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Someone83 wrote:Not only -600s leaving the SAS fleet, LN-TUD, one of their oldest -700s is scheduled to leave for part-out todayBoeing 737-705 28217 142 LN-TUD SAS to be ferried 15nov17 OSL-DGX for part-out & scrap ex N1786B
Nami wrote:AY has taken delivery of another new A321.Airbus A321 -231 7981 OH-LZR Finnair delivery 17nov17 XFW-HEL ex D-AVYK
QuawerAir wrote:Nami wrote:CAAC on 16NOV17 posted Air China's application for Beijing - Copenhagen route 5 times a week from March 2018, with A330-200.
Airlineroute
Not really surprised by this, CPH is very popular for AY's Chinese passengers.
Good for CPH. If Beijing Capital Airlines starts the 3x weekly PEK-CPH service, there will be up to 15 weekly flights between CPH and PEK, operated by Air China, Beijing Capital Airlines, and SAS.
Is Air China also interested in launching flights to HEL? Air China, as well as Beijing Capital Airlines, participated in the negotiations on air transport agreement between Finland and China that were held on 20-21 April in Helsinki. Limitations regarding the number of the operating airlines were removed as well.
Boeing 737 -683 28301 227 LN-RRD SAS ferried 20nov17 OSL-DGX for part-out & scrap ex OY-KKH
Ferryflight wrote:QuawerAir wrote:Nami wrote:
Not really surprised by this, CPH is very popular for AY's Chinese passengers.
Good for CPH. If Beijing Capital Airlines starts the 3x weekly PEK-CPH service, there will be up to 15 weekly flights between CPH and PEK, operated by Air China, Beijing Capital Airlines, and SAS.
Is Air China also interested in launching flights to HEL? Air China, as well as Beijing Capital Airlines, participated in the negotiations on air transport agreement between Finland and China that were held on 20-21 April in Helsinki. Limitations regarding the number of the operating airlines were removed as well.
That's never going to happen. CAAC do only with few exceptions, allows one chineese carrier pr. route.
The application is for designation. Let's se who get it.
QuawerAir wrote:Statistics for scheduled passenger air traffic between India and the Nordics (Q3/Jul-Sep 17)
City-pair and PAX
Delhi - Copenhagen 1,858
Delhi - Stockholm 6,448
Delhi - Helsinki 18,556
Note: all cities served 3x weekly, DEL-ARN was launched on 15 Aug 2017 and DEL-CPH on 16 Sep 2017.
Link to the statistics
sailas wrote:QuawerAir wrote:Statistics for scheduled passenger air traffic between India and the Nordics (Q3/Jul-Sep 17)
City-pair and PAX
Delhi - Copenhagen 1,858
Delhi - Stockholm 6,448
Delhi - Helsinki 18,556
Note: all cities served 3x weekly, DEL-ARN was launched on 15 Aug 2017 and DEL-CPH on 16 Sep 2017.
Link to the statistics
Wouldnt those planes be nearly empty on CPH and ARL?
davidjohnson6 wrote:Budapest Aircraft Service via Airlink are currently operating a PSO service between Helsinki and Savonlinna in Finland - this PSO ends on 22-Dec-2017
I understand that the Finnish Transport Agency issued a PSO notice in the summer requesting bids for the route to begin 08-Jan-2018 and last about 2 years but nothing much seems to have happened apart from issuing a few documents asking for bids. I did however notice that the Savonlinna local Government agreed about a week ago to come up with some of the cash that would be needed for a PSO
Does anyone know what's happening with this route after 22-Dec-2017, when (or if) an announcement will be made as to who has won the new PSO, and also when the new operator will start flying ?
Someone83 wrote:sailas wrote:QuawerAir wrote:Statistics for scheduled passenger air traffic between India and the Nordics (Q3/Jul-Sep 17)
City-pair and PAX
Delhi - Copenhagen 1,858
Delhi - Stockholm 6,448
Delhi - Helsinki 18,556
Note: all cities served 3x weekly, DEL-ARN was launched on 15 Aug 2017 and DEL-CPH on 16 Sep 2017.
