmakers (here, Bernie Sanders excoriates them). (Those are recent news stories; it was 2016.)
It is not a coincidence that this airline would choose to be on the side of an illegal administration, is all I’m saying. They are not really Norwegian. I thought it worth mentioning, because I only knew about this because I was traveling to and from Norway during some of the controversy. It’s reasonable to assume the average American is not aware of this dimension of the story.
I initially saw the story and thought that Norwegian was refusing to obey the EO, and I was one of the people who liked that initial Tweet, but on a reread I realize that no, they were refusing to obey the stay. They were refusing to let the passenger off. They were defying the courts to uphold the EO. And I feel like a lot of people, not understanding what Norwegian really is, would have the same misunderstanding. So I just wanted to add that to this discussion. That’s who this is, specifically. This is not the state airline of Norway. This is a shady discount provider.
