Danish low-cost airline Sterling is to start five new routes from Malmö, three months after Ryanair announced it was withdrawing from the southern Swedish airport.
Ryanair released tickets for 11 new routes from 7 bases around Europe on Thursday. The new routes include Dublin to Stockholm Skavsta but five Swedish routes will cease to operate as part of the change.
Low-cost airline Ryanair has announced a major expansion at Stockholm Skavsta airport, in a bid to rub salt in the wounds of strike-hit SAS. The airline plans to launch 13 new routes to European cities, including Liverpool, Berlin and Valencia.
Low-cost airline Ryanair plans to shut down its routes from Stockholm Skavsta to Brussels, Kaunas and Gdansk due to a lack of profitability. Instead the company is to open up three new lines from its Swedish hub, taking passengers to Venice, Sardinia and Marseille.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport has been given permission to increase the number of passengers it carries to 6 million per year, up from 1.7 million in 2006, as part of a major expansion programme.
Heavy snow in southern England has led to the cancellation of flights to and from a number of airports. Among the affected flights are all Ryanair services in both directions between Sweden and London.
Passengers trying to get to Britain from Sweden in time for Christmas were facing severe disruption on Thursday, with delays and cancellations on both British Airways and SAS flights due to thick fog at UK airports.
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to launch two new lines from Västerås airport, to the west of Stockholm, following the new government's decision not to introduce a planned green tax on plane tickets.
Flights between Sweden and Britain faced delays and cancellations on Thursday after a terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight to the United States was foiled.
It is looking doubtful that Sweden’s proposed flight tax will ever happen, after the European Union commission that is studying the legality of the fee has asked several critical questions of the country’s government.
The implementation of Sweden’s controversial flight tax could have to wait a few months. The government is still waiting for a European Union decision before it can be imposed.
Ryanair could begin to pull flights from Sweden before the summer is finished if the Swedish government doesn’t clarify its position regarding a proposed 100 kronor environmental tax on flights entering and leaving the country, said the airline’s Nordic boss Lotta Lindquist-Brosjö on Monday.
A man in his 30s has been put on probation and ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment after being found guilty of sexually harassing at least six air hostesses on the streets of Nyköping in the last year.
London-registered low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Wednesday it would offer flights from Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas to Malmö in Sweden and the Danish capital Copenhagen.
Less than three months after starting operations in Lithuania, Irish low-cost airline Ryanair announced on Wednesday the launch of a second route from the Baltic state, linking the city of Kaunas to the Swedish capital Stockholm.
A Ryanair flight carrying 111 people from Tampere in Finland to Britain's Stansted airport was forced to make an emergency landing in Sweden due to engine trouble, the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority said on Wednesday.
The low price airline Ryanair has declared its opposition to the proposal from the Swedish government and its allies to introduce a new flight tax of 100 kronor. If the tax is introduced it will harm the tourist business and economic growth in Sweden, argues the company, which is urging the Swedish parliament to reject the proposal.
A pilot who landed a plane too fast in what an Irish air accident report described on Thursday as a "serious incident" had been suffering marital problems and was to due to return to his homeland Australia.