Link to the statistics
Wouldnt those planes be nearly empty on CPH and ARL?
The CPH numbers are only for about 2 weeks of operation, and ARN about 6 week. While the HEL is for 3 months.
Or is the number of passengers much worse than expected?QuawerAir wrote:I wonder, when will Finavia replace the old jet bridges at HEL by newer ones. They might be more than 20 years old. How old were the blue jet bridges at CPH when they were replaced? How long are jet bridges usually in use?
Ideekay wrote:QuawerAir wrote:I wonder, when will Finavia replace the old jet bridges at HEL by newer ones. They might be more than 20 years old. How old were the blue jet bridges at CPH when they were replaced? How long are jet bridges usually in use?
Probably never. Its the reason why they have so few delays in snowy conditions. As those jetways dont have any wheels they are able to move in any condition. But now with the newer ones its going to be interesting how their experience with the new jetways will be
Thai Airways on Monday said it planned to add frequencies on flights from its Bangkok hub to Brussels, Oslo and Auckland and to expand Southeast Asian routes flown by budget arm Thai Smile.
Reuters 13.11.2017
Eurowings scales back Berlin expansion in 1Q18
Eurowings recently adjusted its planned expansion at Berlin, including the closure of several new routes it previously planned to offer. Revised Berlin network expansion as follows.
Following routes will be operated as planned:
Berlin Tegel – Helsinki eff 15JAN18 6 weekly A319/320/Dash8-Q400 (Including Germanwings and LGW aircraft; previously scheduled A320 only)
...
Previously planned new routes will not be offered:
Berlin Tegel – Copenhagen eff 15JAN18 6 weekly 737-800
Berlin Tegel – Gothenburg eff 15JAN18 6 weekly A320
Berlin Tegel – Stockholm Arlanda eff 15JAN18 6 weekly A320
Nami wrote:Ryanair will add 1x weekly LPP-BGY from 28MAR18 onwards. Not a new route.
Discussions for other possible routes may start after the countries that play their 2018 FIFA World Cup matches in St Petersburg are revealed in December. St Petersburg hotels will be full and some tourists will be accommodated in Lappeenranta and bussed to St Petersburg. LPP is the closest EU airport to St Petersburg with a distance of about 200 km.
Most likely many airlines will not get the permission to fly to LED next summer and will use LPP instead.
Kikko19 wrote:Yes, loads of Italians will go to Russia for the world cup, oh wait! they didn't qualify!! but I know lots of russians would just travel to LPP and fly from there to sunny destinations.
: First, Lappeenranta is Europe. This circumstance for some European fans can be a weighty argument. According to the director of the Union of National and International Travel Agencies Alexander Gorokhov, many of the potential football tourists, especially Finns and Scandinavians, are easier and more convenient to come to St. Petersburg from Lappeenranta. As the expert notes, it can be "in general new categories of tourists and fans who, perhaps, in other conditions will not come to us." Probably, someone will not want to spend the night in the territory of the Russian Federation - for reasons of security or for "political reasons".
Secondly, the city has its own airport, which is expected to receive regular flights by the summer of 2018, and on the border between the Russian Federation and Suomi even think about opening special lanes for rapid passage of border controls.
Tour-planet.com 5.11.2017
Thunderboltdrgn wrote:The construction of the new Scandinavia mountains airport started about a month and a half ago.
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/scandinavi ... 19-2203357
Mortyman wrote:Thunderboltdrgn wrote:The construction of the new Scandinavia mountains airport started about a month and a half ago.
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/scandinavi ... 19-2203357
Interesting. What Airlines will fly to this airport and what kind of Equipment. I assume it won't be anyhting bigger than a turboprop ?
Thunderboltdrgn wrote:Mortyman wrote:Thunderboltdrgn wrote:The construction of the new Scandinavia mountains airport started about a month and a half ago.
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/scandinavi ... 19-2203357
Interesting. What Airlines will fly to this airport and what kind of Equipment. I assume it won't be anyhting bigger than a turboprop ?
Runway will be 2500m and the airport is designed to have a capacity of 4 A320/B738 at the time.
JetBuddy wrote:Thunderboltdrgn wrote:Mortyman wrote:
Interesting. What Airlines will fly to this airport and what kind of Equipment. I assume it won't be anyhting bigger than a turboprop ?
Runway will be 2500m and the airport is designed to have a capacity of 4 A320/B738 at the time.
That's really great. Maybe some direct ski holiday flights from the continent will happen. If I understand it correctly, it's an expansion of Sälen Trysil Airport?
JetBuddy wrote:That's really great. Maybe some direct ski holiday flights from the continent will happen. If I understand it correctly, it's an expansion of Sälen Trysil Airport?
Nami wrote:I bet the startup scene in Helsinki would be very glad if AY decided to make SFO a year-round service.
Nami wrote:Last year Finnair flew an A350 with almost 300 business executives, investors, entrepreneurs and journalists from SFO to HEL for Slush, one of the biggest startup events in the world.
“These slots will be used by the Group’s airlines, primarily British Airways, enabling them to grow their presence at the airport and launch new destinations and add extra frequencies.”
Some of the new services are likely to be direct replacements for Monarch links, but others will be used to expand its worldwide routes — a move that will provide more competition for Norwegian, which has Gatwick as its main UK base.
independent.co.uk
QuawerAir wrote:British Airways to grow by 28% at Gatwick after buying Monarch slots“These slots will be used by the Group’s airlines, primarily British Airways, enabling them to grow their presence at the airport and launch new destinations and add extra frequencies.”
Some of the new services are likely to be direct replacements for Monarch links, but others will be used to expand its worldwide routes — a move that will provide more competition for Norwegian, which has Gatwick as its main UK base.
independent.co.uk
Hopefully, the Nordic airports will now get more connections to London with BA. I could see BA adding flights to HEL from LGW or Finnair expanding in Gatwick with a direct link to HEL as AY soon serves Gatwick with flights from Ivalo and Kittilä. Gatwick is BA's second hub so AY and BA could offer their customers lots of Oneworld connections. Finnair can surely compete with Norwegian.
HELyes wrote:This week Finnair starts seasonal scheduled A350 services from HEL to the Caribbean, 2x weekly to Havanna HAV (30 Nov) and once weekly to Puerto Plata POP (01 Dec). Both are their former charter destinations.
Nami wrote:HELyes wrote:This week Finnair starts seasonal scheduled A350 services from HEL to the Caribbean, 2x weekly to Havanna HAV (30 Nov) and once weekly to Puerto Plata POP (01 Dec). Both are their former charter destinations.
HAV starts today, POP started yesterday.
Finavia refreshed their website yesterday as well, and it's just like I feared it to be. Perhaps it's an improvement on mobile devices, but on desktop it just appears as a typical modern, dumbed-down site with a focus on touch screen devices.
Nami wrote:HAV starts today, POP started yesterday.
QuawerAir wrote:Norwegian has now carried 1,000,000 passengers to Finnish Lapland this year.
Nami wrote:QuawerAir wrote:Norwegian has now carried 1,000,000 passengers to Finnish Lapland this year.
It was the millionth passenger at Lapland airports this year, not Norwegian's millionth passenger in Lapland.
HELyes wrote:Yeah it seems also POP got A350 after all, suddenly their long haul leisure routes POP HAV PVR KBV HKT SGN look kind of tempting to me
QuawerAir wrote:HELyes wrote:Yeah it seems also POP got A350 after all, suddenly their long haul leisure routes POP HAV PVR KBV HKT SGN look kind of tempting to me
Havana got A330 instead of A350, at least the first flight.
audunj wrote:When the expansion at OSL opened, Bjørn Kjos said that DY would be starting flights to Seattle, but there seems to have been no news since. Have there been any updates regarding that?
Our flight AY865 HEL-GOT had to divert to Turku, as smell of smoke was detected in the aircraft. The plane landed safely and passengers were evacuated with slides
