Rovaniemi is in northern Finland on the Arctic Circle. As it is best known for being the official home of Santa Claus, it is very much a winter place. It is also famed for many other winter activities, including husky and reindeer sledding, snowboarding and seeing the Northern Lights. With 948,000 passengers in 2024, Rovaniemi […]
December 16, 2025 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Helsinki is the capital of Finland. Finavia statistics show the airport welcomed 8.13 million passengers between January and June 2025, with the international market accounting for 88% of the total. While traffic is still recovering compared to 2019, it was 5% above the same six months in 2024. This was aided by international expansion (+6%), […]
Nordic countries include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. All except Iceland are served by Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline. The ULCC has served the region since June 1997 when its first flight to Stockholm NYO – an airport that was once a base but which it no longer serves – took off. The first Norway […]
October 2, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The first revenue-generating service for Finnair, originally called Aero, was on 20 March 1924. More than 100 years later, Planespotters.net shows that Finland’s flag carrier has 79 aircraft. There are 17 A350-900s, 15 A321ceos, 12 ATR 72s (operated by Nordic Regional), 12 E190s (operated by Nordic Regional), 10 A320ceos, eight A330-300s and five A319ceos. All […]
September 15, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Rovaniemi is the capital of Finnish Lapland in Northern Finland more than 800 kilometres by road from Helsinki. Famous for being the hometown of Santa Claus and for all things winter, Rovaniemi capacity has grown significantly recently – and it continues. Growth is all about the international market According to Cirium schedules information, Rovaniemi has […]
December 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Busy terminals, new airline partners and dozens more destinations to choose from – Billund Airport is flying high as it enters 2023. Last year marked a welcome return to form for the Danish airport following the Covid slump, with passenger numbers bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. Returning passengers have even more destinations to choose from […]
February 20, 2023 | Air Service Event News
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
The last week has sadly seen the collapse of two European airlines, Flybe version 2 and Flyr. Both carriers were launched since the start of the pandemic and focussed, at least initially, on their respective domestic markets of the UK and Norway. While the revived Flybe remained focussed on the domestic market for all of […]
February 3, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of airport passenger data across all the Baltic and Nordic nations (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) reveals which have been the most (and least) successful at getting air traffic back to pre-pandemic levels. For much of the pandemic Norway was leading the way with its extensive domestic network and where […]
September 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The second half of 2021 saw the countries comprising the Baltic and Nordic region of Europe all show a significant recovery in passenger demand. By December the airports in the eight countries included in our analysis (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) were all reporting passenger numbers between 50% and 70% of […]
May 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
airBaltic has opened its first base outside of the Baltic nations with the introduction of additional services from Tampere in Finland. The airline first started serving the Finnish airport from Riga in October 2008, operating 2-daily flights using Fokker 50s. Service continued until October 2013 before being suspended. Flights resumed in April 2017 with Q400s […]
May 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The countries comprising the Nordic and Baltic region of Europe have seen significant variations in their rate of traffic recovery since the start of the pandemic. Norway, with its geography making domestic air travel the only viable means of connecting some regions, saw significant travel demand during the first year of the pandemic, at least […]
January 27, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story