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QuawerAir wrote:

Do you know, which cities will SAS serve with A350s in the future? At least I know they will be used on North American routes. As A350s bring more capacity, where will be SAS' next new long-haul destinations? Seattle, Seoul, Manila, Johannesburg, Toronto or Vancouver perhaps?

I don't think they have announced any plans for the A350s yet. But my guess is that they will replace the A330/A340s on the busiest routes, like CPH-EWR. And maybe some A340s will be used to open new routes, and maybe they will leave the fleet.

No new long haul routes have been announced but they have hinted at Seoul and Toronto as possible new destination. There have also been speculations about India, but that doesn't seem as likely since Air India started flying to ARN and CPH. And SAS have stated that they are focusing on the northern hemisphere, so Joburg seems unlikely.

Finnair adds flights to top European destinations for summer 2018 and to Lapland for winter 2018/2019

In line with its growth strategy, Finnair continues to grow its traffic and will add frequencies to popular destinations in Europe for summer 2018 and winter 2018, as well as increase flights to the popular winter destinations in Finnish Lapland for the peak season in winter 2018/2019. The additions are fueled by the increasing number of Asians traveling to Finnair’s European destinations.

[...]

Finnair is also launching a new Rail & Fly cooperation with Deutsche Bahn, combining air and rail travel. The new cooperation means that customers buying a Finnair ticket to or from Germany can also include a rail trip to their booking. The cooperation covers more than 5,600 railway stations in Germany.

Finnair press release 5.12.2017

Added frequencies in summer 2018 to: LIS, BCN, BUD, KRK, GVA. AY will also (perhaps surpisingly) fly again to TSE (Astana) in July and August, 2x weekly.
Added frequencies in winter 2018-19 to: MAD, KEF, GVA (and previously reported added flights to Lapland).

Finnair revamps its business class with a Nordic touch

In conjunction with its annual Press Day, Finnair has today announced the launch of a new business class service concept and new Marimekko design elements for both cabin classes, celebrating its Nordic roots and offering customers a unique Nordic customer experience.
[...]
Finnair’s new business class service concept will commence as of February 7, 2018, on flights to Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai, with a gradual roll-out of the remaining long-haul destinations during the spring and summer.
[...]
“Our new seat textiles and comfort amenities have a fresh and modern aesthetic that is inspired by Nordic homes and landscapes. ”The new interior elements are rolled out to Finnair’s Airbus A350 aircraft in phases during 2018.

Finnair press release 5.12.2017

EasyJet's new Nordic routes from Berlin Tegel

Berlin Tegel – Copenhagen eff 07JAN18 2 daily
Berlin Tegel – Helsinki eff 01MAR18 1 daily
Berlin Tegel – Stockholm Arlanda eff 01MAR18 2 daily

Routesonline.com

I'm glad to see EasyJet back in HEL.

KLM starts flights to Växjö (VXO) in Sweden

Starting daily from the S18 timetable. Daily with a E175.

KLM's fourth swedish destination and 14th scandinavian destination. Amazing how KL seems to pick up on so many smaller EU destinations.

https://news.klm.com/klm-starts-flights ... n--sweden/

Few tweets from Airlineroute relating to Copenhagen and Oslo.

Hainan Airlines applied following routes with the CAAC on 06DEC17: 3 wkly Beijing – Oslo from April 2018, 2 wkly Shenzhen – Oslo from May 2018

Airlineroute/Twitter

Beijing Capital Airlines formally submitted application to the CAAC for 3 weekly Beijing – Copenhagen from March 2018

Airlineroute/Twitter

Sichuan Airlines applied following service from Chengdu with A330 or A350: [...] 2 weekly Copenhagen (eff July 2018)

Airlineroute/Twitter

Regarding KLM's new route to Vaxjo, it is perhaps worth noting that Estonian Air flew Vaxjo-Amsterdam in 2014. I've got a feeling (but not 100% certain) that Estonian's routes was operated as a KLM codeshare.

