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Other new SAS 2019 routes:

OSL-AYT

OSL-FAO

BGO-NCE

BGO-GZP

SVG-GZP

ARN-KEF

ARN-MRS

ARN-CTA

ARN-NAP

GOT-FAO

QuawerAir wrote:

Nami wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

Apparently, China Southern Airlines plans to open 9 new routes to Europe from Guangzhou within next two years, including Copenhagen and Helsinki!

This is great news if this will materialize!

Yes, it will most certainly come true just like the examples of Lucky Air and Beijing Capital Airlines have shown! And you could probably add Tibet Airlines to that list as well.

The route makes zero sense in the current situation and especially with AY already on the route. It would not surprise me if that was simply an error in translation.

Haha, very funny. I think China Southern is more likely than those other Chinese carriers as CZ would probably get the permission to operate to Finland easier than Lucky Air, Beijing Capital Airlines or Tibet Airlines as CZ already flies to Europe and is much bigger airline with probably better ties with CAAC. I wouldn't say "the route makes zero sense" either if you look at what CZ is doing at CAN, not to mention that Guangzhou metropolitan area is one of the largest in Asia by population. As Finland is getting more and more popular, especially among the Chinese, I believe China Southern will come to HEL sooner or later, given also their huge growth plan.

It’s not about permission or no permission. Both Lucky Air and Beijing Capital Airlines were given the green light from the CAAC but still nothing came out of those routes. The point-to-point market is simply too limited for two carriers and with no feed for CZ as long as they don’t join Oneworld it’s just more empty talk yet again.

Bostrom wrote:

Other new SAS 2019 routes:

OSL-AYT

OSL-FAO

BGO-NCE

BGO-GZP

SVG-GZP

ARN-KEF

ARN-MRS

ARN-CTA

ARN-NAP

GOT-FAO

Most of them has been flown previously at one point or another

Qatar will continue to fly 10x weekly to OSL the coming summer, up from 7x weekly vs S17, however, after using A350-900 the coming winter, they will change back to 787-8

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... f-07oct18/

Doha – Oslo eff 31MAR19 10 weekly service maintained in summer season, increase from 7 weekly, 787-8 operating

Finnair continued to grow in September. Unfortunately, cancellations due to the storms and typhoons in Asia affected the passenger numbers (except for NGO that saw 14 weekly flights instead of 7 flights for a week).

Finnair Traffic Performance in September 2018

In September, Finnair carried 1,159,400 passengers, 7.8% more than in the corresponding period of 2017. The number of passengers grew in Asian traffic 5.5%, in European traffic 10.0% and in domestic 3.1%, while it decreased in North American traffic by -1.0%.

Finnair's overall capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres (ASK) increased in September by 13.2% year-on-year. Finnair's traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) grew by 7.2%. The high ASK growth rate was reflected in the Passenger Load Factor (PLF), which decreased year-on-year by -4.6% points to 80.8%.

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SAS resumes ARN-OUL next month with 4x weekly flights, but for S19 they have decided to increase to 12x weekly. Operated by CRJ900.

September numbers for KEF (Keflavik Airport)

Departing: 290,249 Arriving 269,986 Transfer 422,593 together 982.828 increase over 2017 13% growth, mainly in transfer passengers

Year including September:

Departing: 2,021,962 Arriving 2,029,176 Transfer 2,685,929 together 6,737,067 increase over 2017 13.1%

SASViking wrote:

New SK S19 routes from Denmark:

CPH-CTA 3x weekly operated by an A319. Starting April 6th.

CPH-NQY 1x weekly operated by a CRJ-900. Starting July 1st.

CPH-FLR 3x weekly operated by an A319. Starting April 11th.

CPH-MRS 2x weekly operated by a Boeing 737. Starting June 29th.

CPH-SZZ 2x weekly operated by an ATR 72. Starting April 1st.

AAR-FAO 1x weekly operated by an A320. Starting April 6th.

AAR-FCO 1x weekly operated by a CRJ-900. Starting April 14th.

The schedule is out. Some Danish media mixed the route informations up quite a bit, so here are the correct ones.


