Norwegian moves its Southern European corporate headquarters from El Prat to Cornellà

The Norwegian airline Norwegian is moving its corporate headquarters for Southern Europe from El Prat de Llobregat to Cornellà de Llobregat, a further step in the reorganization that the company began in 2018 and has accelerated due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With this change of location, the airline is reducing the area of its offices to 1,500 square meters, where 130 people currently work. The new space, under a rental agreement, is located in modules C and D on the first floor of building 8 of the World Trade Center Almeda Park business complex, owned by Merlin Properties.

Norwegian has maintained Barcelona as a center for its Southern European operations since 2015 and is currently one of the three decision centers along with the headquarters in Oslo (Norway) and Riga (Latvia), after closing those in London and Dublin.

The resizing of the corporate headquarters also responds to the company's adaptation to new work patterns, taking into account that many employees are not subject to a five-day work week, company sources explain.

The new offices will be fully operational by the end of this year after the adaptation and design process to be carried out by the real estate consultancy CBRE, which has managed this turnkey project.

In Spain, Norwegian offers 40 routes to Nordic countries from nine airports and has operational bases in Alicante and Malaga.

In this regard, the company assures that the move to Cornellà, although it takes it further away from the airport facilities, guarantees more mobility as the World Trade Centre business park is better connected by public transport and relatively close to the airport.

Norwegian announced in January of this year that it would have a simplified commercial structure and a network dedicated only to short-haul flights, concentrating on a wide range of domestic routes in Norway, in the Nordic countries, and to key European destinations. In Spain, the low-cost airline offers 40 routes with the Nordic countries from nine airports and has operational bases in Alicante and Malaga.

According to Jesús Hidalgo, Director of Advisory, Transaction Services Occupier at CBRE in Barcelona, many companies "are taking advantage of the current situation to redefine their real estate strategies, with the aim of optimizing costs and corporate spaces, but increasing their quality."