Amsterdam is not a huge metropolis and KLM has traditionally had a much higher proportion of connecting passengers compared to the likes to British Airways / Air France who have a greater propotion of (more profitable) passengers that begin / end their journeys in London or Paris. Competing head-on against the likes of Lufthansa would nevere have been sustainable long term so to become a major carrier KLM have had to specialilse in being the main European hub based airline at plenty of minor airpots all over Europe (particularly the UK and Scandinavia) as well as other continents

HEL traffic figures Nov 2017

Nov 2017
Domestic: 132,198 (+6.6%)
International: 1,219,448 (+14.4%)
Total: 1,485,383 (+12.9%)

YTD 2017
Domestic: 2,460,903 (+1.5%)
International: 14,918,387 (+11.4%)
Total: 17,379,290 (+9.9%)

With the growth of 9.9%, it seems like this year's PAX will be over 18,900,000, if not 19,000,000.

QuawerAir wrote:

Nov 2017
Domestic: 132,198 (+6.6%)

Correct number: 265.935

Another new Cityjet CRJ-900 for SAS operations is delivered

Canadair CRJ 900 15439 EI-FPU CityJet delivery 07dec17 YMX-KEF-CPH, SAS cs ex C-GZVU

KEF traffic numbers.

November 2017, 594,789 pax, 19.8 % more than November 2017.
YTD 2017 8,148,176 pax, 29,2 % more than same period 2016.

Royal Jordanian will launch a new 3x weekly Amman-Copenhagen route on 3 June 2018. The route will be operated year-round with A319.

cph.dk

I wonder, will RJ serve ARN and HEL from AMM in the future. The airline already serves both airports with charter services to Aqaba. And will CPH and OSL also get a charter service to Aqaba?

Finnair November 2017 traffic figures

Total
Nov: 949,600 (+15.0%)
YTD: 10,953,300 (+9.3%)

Europe
Nov: 545,000 (+13.2%)
YTD: 6,821,300 (+9.8%)

North Atlantic
Nov: 19,900 (+24.0%)
YTD: 290,800 (+6.9%)

Asia
Nov: 177,400 (+33.4%)
YTD: 1,925,300 (+17.6%)

Domestic
Nov: 207,300 (+6.3%)
YTD: 1,915,800 (+0.5%)

Cargo
Nov: 12,790.5 t (+16.4%)
YTD: 128,253.2 t (+7.1%)

Passenger load factor is 83.5% (+3.7) and on Asian flights 87.0% (+5.2).

news.cision.com

And Icelandair ends Birmingham service on 18 Jan 2018.

The airline previously planned to switch from Boeing 757 to Boeing 737 MAX 8 for this route from 01MAY18.

Routesonline.com

QuawerAir wrote:

EasyJet's new Nordic routes from Berlin Tegel

Berlin Tegel – Copenhagen eff 07JAN18 2 daily
Berlin Tegel – Helsinki eff 01MAR18 1 daily
Berlin Tegel – Stockholm Arlanda eff 01MAR18 2 daily

Routesonline.com

I'm glad to see EasyJet back in HEL.

Lentoposti.fi says that TXL-HEL would be 2 daily, but easyjet.com says 1 daily. I wonder if they will add another flight later.

ilari wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

EasyJet's new Nordic routes from Berlin Tegel

Berlin Tegel – Copenhagen eff 07JAN18 2 daily
Berlin Tegel – Helsinki eff 01MAR18 1 daily
Berlin Tegel – Stockholm Arlanda eff 01MAR18 2 daily

Routesonline.com

I'm glad to see EasyJet back in HEL.

Lentoposti.fi says that TXL-HEL would be 2 daily, but easyjet.com says 1 daily. I wonder if they will add another flight later.

Hopefully. Unless I'm wrong, Air Berlin operated to HEL 3x daily (21 weekly flights), so the gap will be filled as easyJet will operate to HEL 1x daily, Eurowings 6x weekly and Finnair 4x daily (instead of 3x daily) to Berlin. There will be only 1x weekly flight "missing", but that will be replaced by increased capacity as of March 2018.

Since easyJet starts flying to HEL as well as Eurowings, I think it's possible that HEL would get routes to Cologne/Bonn, London-Luton and/or other bases of those airlines in the future

CPH will lover the Feess for using the airport with an avarage 10% from April 2018 and at the same time the will make the charge for high frequent regional feeder flights 35 % cheaper

https://ekstrabladet.dk/ferie/koebenhav ... ne/6951564

https://www.cph.dk/en/about-cph/press/n ... -airlines/

About KLM - I haven't seen it mentioned here... KL added one weekly frequency to LPI (20x weekly instead of 19x) , started Oct 29. ( Sundays got 3 flights instead of 2. )

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QuawerAir wrote:

Hopefully. Unless I'm wrong, Air Berlin operated to HEL 3x daily (21 weekly flights), so the gap will be filled as easyJet will operate to HEL 1x daily, Eurowings 6x weekly and Finnair 4x daily (instead of 3x daily) to Berlin. There will be only 1x weekly flight "missing", but that will be replaced by increased capacity as of March 2018.