CPH-CTA 3x Weekly (Mon, Thu, Sun) Aircraft: A320 Series

SK1697 CPH-CTA 14:50-18:00
SK1698 CTA-CPH 18:50-22:35

CPH-NQY 2x weekly (Mon, Fri) Aircraft: CRJ-900 Operated by CityJet

SK1533 CPH-NQY 17:00-18:25
SK1534 NQY-CPH 19:05-22:10

CPH-FLR 3x weekly (Mon, Wed, Fri) Aircraft: A319

SK2961/2962 Time varies depending on day and week

CPH-MRS 2x weekly (Tue, Sat) Aircraft: CRJ-900 Operated by CityJet (Sat) and A320 Series (Tue)

SK1561 CPH-MRS 17:20-19:50 (Sat)
SK1561 CPH-MRS 16:15-18:45 (Tue)
SK1562 MRS-CPH 20:40-23:05 (Sat)
SK1562 MRS-CPH 19:35-22:00 (Tue)

CPH-SZZ 5x weekly (Dx67) Aircraft: ATR 72-600 Operated by Nordica/Regional Jet

SK2757 CPH-SZZ 08:25-09:25 (Mon. Tue, Wed, Thu)
SK2757 CPH-SZZ 11:00-12:00 (Fri)
SK2758 SZZ-CPH 09:50-10:50 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu)
SK2758 SZZ-CPH 12:25-13:25 (Fri)

AAR-FCO 1x weekly (Sat) Aircraft: CRJ-900 Operated by CityJet

SK1681 AAR-FCO 14:15-16:50
SK1682 FCO-AAR 17:40-20:15

AAR-FAO 1x weekly (Sat) Aircraft: A320Neo

SK2953 AAR-FAO 15:55-18:45
SK2954 FAO-AAR 09:45-14:25

Someone83 wrote:

Don't know the schedule, exact frequencies and until when yet, but Finnair is expanding their wetlease with Widerøe, which will operate AY1437 HEL-TXL and AY1251 HEL-BUD, with their E190-E2 from Dec 15th. This comes in addition to HEL-BGO daily and their 1x weekly TOS-HEL

It now looks like this wetlease will last all the way until the end of March 2019 with Wideroe operating "some flights" to TXL and VIE.

https://www.finnair.com/int/gb/flightinfo

I guess it hasn't been mentioned here yet that one A330 (OH-LTS) from AY has been stuck at ORD for the last two weeks due to some kind of damage to the rear of the plane (probably from a high loader?). As a result AY has been cancelling flights every day this month. Must be quite some damage for the repair work to take this long, AY is being very tight-lipped.

Nami wrote:

I guess it hasn't been mentioned here yet that one A330 (OH-LTS) from AY has been stuck at ORD for the last two weeks due to some kind of damage to the rear of the plane (probably from a high loader?). As a result AY has been cancelling flights every day this month. Must be quite some damage for the repair work to take this long, AY is being very tight-lipped.

A week ago this was published on the front page of the Finnair website. The article mentioned what happened and which flights were cancelled. I don't see the article now and unfortunately I have forgotten the details.

MartijnNL wrote:

Nami wrote:

I guess it hasn't been mentioned here yet that one A330 (OH-LTS) from AY has been stuck at ORD for the last two weeks due to some kind of damage to the rear of the plane (probably from a high loader?). As a result AY has been cancelling flights every day this month. Must be quite some damage for the repair work to take this long, AY is being very tight-lipped.

A week ago this was published on the front page of the Finnair website. The article mentioned what happened and which flights were cancelled. I don't see the article now and unfortunately I have forgotten the details.

That info is still on AY’s website:

https://www.finnair.com/int/gb/flightinfo

So why is Finnair being very tight-lipped, Nami? It looks like they are very open about it.

Qatar Airways W18 service changes

Copenhagen will see an increase in weekly frequencies and A350-900 will be deployed on the route; Stockholm will see Boeing 777-300ER. No significant changes on Doha-Helsinki -route, but A330 will be operating earlier than last year, when A330 operations started in December.

Doha – Copenhagen eff 14DEC18 Increase from 14 to 18 weekly, additional 4 weekly operated by A350-900XWB / 777-300ER / 787-8

Doha – Helsinki eff 28OCT18 QR301/302 and QR303/304 A330-200/-300 replaces previously filed 787-8 (Overall 1 daily each A320 and A330)

Doha – Stockholm Arlanda eff 01DEC18 QR167/168 and QR169/170 358-seater 777-300ER replaces 787-8 (Overall 1 daily each 77W and 359)

Routesonline

Is there any reason for QR deploying the A350 to CPH and the B777 to ARN or does it have to do with aircraft availability?

B747forever wrote:

MartijnNL wrote:

Nami wrote:

I guess it hasn't been mentioned here yet that one A330 (OH-LTS) from AY has been stuck at ORD for the last two weeks due to some kind of damage to the rear of the plane (probably from a high loader?). As a result AY has been cancelling flights every day this month. Must be quite some damage for the repair work to take this long, AY is being very tight-lipped.

A week ago this was published on the front page of the Finnair website. The article mentioned what happened and which flights were cancelled. I don't see the article now and unfortunately I have forgotten the details.

That info is still on AY’s website:

https://www.finnair.com/int/gb/flightinfo

The incident occurred 25th of September so the damage must be bad or they don't have parts for the repair. Either way it's going to be expensive for some one...

HEL September 2018 statistics

Domestic: 229,366 (+1.4%)
International: 1,575,425 (+7.9%)
Total: 1,804,791 (+7.1%)

YTD:

Domestic: 2,141,674 (+8.6%)
International: 13,661,268 (+11.6%)
Total: 15,802,942 (+11.2%)

Finnair will lease an Airbus A330-200 from Air Italy to operate on routes to Chicago and Miami. AY will be using this 260-seat aircraft between 12 Oct and 31 Oct.

Lentoposti

SAS will once again add flights to South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX.

Schedule:

SK6951 CPH-AUS 11:45-15:25 06MAR19

SK6952 AUS-ARN 20:15-12:35+1 12MAR19

Both flights will be operated by an A330-300 aircraft

Blerg wrote:

Is there any reason for QR deploying the A350 to CPH and the B777 to ARN or does it have to do with aircraft availability?

Less competition in ARN?

QuawerAir wrote:

Finnair will lease an Airbus A330-200 from Air Italy to operate on routes to Chicago and Miami. AY will be using this 260-seat aircraft between 12 Oct and 31 Oct

Lentoposti

In English: https://company.finnair.com/en/media/al ... id=3079427

That will be a wet lease, the flights have two cabin crew members from AY. An interesting combo of Finnish-Italian-Qatari elements ,)

Blerg wrote:

Is there any reason for QR deploying the A350 to CPH and the B777 to ARN or does it have to do with aircraft availability?

will QR160 and QR 164 not be 777-300ER and then flight QR162 will change between A350, B787 and 777 as i read it

HELyes wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

Finnair will lease an Airbus A330-200 from Air Italy to operate on routes to Chicago and Miami. AY will be using this 260-seat aircraft between 12 Oct and 31 Oct

Lentoposti

In English: https://company.finnair.com/en/media/al ... id=3079427

That will be a wet lease, the flights have two cabin crew members from AY. An interesting combo of Finnish-Italian-Qatari elements ,)

Damn, I am going to be on one of those flights this Saturday.

After Ryanair announcing PRG/MAN/BCN from GOT starting next April, Norwegian will now increase following routes from GOT:

Malaga: From 3 to 7 weekly
Barcelona: From 4 to 7 weekly
Alicante: From 4 to 5 weekly

Like mentioned earlier, BCN will be added 3 x weekly by Ryanair on the same date. Together with Vueling the route will double to 13 weekly by DY/VY/FR...

SASViking wrote:

SAS will once again add flights to South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX.

Schedule:

SK6951 CPH-AUS 11:45-15:25 06MAR19

SK6952 AUS-ARN 20:15-12:35+1 12MAR19

Both flights will be operated by an A330-300 aircraft

Good to hear! The SAS executives reported full flights last year which was a great first time success.

CPH September 2018 statistics

Domestic: 149,711 (-1.6%)
Europe: 2,344,520 (+3.8%)
Intercontinental: 297,730 (+13.4%)
Total: 2,791,961 (+4.5%)

YTD:

Domestic: 1,193,568 (+0.1%)
Europe: 18,807,474 (+3.0%)
Intercontinental: 2,754,581 (+10.9%)
Total: 23,317,168 (+3.7%)

Blerg wrote:

How come Ryanair keeps on expanding at GOT? Aren't they bothered by the new government tax?

I don’t know, but is doesn’t seen to scare them away. Now they are adding a fourth new destination for next spring, to Dublin!
Together with PRG/BCN/MAN, the new DUB route will bring the total destinations by FR from GOT to 17!

SWISS will increase its offering to the Nordics in Summer 19:

ZRH-CPH will be increased from 21/7 to 28/7 by introducing a night stopper in CPH

ZRH-GOT will be increased from 7/7 to 14/7. Day-trips will be possible everyday.

PhilInBRN wrote:

SWISS will increase its offering to the Nordics in Summer 19:

ZRH-GOT will be increased from 7/7 to 14/7. Day-trips will be possible everyday.

Wow, this route was launched only three years ago.
It seems like GOT is currently on fire. I have never seen so much expansion and growth announced for the same period. 2019 will be a great year for Gothenburg!

kruiseri wrote:

HELyes wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

Finnair will lease an Airbus A330-200 from Air Italy to operate on routes to Chicago and Miami. AY will be using this 260-seat aircraft between 12 Oct and 31 Oct

Lentoposti

In English: https://company.finnair.com/en/media/al ... id=3079427

That will be a wet lease, the flights have two cabin crew members from AY. An interesting combo of Finnish-Italian-Qatari elements ,)

Damn, I am going to be on one of those flights this Saturday.

I wouldn't be too worried, at least the hard product looks pretty good, not worse than AY's oldish A333 cabins. After all they didn't get HiFly A330.

HELyes wrote:

kruiseri wrote:

HELyes wrote:

In English: https://company.finnair.com/en/media/al ... id=3079427

That will be a wet lease, the flights have two cabin crew members from AY. An interesting combo of Finnish-Italian-Qatari elements ,)

Damn, I am going to be on one of those flights this Saturday.

I wouldn't be too worried, at least the hard product looks pretty good, not worse than AY's oldish A333 cabins. After all they didn't get HiFly A330.

I’ll let you know on Sunday I doubt there is Wi-Fi onboard...

Will AY ever consider introducing premium economy? The A350 would be a nice PE investment considering they will be around for the next 15-20 years.

tkoenig95 wrote:

Will AY ever consider introducing premium economy?

They did consider PE, instead of a new travel class their widebodies now have around 40 Economy Comfort seats each. That means a Y seat with 3-5 inches extra legroom, noise cancelling head phones, a modest amenity kit, free WiFi for one hour, priority boarding and exit. Otherwise an ordinary Y class service, including Y meals and drinks.

kruiseri wrote:

HELyes wrote:

kruiseri wrote:

Damn, I am going to be on one of those flights this Saturday.

I wouldn't be too worried, at least the hard product looks pretty good, not worse than AY's oldish A333 cabins. After all they didn't get HiFly A330.

I’ll let you know on Sunday I doubt there is Wi-Fi onboard...

It was actually pretty good ! Even thought the seats were not fully flat bed, it didn't bother me at all. Slept like a baby through most of the flight.

There is Wi-Fi, but it was pretty expensive. Not standard AY offering but Air Italy:s own terms. Soft product was standard AY, the Italian crew was still learning the AY service concept (this being their second flight).

[quote="kruiseri"][/quote]

Thanks for the info! I didn't realize the J seats are not fully flat, sounds not a problem. They have cheap flights MXP-BKK, would be cool to try them just for fun.

Some interesting movements up north on the Faroe Islands as of recent days, with the Azerbaijan and Kosovo football teams visiting the islands. Azerbaijan left their own airline's A320 behind in Copenhagen, while the Kosovo flew all the way to Vagar with Trade Air, with just a fuel stop in CPH:

http://worldcupcharters.blogspot.com/20 ... dlies.html

Finnair will fly to Hong Kong 11x weekly instead of 10 weekly flights, as of 3 Nov 2018. From 10 Dec 2018, there will be 12 weekly flights to HKG (announced already in January 2018).

aviationtribune.com

jamesontheroad wrote:

Good to know, thanks. KLM is my airline of choice in Europe, and planning a work trip to Umeå soon it surprised me that a growing university town hadn’t managed to attract a feeder to a non-Nordic hub like AMS. Hopefully VXO will mature and KLM will consider other cities.

It's a bit weird actually that UME didn't have a single links to Germany, considering how many Germans are here in Umeå. I'm an international student at the university and 80% of the people I've met were Germans. Also, connecting via ARN is super expensive and for my last trip to London, LHR-ARN-UME almost cost twice than LHR-ARN! Even DY charge more than SK for my travel date.

I ended up staying in my friend's place in Uppsala for 3 days waiting for SJ's high-speed sista minuten (did I spell it right? lol) ticket. I ended up in the pet-friendly compartment on the nattåg, with a Swedish hillbilly couple who let out the most foul fart ever about 15 minutes before Hudiksvall that woke me up from my sleep. I'm still a bit traumatized by that....

Norwegian will end flights between SFT and ARN in January 2019, citing the new aviation tax and poor profitability.

https://flyg24nyheter.com/2018/10/16/no ... kelleftea/

DAT is planning to put their new ATR-72-600 into service tomorrow

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/27461_1539578171.jpg

On 1 April 2019, Gothenburg will get its fifth new route starting the same week!
This time up, it’s Laudamotion that will serve Stuttgart twice weekly, Mondays and Fridays!

The main targets are business travelers in the car industry, but also inbound German tourists. The market has grown from 2,000 passengers in 2010 to 16,000 last year!

STR will be the sixth German city served from GOT!

https://www.swedavia.se/landvetter/nyhe ... udamotion/

Next winter season (on14 Dec 2018 - 13 Jan 2019 and 16 Feb 2019 - 29 Mar 2019), Finnair will be flying to Málaga (AGP) with Airbus A330-300.

company.finnair.com

SunExpress will be flying to Antalya (2x weekly) and Konya (1x weekly) from OSL during Summer 2019. In addition will they increase Izmir from 1x to 2x weekly

QuawerAir wrote:

Next winter season (on14 Dec 2018 - 13 Jan 2019 and 16 Feb 2019 - 29 Mar 2019), Finnair will be flying to Málaga (AGP) with Airbus A330-300.

company.finnair.com

Wow, thats seems like a expensive allocation of a A330!

Should also be mentioned in this thread I think...

Hainan Airlines
To start new 3 weekly Oslo-Beijing route on A330-300 from spring 2019.

Ethiopian Airlines
To start new 2 weekly Stockholm-Oslo-Asmara route 1st December. In addition Oslo-Stockholm-Addis Ababa flights will increase to 6 weekly. All on B787-800/900 and a total of 8 weekly to Africa nonstop.

It looks like BA will drop HEL from 2x daily to just 1x daily in S19. Really quite unfortunate and not least for connections, but at least AY in the same alliance salvages a bit.

Nami wrote:

It looks like BA will drop HEL from 2x daily to just 1x daily in S19. Really quite unfortunate and not least for connections, but at least AY in the same alliance salvages a bit.

If you have a choice of A320 with a £3 coffee vs a A359 with a free coffee it is not really surprising...

AY and BA have joint venture anyway. And BA and AY have flown the route wingtip to wingtip. So there is really no reason to choose BA over AY on the route.

Nami wrote:

It looks like BA will drop HEL from 2x daily to just 1x daily in S19. Really quite unfortunate and not least for connections, but at least AY in the same alliance salvages a bit.

Hopefully, AY or D8 will increase flights to fill the gap. It's useless to think that a new airline would step in...

QuawerAir wrote:

Nami wrote:

It looks like BA will drop HEL from 2x daily to just 1x daily in S19. Really quite unfortunate and not least for connections, but at least AY in the same alliance salvages a bit.

Hopefully, AY or D8 will increase flights to fill the gap. It's useless to think that a new airline would step in...

Dropping 1 daily flight will cause a gap? I doubt that Norwegian will rush to add another LGW rotation, and I doubt AY has a slot for another LHR rotation.

B747forever wrote:

QuawerAir wrote:

Nami wrote:

It looks like BA will drop HEL from 2x daily to just 1x daily in S19. Really quite unfortunate and not least for connections, but at least AY in the same alliance salvages a bit.

Hopefully, AY or D8 will increase flights to fill the gap. It's useless to think that a new airline would step in...

Dropping 1 daily flight will cause a gap? I doubt that Norwegian will rush to add another LGW rotation, and I doubt AY has a slot for another LHR rotation.

AY does an additional flight on Sundays, departing HEL at 1125am. (Do they still do that?) Could they have any chance to get slots at least for two or three more days a week for this flight?

Qatar Airways seems to deploy a wide-body aircraft also to the 2nd flight to HEL (QR308)!

- As of 10 Dec 2018, A350-900 will be flying to HEL (in addition to A330)
- eff 14 Jan 2019, QR will be flying to HEL 2x daily with Airbus A330 (2nd daily flight with A330-200)

No changes to S19 schedule yet, but I expect to see 2x daily wide-body operations also during the summer season.