An airline undergoing much transformation, SAS is Europe’s eighth largest operator by flights in 1H 2023, based on Cirium schedules information. It is the leading airline serving Sweden and Denmark but is inevitably second to mainly domestic operator Widerøe in Norway. This regional carrier is synonymous with Dash 8s and short, multi-stop domestic services in […]
January 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Last week, on 1 September 2022, Norwegian celebrated its 20th anniversary as a scheduled airline. In those 20 years it has carried over 300 million passengers, developed and abandoned a long-haul, low-cost network from various European airports, set up operations in Argentina and come close to collapse as a result of COVID. However, latest traffic […]
September 9, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Nile Air (IATA code NP) began 2-weekly service on Saturday 19 June between Cairo and Stockholm ARN. The 3,430-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s A320s. The second weekly flight is on Wednesdays. No other carrier currently connects these two airports. The last regular, scheduled service between the two airports was with EGYPTAIR. The […]
June 23, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Croatia Airlines, an airline not normally noted for much route development activity, has been growing its scheduled services from Split. During the second week of June it has added services to: Bucharest (10 June, 2-weekly) Stockholm ARN (10 June, 2-weekly) Dublin (12 June, 3-weekly) Milan MXP (12 June, 2-weekly) Amsterdam (14 June, weekly) This brings […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The beginning of June saw SAS introduce new long-haul service to Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, from both Copenhagen (3-weekly from 2 June) and Stockholm ARN (4-weekly from 3 June) using its brand new A321LRs. These will operate in a three-class configuration with 157 seats; 22 seats in SAS Business, 12 seats in SAS Plus (premium […]
June 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Eurowings opened its Stockholm ARN base at the start of the summer season and plans to be serving 16 destinations from the Swedish capital by August. Prior to the base launch, it was only operating flights to Stockholm from its bases at Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The start of the summer season saw the addition of […]
April 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Transavia (IATA code TO) continues to develop its international network from French regional airports with the latest new route being between Lyon and Stockholm ARN. A weekly (Saturday) service began on 29 January and is set to operate until 16 April 2022. The fact that the route is not operating during the summer suggests that […]
February 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair returned to Skelleftea in north-east Sweden on Friday 3 December, when it commenced 2-weekly service from its new base at Stockholm ARN. The 580-kilometre domestic sector will be flown on Mondays and Fridays this winter with an additional service on Wednesdays commencing on 30 March. Competition on this route comes from SAS, who operate […]
December 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Swedish regional carrier Air Leap has begun non-stop service between Stockholm ARN and Halmstad. The 450-kilometre route is currently being flown daily (except Saturdays) using the airline’s Saab 340s and ATR 72s and faces no direct competition. The airline previously served Halmstad from Stockholm BMA in competition with BRA Braathens, who will continue to operate […]
November 30, 2021 | Latest Route News +
SAS added a new international route from Stockholm ARN on Thursday 4 November, when weekly service to Kiev KBP was introduced. The 1,320-kilometre route will be flown using the Star Alliance carrier’s A320-series aircraft and faces no direct competition. The two airports were previously connected, prior to the pandemic, by Ukraine International Airlines with up […]
November 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
In case anyone thought that Wizz Air had become the new champion of new route launches across Europe, Ryanair has apparently made it clear that it is still Europe’s leading airline when it comes to starting new services. Research by The ANKER Report indicates that Europe’s biggest (U)LCC will be launching almost 250, yes 250, […]
November 1, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Finnair has commenced its long-haul operations from Stockholm ARN using A350-900s. The first route to start on 22 October was to Bangkok in Thailand. This was followed on 23 October by Miami with Phuket in Thailand launching on 24 October. Weekly frequencies are quite low to start with but are set to grow during the […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +