SAS inaugurated seasonal winter operations between its Copenhagen hub and Bangkok on Monday 30 October. The 8,645-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays departing Copenhagen with the A350-900 aircraft. The airline competes directly against daily Thai Airways flights. Although both are currently Star Alliance members, SAS will soon be transitioning to […]
November 7, 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
SAS on Friday 1 September introduced a new 2-weekly service between Copenhagen and Porto. The 2,225-kilometre route will be maintained on Mondays and Fridays with the 180-seat A320neo aircraft. The airline will compete directly against 2-weekly Norwegian flights, as well as 2-weekly rotations by Ryanair. Flight SK2773 departs Copenhagen at 06:50 local time, arriving in […]
September 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aarhus is Denmark’s second-largest city, and it has a metro population of about 1.4 million people. In the first seven months of 2023, it welcomed 318,470 passengers, making it the country’s fourth busiest airport. While that was not a record, it was its best result since 2011. In July 2023, it had 61,417 passengers – […]
August 9, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 +
Gothenburg is Sweden’s second most populous city and has about 1.1 million people in its metro area. According to Cirium information, Gothenburg Landvetter has 900,000 one-way seats this July-September (Q3), as shown below. With capacity about a fifth below Q3 2019 and, surprisingly, less than 10% above 2022, Gothenburg is the fifth-largest airport in Sweden, […]
May 11, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SAS introduced a pair of new seasonal long-haul routes on Thursday 27 April from Aalborg in northern Denmark, as well as Gothenburg in Sweden, to New York EWR. Both the 6,000-kilometre service from Aalborg and the 6,115-kilometre route from Gothenburg are being maintained 3-weekly with the A321LR aircraft. The carrier faces no competition on either […]
May 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Service One has identified 15 European flag-carriers that operate a mix of narrow-body (NB) and wide-body (WB) aircraft, and plan to operate at least 1,000 flights with WB aircraft in 2023 Q2. Typically, WB aircraft tend to be used primarily on long-haul, intercontinental services. This analysis, using Cirium schedules data, compares the capacity (seat) […]
April 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
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 +
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
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