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Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA

Investor Presentation Feb 16, 2023

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Presentation of fourth quarter 2022

16 February 2023

Highlights

Ramping up for busy travel season

  • LOI for six 737 MAX 8 aircraft with ALC
  • strong bookings from New Year's campaign and beyond
  • 81 aircraft fleet for summer operations

2022 operating result (EBIT) NOK 1,502 million – Q4 EBIT negative NOK 39 million in low-season – robust cash position – liquidity NOK 7.8 billion

  • Top-ranking airline in 2022
  • Cirium names Norwegian most punctual Nordic airline
  • Grand Travel Awards (GTA) European airline of the year

Strong ESG commitment

  • Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) awards Norwegian with B- score
  • received top mark for emissions reduction initiatives

Fleet flexibility – reducing winter capacity

Traffic – PAX per month, load factor and yield

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  • Seasonally lower demand – softening demand in quieter winter period
  • Utilising fleet flexibility to minimise cash-burn in winter
    • PBH agreements on 19 aircraft until end of March
    • capacity reduced 20-30%

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Strong booking momentum

Successful New Year's sales campaign

  • Diversified bookings across travels months for domestic, beach and city destinations
  • Over 1 million tickets sold in 14 days
  • Campaign fares significantly above previous years

Booking momentum continuing after sale

  • Strong booking figures recorded after campaign end
  • More than 300 routes on sale across attractive network

Preferred travel partner

  • Brand most loved and trusted airline in Norway*
  • Widerøe co-operation seamless travel across networks
  • Market-leading operations Cirium most punctual airline – 2022 regularity at 99.4%

7-day rolling sales figures (abs) – All markets*

New Year's sales campaign – NOK average fare

*Norwegian Brand Tracker Survey managed by Kantar for Q4 2022

*Travel anytime, company data as of 14 February 2023

Securing modern fleet for 2023 and beyond

Securing fleet for summer ramp-up

  • Signed LOI with ALC for six 737 MAX 8 due before summer 2023
  • Counteracting Boeing delays for aircraft originally due this spring
  • Summer 2023 fleet increasing to 81 aircraft

Replacing older generation aircraft

  • Redelivery of leased 737 NGs
  • Replaced by fuel-efficient aircraft with significant cost savings – above 14% reduced fuel-burn
  • Serving customers latest technology 40% noise reduction

Aircraft order delivery from 2025

  • Order for 50 737 MAX 8 aircraft delivery 2025-2028
  • Option for additional 30 aircraft delivery 2028-2030
  • Attractive pricing and inflation protection
  • NOK 2.9 billion PDP paid-in
  • Significant share to be owned reducing overall financing cost

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Financial results for Q4 2022

Quarterly financial highlights

Profits

  • Earnings EBT negative NOK 80 million
  • Result impacted by expiration of CashPoints
  • CASK ex. fuel NOK 0.47 in quarter

EBITDAR (NOK million)

Balance sheet Cash & equiv. Strong liquidity position in winter season Equity ratio 18.5% NOK 485 million repurchase of bonds in February – optimising capital structure

Q4 earnings – minimising losses in low-season

NOK million Q4 2022 Q3 2022 Chng.
(QoQ)
Full year
2022
Full year
2021
Passenger revenue 3,779 5,936 15,198 3,912
Ancillary passenger revenue 697 1,047 Reduced production in winter 2,870 941
Other revenue 493 133 802 215
Total operating revenue 4,969 7,116 -30% 18,869 5,068
Personnel expenses 782 687 2,885 2,085
Aviation fuel 1,802 2,598 -31% Fuel down from elevated levels 7,371 1,414
Airport and ATC charges 557 682 2,096 820
Handling charges 448 562 1,669 757
Technical maintenance expenses 467 503 Weak NOK impacting cost lines 1,666 855
Other operating expenses 563 515 1,936 1,390
EBITDAR excl other losses/(gains) 349 1,569 1,247 -2,254
Other losses/(gains) -61 43 -7 -737
EBITDAR 410 1,526 -73% 1,254 -1,516
Aircraft lease, depreciation and amortization 449 494 1,851 1,270
Reversal of impairment loss re. prepayment on aircraft 0 0 -2,099 0
Operating profit (EBIT) -39 1,032 1,502 -2,786
Net financial items -41 -122 -456 4,662
Profit before tax (EBT) -80 910 1,046 1,876

Scale and cost initiatives – macro headwinds

  • Fuel cost remain elevated due to high fuel price and strong USD
    • hedged 25% of 2023 consumption at \$880/mt
    • hedge accounting for fuel hedges
  • Personnel higher due to reduced scale – sound collaboration with unions
  • Airport & ATC and handling charges elevated with currency headwind
  • Technical headwind from currency and inflation
  • Other OPEX partly higher due to de-icing
  • Lease expenses benefiting from increasing scale – headwind from strong USD

Robust balance sheet through winter season

NOK million 31 Dec. 30 Sep. Chng.
Intangible assets 2022
2,090
2022
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(QoQ) Net interest bearing debt
Tangible assets 10,078 11,258 Ccy revaluation of leases
Total non-current assets 12,625 13,735 -8% NOK million 31 Dec. 30 Sep. Chng.
Receivables 2,185 2,725 Holdback (%) reduced to 39% 2022 2022 (QoQ)
Cash and cash equivalents 7,759 8,190 Cash & equiv. 7,759 8,190 -431
Total current assets 10,045 11,106 Aircraft financing 6,640 7,480 -840
Assets 22,670 24,841 -9% NAS 13 569 572
Other IB debt 137 135
Equity 4,203 4,859 Retained Claims Bonds 2,739 2,676
Non-current debt 8,696 9,409 NIBD 2,326 2,673 -346
Other non-current liabilities 2,160 2,127
Total non-current liabilities 10,857 11,536 NIBD decrease in quarter with lease revaluations
Air traffic settlement liabilities 2,549 3,102 70 aircraft per year-end, up one from previous quarter
Current debt 1,389 1,454
Other current liabilities 3,672 3,890 NOK 485m bond repurchase in Feb. @ 72.50
optimising capital structure at attractive price
Total current liabilities 7,610 8,446 -10%
Liabilities 18,466 19,982
Equity and liabilities 22,670 24,841
Equity ratio (%) 18.5 19.6
Net interest bearing debt
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2022
30 Sep.
2022
Chng.
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Cash & equiv. 7,759 8,190 -431
Aircraft financing
NAS 13
Other IB debt
Retained Claims Bonds
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NIBD 2,326 2,673 -346

NIBD decrease in quarter with lease revaluations

Cash flow – strong cash position

  • Strong liquidity position going through winter season
  • Holdback down to 39% – above 100% at year-end 2021
  • Limited aircraft prepayments to Boeing in 2023 and 2024 – NOK 825 million cash paid in 2022
  • 2022 full-year CF NOK 64 million

The way forward

Committed to sustainable aviation future

Reducing in-flight waste

  • Appetizing pre-order meals with zero food waste
  • Recycling of bottles and cans
  • Environmentally friendly packaging and utensils
  • Project to reduce food waste across network

Sustainable operations

  • Pilots utilising latest mobile technology to reduce fuel burn
  • Promoting Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) – collaborating with producers and policy makers
  • Fleet renewal modern fuel-efficient aircraft entering fleet

Transparent ESG commitment

  • Committed to reducing carbon efficiency by 45% by 2030
  • Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) B– score – top mark for emissions reduction initiatives
  • Transparent reporting on ESG initiatives

Attracting new business travellers

Strong performance on corporate travel

  • 2022 corporate revenue 90% of 2019
  • Onboarding more corporates through attractive product offering and campaigns
  • Few cancellations with regularity at 99.4%
  • Strong on-time record

Preferred travel partner

  • Significant shift in corporate share of wallet
  • Large corporates state "over 50% of travel with Norwegian"
  • Brand most loved and trusted airline across Norway
  • Widerøe co-operation with seamless travel across networks – business travellers significant share
  • Next level 'Frequent Flyer' offering…

Corporate share of ticket revenue

Improvements to Norwegian Reward

Adding new member benefits to the program…

We have listened to our members:

+ The more you fly, the more benefits you can select New top level for our most frequent travelers Unlocking all Benefits New Priority Benefits

  • NEW benefit for all to select overhead cabin bag
  • Unlock all benefits and new priority benefits at 32 flights – increasing value to our most frequent flyers
  • Improving awareness for members by simplifying benefits

… and expanding the program beyond airline

Ambition to build the best loyalty program in the Nordics, together with partners

  • Norwegian Reward to expand and grow beyond airline – becoming part of everyday life and holidays for people
  • Opportunity to earn and use our digital CashPoint currency – more often for more
  • New digital products and services – increased value for members, partners and suppliers
  • Utilising data, analytics and technology to make the ecosystem relevant, accessible and engaging for everyone

Summary

Navigating through the winter

  • Utilising fleet flexibility up to 30% capacity reduction
  • Strong liquidity position NOK 7.8bn in cash
  • Minimising Q1 cash-burn through cost and efficiency focus

Well positioned for busy 2023

  • Encouraging bookings at improved fare level
  • Six additional 737 MAX 8 aircraft from ALC – 81 aircraft through peak summer
  • Targeting for 2023 (vs. last year): – capacity (ASK) 34,000 million kilometres – up 24%
    • improved unit revenue
    • 5-10% reduction in CASK ex. fuel

Strong brand loyalty and robust operations

  • Leading operations vs. peers most punctual Nordic airline
  • Launching new benefits with 'Norwegian Reward'
  • Widerøe co-operation with seamless travel across networks

Book tickets at Norwegian.com

Appendix

20 largest shareholders as of 31 December 2022*

Name Country Number of shares Per cent
1 Geveran Trading Company, Ltd. Cyprus 133,430,512 14.3 %
2 Sundt AS Norway 106,103,198 11.4 %
3 Folketrygdfondet Norway 46,651,798 5.0 %
4 Ballyfin Aviation Limited Ireland 31,472,703 3.4 %
5 Silver Point Capital, L.P. United States 30,478,125 3.3 %
6 Nordnet Bank AB. Norway 30,070,165 3.2 %
7 Keskinäinen eläkevakuutusyhtiö Varma Finland 27,500,000 3.0 %
8 Handelsbanken Kapitalförvaltning AB Sweden 27,313,039 2.9 %
9 Avanza Bank AB Sweden 24,680,156 2.7 %
10 Contrarian Capital Management, LLC United States 17,708,189 1.9 %
11 DNB Asset Management AS Norway 16,151,037 1.7 %
12 Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc United Kingdom 12,663,237 1.4 %
13 KLP Fondsforvaltning AS Norway 12,493,863 1.3 %
14 BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. United States 10,635,493 1.1 %
15 Svelland Capital (UK) Ltd United Kingdom 9,427,617 1.0 %
16 Swedbank AB Sweden 9,390,819 1.0 %
17 Nordea Funds Oy Finland 9,339,301 1.0 %
18 BofA Global Research (UK) United Kingdom 8,748,839 0.9 %
19 Brumm AS Norway 8,285,480 0.9 %
20 HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG Germany 7,107,742 0.8 %
Top 20 shareholders 579,651,313 62.3 %
Other shareholders 350,338,426 37.7 %
Total number of shares 929,989,739 100.0 %

*) The data is obtained through third-party analysis of beneficial ownership and fund manager information provided in replies to ownership notices issued to custodians. Reasonable efforts have been made to verify the data, however Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA cannot guarantee the accuracy of the analysis.

Disclaimer

Certain statements included in this presentation contain forward-looking statements, such as statements of future expectations. Although the statements provided are based on the best reasonable assumptions of management of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA ("Norwegian"), the statements are based on a number of assumptions and forecasts that, by their nature, involve risks and uncertainties. No assurances can be given that the expectations provided in the forwardlooking statements will prove to be correct.

Various factors may cause the actual results of Norwegian to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, (a) general economic conditions, (b) changes in the competitive climate, (c) fluctuations in the price of jet fuel, (d) fluctuations in currency exchange rates, (e) industrial actions, (f) contingencies and legal claims, and (g) legislative, regulatory and political factors.

Norwegian cautions readers of this presentation not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements in making an investment decision. Norwegian assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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