Norwegian’s first service to Sweden began 20 years ago on 1 September 2003, when it commenced Oslo OSL to Stockholm ARN. Since then, ARN – and Sweden generally – has become an important part of the LCC’s network, with domestic, international – and for a while – long-haul flights. In July-September 2023 (Q3), Norwegian has […]
September 13, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Norwegian entered the North Macedonian market on Friday 23 April by introducing flights between Oslo OSL and Skopje. The 2,155-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly with the carrier’s 186-seat 737-800s on Mondays and Fridays. It faces no direct competition on the route, however, Wizz Air maintains operations between Skopje and Oslo TRF. Norwegian’s new service will run until […]
July 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Norwegian added seasonal flights from Norway’s second largest city of Bergen to Milan BGY on Sunday 30 April. The 1,655-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly with the carrier’s 186-seat 737-800 on Wednesdays and Sundays. It faces no direct competition on the route, with SAS operating seasonal flights between Bergen and Milan MXP. What they said […]
May 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Norwegian on Saturday 1 April began a new, weekly seasonal service between Vaxjo, in South Sweden, and Malaga. The 2,665-kilometre route will be maintained with a mix of 737-800 and 737 MAX aircraft. It becomes the only international service maintained by Norwegian from a regional airport in Sweden. Flight D85057 departs the Swedish city a 10:30 local time, arriving […]
April 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Service One recently estimated that airlines started around 1,850 new routes across Europe (excluding Russia) in 2022. Analysis of Cirium schedules data suggests that airlines have already revealed plans for at least 500 more new routes starting in 2023. However, with airlines announcing additional new routes almost every day at the moment, that number […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, 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
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
Norwegian on Friday 19 August began a new, 2-weekly service between Trondheim and Manchester. The 1,360-kilometre route will operate on Mondays and Fridays, with flight DY1350 scheduled to depart the Norwegian airport at 18:30 on both days. The service will operate until 14 November and then resume on 26 December. This unusual schedule gives a […]
August 24, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Analysis by Air Service One suggests that the 12th week of the summer 2022 (S22) season (covering the period Sunday 12 June to Saturday 18 June) saw airlines launch a total of 78 new routes involving European airports, up from 66 in the previous week. Highlight of the week (on 14 June) was the launch […]
June 20, 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
Norway’s distinctive topography and terrain mean that air travel is far more important in keeping communities connected than in most other countries. Travelling by land between the major towns and communities, scattered mostly up Norway’s west coast, can be a time-consuming business. Sea journeys, although more direct, are also relatively slow. Norway is therefore heavily […]
With the start of the summer 2022 (S22) season on Sunday 27 March, many of Europe’s major airlines have seen a significant improvement in their recovery rate. As a result, the 7-day average recovery rate for European flights (comparing 2022 movements with those during the same period in 2019) as of Saturday 2 April, was […]
April 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story