This coming Sunday (29 October) sees the start of the Northern Hemisphere Winter Season (W23) which runs for five months until Saturday 30 March 2024. This is the off-peak season for air travel demand across Europe as a whole, though there are a few niche airports where Christmas and the New Year period see a […]
October 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
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
Analysis of air passenger traffic data across Europe this winter suggests that recovery rates have pretty much flattened out in many countries and at many airports. With the start of the Northern Hemisphere Summer 2023 season (S23) just a week away, Air Service One has decided to take a look at which of Europe’s airports […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, 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
Lübeck Air on Saturday 28 January began a weekly, seasonal service between Lübeck in Germany and Sälen in west central Sweden, close to the border with Norway. The 830-kilometre route will be flown until 9 April by an ATR 72-500 (registration D-ALBC) operated by Air Alsie on behalf of Lübeck Air. According to the airline’s […]
February 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
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
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
In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, passenger numbers using Sweden’s airports fell by almost 5%. Near neighbours Denmark and Norway saw zero growth, while Finnish airports registered growth of 4%. Across all of Europe traffic grew by around 3%. In Sweden, one of the reasons cited for the traffic decline was the growing social movement […]
October 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis