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AGENDA MEMORANDUM                        Item No.          8q 
ACTION ITEM                            Date of Meeting     December 14, 2021 
DATE:     November 2, 2021 
TO:        Stephen P. Metruck, Executive Director 
FROM:    Lance Lyttle, Managing Director, Aviation 
Jeff Moken, Interim Director, Aviation Business and Properties 
SUBJECT:  Early Termination of an Agreement between the Port and Norwegian Air 
Amount of this request:                      N/A 
Total estimated project cost:                  N/A 
ACTION REQUESTED 
Request authorization for the Executive Director to execute an Early Termination Agreement
between the Port of Seattle (Port) and Norwegian Air in advance of its scheduled expiration of
December 31, 2022. 
SUMMARY 
Norwegian Air began service between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and London
Gatwick ILGW) on September 17, 2017. From 2018 onwards, it operated as a summer-only
service from March-October. Norwegian Air's last flight from SEA was on October 25, 2019. In
2020, Norwegian Air elected to discontinue all long-haul service due to the financial stress caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore did not resume its Seattle flight. Norwegian Air is still
in operation but operates only intra-European flights and has no widebody aircraft. Under the
terms of the SLOA agreement, Norwegian Air mostly utilized Common Use Premises, the fees for
which are based on activity. Now that Norwegian Air is not flying, they are not incurring any of
these fees. Terminating the Norwegian Air SLOA early will have no financial impact on the Port. 
Keeping SLOA in place requires Norwegian Air to provide the Port evidence of liability insurance
and surety. As Norwegian Air no longer has a physical presence at SEA, and they are not incurring
any charges, neither of these requirements provide a benefit to the Port any longer, and it
provides no harm to the Port to allow early termination of the SLOA between the Port and
Norwegian Air. 
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