DENMARK: Menzies Aviation Happy To Welcome New Airlines In Copenhagen And Stockholm

May and June marked an increase in the customer portfolio for Menzies Aviation’s Scandinavian stations, with the ground handler welcoming China Eastern to Stockholm Arlanda and Siberia Airlines to both Stockholm and Copenhagen Airports.

China Eastern inaugurated a new direct route from Shanghai Pudong Airport to Stockholm Arlanda on 16 June, providing connections to destinations in Asia. The airline is China’s second largest airline by passenger numbers, and operates both domestic and international flights.

In addition, Menzies welcomes Siberia Airlines’ first S7 Airlines opened two new routes between St Petersburg and Scandinavia flights to Stockholm and Copenhagen, connecting the two airports with St Petersburg, Russia.

This enables traffic growth between Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Also known as S7, the airline will operate two flights weekly from both airports.

The airline is Russia’s largest domestic airline and operates throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Miguel Gomez, Senior Vice President Continental Europe, said: Contract wins such as Siberia Airlines and China Eastern continue to enforce our strategic expansion throughout the Scandinavia region.

Thanks to the Menzies teams at Stockholm and Copenhagen for their hard work and continued excellence.


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NORWAY:Norwegian Starts Oslo Gardermoen (OSL) and Stockholm Arlanda (ARN)

Crew and passengers enjoyed the route launch cake at Oslo Gardermoen used to mark the start of flights to San Juan in Puerto Rico on 1 November. Weekly flights are operated by the LCC’s 787-8s.

Norwegian used the second week of the W15/16 season to start six new routes from five of its bases – including long-haul services from Oslo Gardermoen (OSL) and Stockholm Arlanda (ARN).

The average sector length of these routes is 4,290 kilometres (up from 2,251 last week) – with the longest route being the 8,530-kilometre Stockholm Arlanda to Las Vegas (LAS) airport pair (last week it was the 4,126-kilometre Gran Canaria to Karlstad route), while the shortest was again a Spanish domestic rotation, this time with the 1,410-kilometre link from Malaga (AGP) to Gran Canaria (LPA).

The average weekly frequency of the new routes was 1.8, down significantly from last week’s result of four. This was due in no small part to the two new weekly long-haul operations.