Norse Atlantic launched its first service to southeast Asia on Thursday 2 November, between its Oslo OSL base and Bangkok. The 8,675-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Thursdays and Saturdays departing the Norwegian capital, with its 338-seat 787-9 aircraft. It faces no competition between the two cities. During the peak holiday travel period, Norse Atlantic will increase the […]
November 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Thailand is Europe’s seventh-largest non-stop long-haul country market by seats this winter, behind the US, UAE, China, Canada, India and Brazil. According to Cirium data, there are 1.64 million departing seats, down by a quarter versus W19. Of course, this does not tell the full story or even most of it. A vast number of […]
November 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Norse Atlantic launched its latest transatlantic service on Monday 18 September, between its Oslo OSL base and Miami. The 7,625-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, with its 338-seat 787-9 aircraft. It faces no competition between the two cities. The launch coincides with the carrier’s introduction of 4-weekly flights between London LGW […]
September 21, 2023 | Latest Route News +
SAS introduced a new seasonal service by commencing operations between Oslo OSL and Stuttgart on Thursday 6 July. The 1,290-kilometre route will initially be maintained weekly, increasing to 2-weekly from 14 August with an additional service on Tuesdays. Operations will be maintained with a wet-leased airBaltic A220-300 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the […]
July 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Widerøe (IATA code WF), the Norwegian regional carrier, has introduced another international route. On 25 June it began 3-weekly service between Oslo TRF and Florence. The 1,710-kilometre route will be flown on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays using the airline’s Embraer E195s. No other carrier connects these two airports. However, SAS began service from Oslo OSL […]
July 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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 +
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
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
Norwegian carrier Flyr began commercial operations from Oslo on 30 June 2021, focussing on domestic services. That remained the case during winter 2021/22, although by then the airline was offering several international routes from the Norwegian capital. However, last summer saw Flyr launch almost 30 international routes, not only from Oslo, but also from Bergen […]
January 26, 2023 | Airlines, 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
Flyr has added Kristiansund to its domestic network with the introduction of 4-weekly service from Oslo OSL. The inaugural flight was on Friday 2 September. The other flights on the 370-kilometre route will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays, with a different flight number depending on the day of the week. The inaugural flight, FS676, […]
September 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic Airways launched non-stop service between Oslo and Los Angeles on Tuesday 9 August. The 8,600-kilometre route will be served 3-weekly, departing the Norwegian capital on Tuesdays (at 06:30), Thursdays (at 11:00) and Saturdays (at 15:30). The route was previously served by Norwegian from June 2014 to October 2019. Weekly frequency peaked at 3-weekly […]
August 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +