Re: Nordic Aviation Thread - 2022

DL announced GOT-JFK in 2009, but the Financial crisis put a stop to that. That crisis ended in 2011. Why didn't they try it during the ten years after that? Surely the economy wasn't that bad? Well obviously they had other plans for their 757s when the economy rebounded 1-2 years later. What I was...

Re: Nordic Aviation Thread - 2022

Finally Gothenburg-New York!!! This is huge and amazing! DL announced GOT-JFK in 2009, but the Financial crisis put a stop to that.

The GOT-US market is 200,000 passengers per year, so let’s hope this works out well!

Re: Nordic Aviation Thread - 2022

Air Serbia will launch Gothenburg on May 18 2023! The flight will be operated by the A319 three times a week.

BEG-GOT is already served by Wizz Air three times per week, but I think JU has a shot at this as they also offer connections through their hub…

Re: Nordic Aviation Thread - 2022

Now when SK is launching CPH-JFK, rumours has it that they will cancel the second CPH-EWR flight operated by the A321LR, and finally launch EWR from a regional Scandinavian airport. Any one have more information regarding this? Ofcourse my hopes are that GOT will finally get a New York service, but ...

Re: CAN surpasses ATL as world's busiest Airport in 2020

Especially as some Western countries increasingly view commercial aviation as an environmental+residential adversary, as opposed to a tool for economic prosperity; with a few (e.g. Norwegian political parties) demonstrating absurd levels of hostility. The irony of the source of Norway's sovereign w...

Re: Nordic Aviation 2021

Vueling to launch several routes summer-only from Spain to Scandinavia: BCN-BGO (was served in the past) BCN-SVG (was served in the past) BCN-BLL new AGP-CPH (was served in the past) AGP-BLL new PMI-CPH new PMI-BLL new ALC-CPH new This is in addition to “regular” BCN- Copenhague, Arlanda, Oslo, Kef...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2020

Starting today KLM steps up their operations here at GOT, going straight from 1 to 3 daily flights, including night stop.
From September it will become 4 daily.

(Original operation pre-covid was 6 Daily)

Re: Qatar Airways News and Discussion Thread

Does anyone know what config the A321neo will have?
I read somewhere C16/Y150, but is this correct?
And also what config will the 787-9 have, and why are seven of them ready for delivery but stored?

Re: OAG Changes 1/5/2020:PR Adds MNL-SEA,CEB-LAX;HU Drops LAS-PEK

Philippine Airlines is getting really big in North America!

MNL-YYZ: Daily 359
MNL-YVR: Daily 77W
MNL-JFK: Daily 359
MNL-HNL: 5 weekly 333
MNL-SEA: 3 weekly 359
MNL-SFO: 14 weekly 77W
MNL-LAX: 14-17 weekly
CEB-LAX: 3 weekly 77W

An average of nine daily flights!

Re: Singapore Airlines re-launches Brussels in October 2020

MAD is premium for South America - not necessarily true for Asia though - and even more in South East Asia where there's no non-stop flight to MAD . IB is struggling with PVG and NRT. Air Europa doesn't fly to any destination in Asia. That suggest that the market MAD-Asia is not that premium (not s...

Re: Rumor: United seeking SFO-MNL route

LAX/SFO-SGN are more likely UA adds in the region than low-yield MNL, which already has nonstop service to both US coasts. And please feel free to explain why on earth you think that SGN (also very low yield!) would be more viable than MNL from LAX/SFO? 1: The total Philippine economy is alot bigge...

Re: Rumor: United seeking SFO-MNL route

LAX/SFO-SGN are more likely UA adds in the region than low-yield MNL, which already has nonstop service to both US coasts. And please feel free to explain why on earth you think that SGN (also very low yield!) would be more viable than MNL from LAX/SFO? 1: The total Philippine economy is alot bigge...

Re: Rumor: United seeking SFO-MNL route

x1234 wrote:

If their going to launch MNL they better launch BKK as well.

Re: Rumor: United seeking SFO-MNL route

This has been talked about for so long now, so it would be great if UA finally launched SFO-MNL. It’s a huge market and it could really use a competitor to PR. The Philippine economy has grown by almost 40% in the last five years, and the future looks bright, so it would be a good investment for UA ...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

More bad news for ARN on the long haul front! The last two years Emirates has been operating double daily during high season (Dec-Mar and Jun-Aug), and lately it has been scheduled at 11 weekly as a year-around service! Now, the second flight has been removed completely and left ARN at not only dail...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Last week four new routes were launched from GOT by Ryanair/Lauda! Gdansk: 3 weekly Budapest: 2 weekly Katowice: 2 weekly Vienna: 2 weekly (OE) At the same time four routes that were launched in March becomes year-around services, namely: Manchester: 2 weekly Dublin: 2 weekly Prague: 2 weekly Barcel...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Starting March 29, Eurowings will launch a daily (except Saturdays) service between GOT-HAM, operated by A319/A320.
This route is already flown by OK, as part of their daily GOT-HAM-PRG service...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

