Norwegian is poised to unlock a vital £230m point out bailout just after investors backed a painful restructuring of the airline’s funds.
Shareholders authorised strategies on Monday for loan providers and aircraft leasing corporations to swap debts of additional than 10bn crowns (£770m) for shares in the provider.
The financial debt-for-equity swap was important for Norwegian to accessibility authorities support from Oslo just after operations were introduced to a in the vicinity of standstill by the coronavirus pandemic.
Norwegian, the third-most significant airline at Gatwick airport, was still left specifically uncovered by the world-wide crisis, obtaining racked up debts of additional than £6bn to gasoline a spectacular expansion programme in the latest several years.
The shareholder backing arrived just after a series of impassioned pleas by the airline’s founder and previous chief govt Bjorn Kjos.
Domestic media noted that he managed to alter the minds of various teams of investors