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Denmark now has half of Nordics-US capacity; SAS has grown market share as US carriers have just 10%

Some 22 European countries have non-stop flights to the US in Q2 (April-June) of this year, according to Cirium schedules information data. Four of these are Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics. They collectively have 402,000 of the 12.1 million one-way seats – just 3%. Denmark ranks 12th out of the 22, Finland […]

February 14, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story

New Route of the Day (9 February 2023): SAS between Copenhagen and New York JFK

SAS has introduced a new long-haul service between Copenhagen and New York JFK following a 32-year hiatus. The airline inaugurated the 6,200-kilometre route on 9 February with the A321neo aircraft. The 5-weekly flights are being maintained each Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. SK919 departs Copenhagen at 18:25 local time, arriving in New York JFK […]

February 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +

SAS is Europe’s 8th largest airline; Copenhagen has passed Stockholm as top airport; US routes coming

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

New Route of the Day (10 November 2022): easyJet between Bordeaux and Copenhagen

easyJet has added a new route from its base in Bordeaux. On Thursday 10 November the carrier introduced 2-weekly service on the 1,530-kilometre route to Copenhagen in Denmark. Flights operate every Thursday and Sunday and currently face no direct competition. However, Norwegian has announced plans to also start 2-weekly service on the route from 23 […]

November 21, 2022 | Latest Route News +

Air Service One talks with Morten Mortensen, Senior Director Airline Sales & Route Development, Copenhagen International Airport

Air Service One caught up with Morten Mortensen, Senior Director Airline Sales & Route Development, Copenhagen International Airport in the run up to this year’s Routes World. We wanted to get an inside look at how the airport has been rebuilding its network over the last year and where it sees the future, in addition […]

October 12, 2022 | Air Service Event News, Airports, Europe

Norwegian celebrates 20 years of service on 1 September; has carried over 300 million passengers

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

New Routes of the Day (2 June 2022): SAS between Copenhagen/Stockholm and Toronto

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 +

CPH’s recovery continues

“Here at Copenhagen, we saw a strong return of traffic over the summer, and this has continued to develop, suggesting that there’s a whole market rebound going on,” says Simon Nathan, Copenhagen’s Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy and Route Development. “We are now seeing good indications of this trend continuing over Christmas and into the back […]

November 16, 2021 | Airports, Europe

Norway leads among Nordic/Baltic states for traffic recovery in September

Analysis of September passenger data for the major airports across the Baltic and Nordic region of northern Europe reveals that Copenhagen has a narrow lead over Oslo, with these two airports the only ones to welcome over one million travellers last month. Apart from being very close in terms of passenger numbers, they also both […]

October 20, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Copenhagen leads Oslo and Stockholm to be busiest Nordic/Baltic airport in July

July passenger data collected for airports across the Nordic and Baltic nations shows that Copenhagen was the region’s busiest airport with 1.23 million passengers, ahead of Oslo with 1.02 million passengers. Stockholm’s main airport was in third place with 880,000 passengers. Each of these three capital city airports has now recovered between 35% and 40% […]

August 23, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Norwegian 2.0: 45% of flights in July operated on Norwegian domestic routes

In 2018, Norwegian carried 37.3 million passengers (with a load factor of 86%), making it one of Europe’s biggest airlines. However, the airline was struggling financially, having grown rapidly and also taken on the challenge of offering low-cost, long-haul flights, primarily to the US, from various countries in Europe. Even before the pandemic hit, the […]

August 10, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, Top Story