Since easyJet starts flying to HEL as well as Eurowings, I think it's possible that HEL would get routes to Cologne/Bonn, London-Luton and/or other bases of those airlines in the future

AB flew around 26 weekly flights, one reason being that AB fed AY's Asia network, which EW or U2 won't do.

Nami wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

Hopefully. Unless I'm wrong, Air Berlin operated to HEL 3x daily (21 weekly flights), so the gap will be filled as easyJet will operate to HEL 1x daily, Eurowings 6x weekly and Finnair 4x daily (instead of 3x daily) to Berlin. There will be only 1x weekly flight "missing", but that will be replaced by increased capacity as of March 2018.

Since easyJet starts flying to HEL as well as Eurowings, I think it's possible that HEL would get routes to Cologne/Bonn, London-Luton and/or other bases of those airlines in the future

AB flew around 26 weekly flights, one reason being that AB fed AY's Asia network, which EW or U2 won't do.

Finnair should start codesharing with easyJet or Eurowings or form a partnership with those airlines, but let's see if it happens.

FlyRow wrote:

KLM starts flights to Växjö (VXO) in Sweden

Starting daily from the S18 timetable. Daily with a E175.

KLM's fourth swedish destination and 14th scandinavian destination. Amazing how KL seems to pick up on so many smaller EU destinations.

https://news.klm.com/klm-starts-flights ... n--sweden/

It's amazing how many smaller markets KLM serves in Scandinavia!
They've always been big in Norway with secondary destinations, so it's extra fun to see them try out more of those in Sweden.
If VXO performs well, I can see the likes of Umeå/Luleå/Sundsvall/Örebro being added in the long run...

QuawerAir wrote:

Royal Jordanian will launch a new 3x weekly Amman-Copenhagen route on 3 June 2018. The route will be operated year-round with A319.

cph.dk

I wonder, will RJ serve ARN and HEL from AMM in the future. The airline already serves both airports with charter services to Aqaba. And will CPH and OSL also get a charter service to Aqaba?

HEL-AMM might work as both cities are Oneworld hubs, so with right schedule there are lots of potential connections in each end.

Interesting. Helsinki was amongst the world's most wanted routes in IATA's "Slots Kuala Lumpur 2017"-event as well as in "Slots Madrid 2017" along with New York, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Shanghai for example.

And "Copenhagen Airport provided seven new routes which no other airport had on their respective wish lists – namely Amman, Beirut, Johannesburg, Philadelphia, Seattle-Tacoma, Tehran and Vancouver."

Source

A man travelling to Egypt has been arrested at ARN after being caught with four large knives in his hand luggage.

ARN 11/2017

Domestic: 495,336 (+1.7%)
International: 1,552,531 (+4.3%)
Total: 2,047,867 (+3.6%)

Norwegian 11/2017

Internet bookings 77 % 78 % -1 p.p
ASK (mill) 6,316 4,923 28 %
RPK (mill) 5,284 4,135 28 %
Load factor 83.7 % 84.0 % -0.3 p.p
Passengers 2,520,220 2,265,145 11 %
Yield 0.33 0.34 -4 %
RASK 0.27 0.28 -4 %

November passenger numbers

OSL:

Domestic: 1.003.288 +4,7%
International: 1.117.764 +3,0 %
Total: 2.122.791 +3,9%

CPH:

Domestic: 148.565 -5,8%
Europe: 1.715.287 -3,8%
IC: 237.412 +0,4%

Total: 2.101.277 -3,4%


Seems like OSL was the largest Nordic airport in November

Congratulations to OSL! Maybe ARN will also be bigger than CPH in 2018?

Tranfer passengers were down by 15.5% at CPH.

Someone83 wrote:

November passenger numbers

OSL:

Domestic: 1.003.288 +4,7%
International: 1.117.764 +3,0 %
Total: 2.122.791 +3,9%

CPH:

Domestic: 148.565 -5,8%
Europe: 1.715.287 -3,8%
IC: 237.412 +0,4%

Total: 2.101.277 -3,4%


Seems like OSL was the largest Nordic airport in November

Turkish Airlines will start A330 wide-body operations from IST to OSL as of 25 March 2018. The increase in capacity will see an additional 40,000 seats between the two airports in 2018.

aviationtribune.com

Around 60 flights were cancelled at HEL yesterday, and only one of the three runways was open for traffic due to heavy snowfall.

ilari wrote:

Around 60 flights were cancelled at HEL yesterday, and only one of the three runways was open for traffic due to heavy snowfall.

Still a lot of delays this morning.

Overtime ban imposed by the Finnish Aviation Union contributes a lot to this mess as well.

As AY uses only one aircraft on most long-haul routes with schedules that don't leave much room for irrops, it's going to take a while to catch up on the delays.

ilari wrote:

Around 60 flights were cancelled at HEL yesterday, and only one of the three runways was open for traffic due to heavy snowfall.

Correction. The wind caused most of the delays. The only operating runway was 15/33 since the wind was from SE.

Wouldn't the wind affect more the landings? I landed yesterday at HEL at 450 and it was still OK.

New agreements with Argentina, Chile, Kenya and Tanzania
Finland has reached new, liberal air services agreements with Argentina, Chile, Kenya and Tanzania. The agreements will make it possible to open flight services between the countries and further to other destinations.

The principles of these agreements will be applicable between the respective aviation authorities even before they enter into force, and the agreed services can be started at once. However, the agreement with Argentina only allows code-sharing flights before entry into force.

More liberal code share services with Australia
The new agreement with Australia will allow stopovers in connection with code share arrangements.

Air services agreements signed with Jamaica and the Bahamas
The agreements made with Jamaica in 2016 and with the Bahamas in 2013 have now been signed.

trafi.fi

Would be really cool if Norwegian or Finnair launched Helsinki - Buenos Aires service at some point. Also, I would love to see new African routes as Marrakech might be the only scheduled one.

Aftenposten says DY and SK will increase competition in Norway with 1000000 more seats in the market combined. If the article is accurate they will increase 500000 each.

https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/1k ... sekvensene Article in Norwegian.

teme82 wrote:

ilari wrote:

Around 60 flights were cancelled at HEL yesterday, and only one of the three runways was open for traffic due to heavy snowfall.

Correction. The wind caused most of the delays. The only operating runway was 15/33 since the wind was from SE.

Right, thanks, weather anyway. I remember reading how British authorities were amazed how HEL has been closed only once because of snow, and that was for 15 minutes.

Oykie wrote:

Aftenposten says DY and SK will increase competition in Norway with 1000000 more seats in the market combined. If the article is accurate they will increase 500000 each.

https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/1k ... sekvensene Article in Norwegian.

Norwegian will also increase with 500.000 seats on international routes from OSL. So 1 million in total. So next year's growth at OSL has a good potential

http://media.norwegian.com/#/pressrelea ... ge-2329725

Someone83 wrote:

Oykie wrote:

Aftenposten says DY and SK will increase competition in Norway with 1000000 more seats in the market combined. If the article is accurate they will increase 500000 each.

https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/1k ... sekvensene Article in Norwegian.

Norwegian will also increase with 500.000 seats on international routes from OSL. So 1 million in total. So next year's growth at OSL has a good potential

http://media.norwegian.com/#/pressrelea ... ge-2329725

Yes, it will be interesting to follow next years growth. Will be harder to argue against the aviation tax?

Today:
- QR adds 2nd daily flight to HEL with A320.
- TUI Airways commences Helsinki - Phu Quoc service with Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

From March 25th 2018 Norwegian will operate CDG-OSL instead of ORY-OSL. No news yet on what will happen to their HEL/CPH/ARN flights from Orly.

Today Iran Air doubles their GOT flights from once to twice weekly!
IR726/727 is operated by A330-200 nonstop year-around, mondays and thursday.
They're off to a good start with a 72% load factor last monday and 80% on todays' new flight, and the peak holidays haven't even started yet...

New Widerøe flights announced

From BGO
BLL: 3x weekly from June 25 - Q400
GOT: 2x weekly from August 13 - Q400
MUC: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2
HAM: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2

From KRS:
STN: 4x weekly from August 13 - Q400

In addition KRS-TRD is doubled to 16x weekly next summer

Norwegian boosts Los Angeles and New York service

Norwegian will begin new flights to Los Angeles and New York from Amsterdam, Madrid and Milan in May, increasing to 10 the number of new transatlantic routes it plans to launch next year.

The carrier will add service to Los Angeles from Madrid four-times weekly from 15 July, and from Milan Malpensa four-times weekly from 16 June, it says.

New York JFK will see new service from Amsterdam four-times weekly from 7 May, and from Madrid three-times weekly from 17 July.

Norwegian will operate all of the routes with 291-seat Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

flightglobal.com

Interesting that Norwegian will launch long haul routes from airports where it has only few routes (MXP has routes to only ARN and OSL). O/D market might be the main factor.

Someone83 wrote:

New Widerøe flights announced

From BGO
BLL: 3x weekly from June 25 - Q400
GOT: 2x weekly from August 13 - Q400
MUC: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2
HAM: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2

From KRS:
STN: 4x weekly from August 13 - Q400

In addition KRS-TRD is doubled to 16x weekly next summer

This is great news. Do you know where it's mentioned that it will be STN? The press release just says London.

seansasLCY wrote:

Someone83 wrote:

New Widerøe flights announced

From BGO
BLL: 3x weekly from June 25 - Q400
GOT: 2x weekly from August 13 - Q400
MUC: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2
HAM: 3x weekly from August 13 - E190-E2

From KRS:
STN: 4x weekly from August 13 - Q400

In addition KRS-TRD is doubled to 16x weekly next summer

This is great news. Do you know where it's mentioned that it will be STN? The press release just says London.

Says Stanstead on their website

https://www.wideroe.no/krslon

Nouvelair Tunisie starts a new route this summer: Monastir – Copenhagen – Stockholm Arlanda – Monastir
which will be flown once/week with an Airbus A320. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... ht-in-s18/

BJ960 MIR 06.00 – 10.25 CPH A320
BJ961 CPH 11,10 – 12,30 ARN 13,15 – 16,10 MIR

NextJet will fly a new route starting January 8th: OER-ARN-OER-GEV-OER-ARN-OER OER-ARN will be flown 28 times/week and OER-GEV will be flown 22 times/week.
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/nextjet/pr ... ri-2334250

HEL reached the milestone of 18 million passengers on 13 December.

fessor wrote:

CPH will lover the Feess for using the airport with an avarage 10% from April 2018 and at the same time the will make the charge for high frequent regional feeder flights 35 % cheaper

https://ekstrabladet.dk/ferie/koebenhav ... ne/6951564

https://www.cph.dk/en/about-cph/press/n ... -airlines/

Seems like the whole truth is not presented in the press release or some vital information is hidden as the destinations relevant for the 35% reduction is only the 11 airports specified in the press release.

* The new incentive scheme of 35% will benefit airlines that provide feeder traffic between CPH and regional airports more than three times a day on the same route. At present, this covers the following destinations: Billund, Bornholm, Midtjylland, Sønderborg, Aalborg and Aarhus, as well as Bergen, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Vilnius and Gdansk.

To my knowledge, there is a whole range of destinations out of CPH with more than 3 daily departures.
My immediate thoughts where their lack of intercontinental connections.
However both GOT and BGO sees scheduled IC services.

So why only these 11 and why no insight in the qualification details?

Taxes will be lowered more for domestic transit then?

Norwegian files additional Trans-Atlantic frequency in S18

Barcelona – Los Angeles eff 25MAR18 Increase from 3 to 4-5 weekly (Current listing shows 5 weekly from BCN, 4 from LAX)
Barcelona – Newark eff 28MAR18 Increase from 4 to 6 weekly
Barcelona – Oakland eff 26MAR18 Increase from 3 to 5 weekly
Copenhagen – Los Angeles eff 27MAR18 Increase from 3 to 4 weekly
London Gatwick – Buenos Aires Ezeiza eff 27MAR18 Increase from 4 to 6 weekly (Norwegian Air International/DI service)

Routesonline.com

Norwegian's CPH-BOS and OSL-BOS seasonal services will not be served in S18.

Norwegian S18 Boston service changes

Copenhagen – Boston Seasonal 1 weekly service cancelled in S18
London Gatwick – Boston Increase from 4 to 7 weekly (From 12JUN18, Day 246 operates with Norwegian Air International Aircraft)
Oslo – Boston Seasonal 2 weekly service cancelled in S18

Planned new 4 weekly Paris CDG – Boston service, from 02MAY18, remains unchanged.

Routesonline.com