EU-US Impasse Over Norwegian Air Shuttle Headed to Arbitration

The European Commission has informed U.S. officials that it intends to seek via arbitration proceedings a resolution to the dispute over the excessive delay by the U.S. in granting operating permission to Norwegian Air International's Irish subsidiary, Norwegian Air Shuttle (NAS). It is the EU's position that the US-EU Open Skies Agreement requires the U.S. to approve NAS's application without delay. This would be the first invocation of the Agreement's arbitration clause.