So what's the reason for this drop? Why are there so many fewer passengers? Are people switching to trains or was market artificially stimulated through too much competition? Sweden has made huge investments in their railway network. I cannot say if the current trains can be described as luxury, bu...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

15% for Gothenburg, that is very much. Yes it is, indeed. And the reason to this is that Gothenburg is the only major city where high speed rail can really compete from Stockholm, with many rides at only 3 hours! Malmö still takes 4,5 hours by train, thus less people who are willing to give up flyi...

Re: SAS moving LAX route from ARN to CPH

MillwallSean wrote:

I only visit Gothenburg and I have yet to see this demonstrated there but Gothenburg and Gothenburgians aren't atypical of Sweden or swedes so...

Re: SAS and Boston.

I know that SAS uses a too-big A330 on the Boston route and was wondering whether they have a new aircraft coming along that would make it more viable and sustainable than it is now. SAS has a few A321Neos coming along next year. CPH-BOS has been mentioned several times as a good candidate for the ...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Strange the QR GOT flight have such a Mia-match schedule.... Not strange at all. Almost every new QR destination in Europe is launched with this schedule. Even ARN and OSL had the same schedule, then they increased flights to more than daily. I believe this is to enable a big variety of connections...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

And it’s finally official: On December 1st Qatar Airways will increase Gothenburg from five weekly to a daily service, using the 787 Dreamliner! GOT-DOH QR174 08:05-16:10 12x4xx7 GOT-DOH QR178 15:10-23:15 xx3x56x DOH-GOT QR173 01:55-06:35 12x4xx7 DOH-GOT QR177 08:20-13:00 xx3x56x QR is highly popula...

Re: MOL warns of UK base closures and cuts in the coming week's

In any case, the Brexit thing seems like a typical Ryanair excuse. In general Europe is over served so that means that some of the newest low-cost routes make you wonder whom they are targeting. For instance with Ryanair things like Edinburg-Luxembourg or Manchester-Gothenburg. May I ask why MAN-GO...

Re: TK A350 future routes

Personally i think gru/exe route is a candidate for switch to 789/359 As per TK monthly traffic report, load factor of latak routed isnaround 80% so if they switch toone of 359/789 lf will be +90%, seems that after 340s departure 77w was too big Same might apply to manila, taipe, houston, miami, sf...

Re: Southeast Asia Aviation Thread - 2019

Why should we exclude the Philippines just because they have their own thread? It’s still a major part of Southeast Asia... Lets say that a new route is being launched between the Philippines and a Southeast Asian neighbour, shouldn’t that be posted here? Because the author excluded the Philippines...

Re: Southeast Asia Aviation Thread - 2019

Why should we exclude the Philippines just because they have their own thread? It’s still a major part of Southeast Asia... Lets say that a new route is being launched between the Philippines and a Southeast Asian neighbour, shouldn’t that be posted here? Because the author excluded the Philippines...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

While talking about the Swedish Flygskam and decrease in air travel, I would actually appreciate if you separate or specify ARN and GOT from each other. Yes, domestic travel is decreasing like crazy at both airports, but when talking about international air travel (which is the most important in Swe...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

I agree SAS long haul product is really nice in all three classes. From Norway it was okay to fly through ARN, even though it feels like it’s going in the opposite direction. But so is CPH, even though it feels as a more spacious airport than ARN. As for flying from ARN it adds some 400 kroners for...

Re: Southeast Asia Aviation Thread - 2019

Why should we exclude the Philippines just because they have their own thread? It’s still a major part of Southeast Asia...
Lets say that a new route is being launched between the Philippines and a Southeast Asian neighbour, shouldn’t that be posted here?

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Very strong rumours that QR are happy with their new Gothenburg service and will increase the 787 route to a daily flight in November, less than a year after it was launched as 5 weekly! During winter season the most popular connections are to Southeast Asia, while during summer season that shifts t...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

The annual report of Airports of Thailand has been released, including route statistics. Statistics for BKK/HKT to Nordics are below: Phuket: ARN: 70,293 (-2.2%) HEL: 66,373 (-1.4%) CPH: 45,010 (+10.0%) OSL: 9,216 (+1.7%) And thanks for including GOT (25,481), that had three times the OSL figure. A...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Umeå is after all a slightly larger town than Skellefteå. But it's hard to come up with potential routes, maybe KLM could try it? Actually I’ve been wondering for quite some time why KL hasn’t tried UME yet. A daily E175 would be a good start. They made LPI and VXO work and seem to perform very wel...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

SAS were suppose to announce the new routes for the A321Neos during this spring, weren’t they? Does anyone know how that’s going...?

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Starting from July 17, Air Serbia will operate two weekly flights from Nis to Goteborg onboard its A319. This route will be subsidized for a five year period by the Serbian government. https://www.exyuaviation.com/p/air-serbia-nis-gothenburg.html Please see my previous post. Air Serbia will launch ...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

KEF numbers for April:

April: 474.519 (-27%)
YTD: 2.104.785 (-13.6%)

As we know, mainly because of WOW’s bankruptcy.
This makes KEF drop from Nordic 5th to 7th, with GOT now being 5th and BGO at 6th spot.

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Air Serbia will launch Gothenburg-Nis (GOT-INI) in July. The flight will operate twice weekly year-around using an A319.

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Ryanair launches two new routes from Gothenburg this autumn!

Katowice: 2 weekly
Gdansk: 3 weekly (already served by Wizz)

With these, Ryanair have launched six new routes from GOT in 2019 for a total of 19!

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

So SVG went from both SK and BA serving LHR to none? Yikes! Atleast when SK left GOT-LHR, BA saw their opportunity and added a third daily rotation... What is happpening at SAS? STN will be a failure and both CPH and SVG will perform badly there, it needs to be LHR for SK! Didn’t they learn anything...

Re: SAS to get A321LR

Unbelievable is has not been mentioned. I saw some statistics recently and GOT-EWR is by far the largets unserved route between Scandinavia and the US. GOT has a 2 million catchment area and is served by almost every major European carrier and also QR widebody. AAR/BLL/BGO/SVG are alot smaller marke...

Re: Nordic Aviation - 2019

Today Mr. Al Baker of Qatar Airways visited Gothenburg to hold a press conference about the new five weekly 787 service launched last month. http://news.cision.com/no/qatar-airways/r/qatar-airways-hosts-press-conference-in-gothenburg-to-celebrate-the-launch-of-its-second-swedish-gat,c2723175 A few p...

Re: Philippine Aviation Thread - 2019

MNL increased the number of passengers during 2018 by 7% to pass 45 million! I find this impressive as it has been done mostly without adding flights. Bigger aircraft (A321s replacing A320s) at both PR and 5J, together with higher load factors has enabled this growth of 3 million passengers! Domesti...

Re: How to make Boeing pay attention to the Philippine market?

There’s only one reason the Philippine domestic market isn’t bigger than it is, and one reason only. It’s because of the fact that MNL is completly full and overcrowded, there have not been any slots available for years now! Once the new airport opens (in X years?), believe me when I say that the ai...

Re: PR seeks overflight rights from Saudi Arabia for MNL-TLV flights

I would say a big target here is Israeli tourists (like Lurvebus mentioned)! Although still not a huge number, the group has grown like crazy in the Philippines during the last few years. Going from 5,000 visitors in 2012, to 20,000 last year, the number has quadrupled in six years! This group toget...

Re: Nordic aviation - 2018

Today (Wednesday) we at GOT welcomed the very first flight with Qatar Airways and its 787-8 Dreamliner! This was a huge deal for the airport and the Gothenburg region so there was a great event at the airport during the afternoon. Media was invited among others. I myself, was very happy to be presen...

Re: Philippine Aviation Thread 2018

I wonder if PAL will reduced frequency between MNL and YVR considering it is the only other route being operated by the B77W and moved one of the additional frequency to LAX? I don’t think they will. YVR just recently got decreased to daily when they made JFK nonstop, as it used to go via YVR. So I...

Re: Philippine Aviation Thread 2018

This shows clearly that N. America really is PAL’s bread and butter, which some A.netters seem to have a hard time understanding. And 17w to LAX, wow! Even though I didn’t see this one coming, I’m not surprised! Sleepless, you think this is too much based on what? Between January-August, the airline...

Re: Wizz Air discount tickets.

I bought five return tickets for Gothenburg-London/STN with Ryanair a few years ago and paid 300sek (33US$) for all. So the price per person one way was about 3US$... Wow, this was a good deal, but $120 for Boston to Sydney round trip in lie-flat business class is unbelievable. Yes, but obviously f...

Re: Wizz Air discount tickets.

I bought five return tickets for Gothenburg-London/STN with Ryanair a few years ago and paid 300sek (33US$) for all. So the price per person one way was about 3US$...

Re: Viet Nam to U.S.A.

These questions get asked a lot. As with Philippines, they can certainly launch it for the prestige factor but it won’t make any money. the Chinese carriers are too inexpensive on these one stop itineraries. Eh, please explain this one! Philippine Airlines is not owned by the government, unlike man...