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Jan 04, 2013 (newstodate): The Swedish carrier Nordic Air Sweden has selected Denmark's Copenhagen Airport as its coming new hub for European traffic.
Based at Umeaa, in Northern Sweden, the carrier is now building up a network to serve Arvidsjaur and Hemavan in Sweden's Lappland region with flights to and from Umeaa.
As the next step, starting from February 28, 2013, North Air Sweden will launch flights between Umeaa and Copenhagen Airport with one daily rotation, and the flight will continue once weekly to Amman, in Jordan, once weekly to Beirut, in Lebanon, and twice weekly to Skopje, in Macedonia.
All flights will be operated with the airline's single Airbus A320 aircraft.
-It is indeed a major step for us to move from charter and ACMI operations into scheduled services, but we have evaluated the markets and found potentials for these new offerings, says Stig-Erik Dahlberg, North Air Sweden CEO.
-We will still be operating in the charter and ACMI market, leasing in additional aircraft capacity as needed during the peak seasons.
-Obviously, for building up Copenhagen Airport as our new European hub we need not only own onward flight connections, but also interline agreements with other carriers. Details on this and other pertinent issues will be presented at a forthcoming press conference in Copenhagen, tentatively scheduled for January 16, 2013, says Mr Dahlberg.
Based at Umeaa, in Northern Sweden, the carrier is now building up a network to serve Arvidsjaur and Hemavan in Sweden's Lappland region with flights to and from Umeaa.
As the next step, starting from February 28, 2013, North Air Sweden will launch flights between Umeaa and Copenhagen Airport with one daily rotation, and the flight will continue once weekly to Amman, in Jordan, once weekly to Beirut, in Lebanon, and twice weekly to Skopje, in Macedonia.
All flights will be operated with the airline's single Airbus A320 aircraft.
-It is indeed a major step for us to move from charter and ACMI operations into scheduled services, but we have evaluated the markets and found potentials for these new offerings, says Stig-Erik Dahlberg, North Air Sweden CEO.
-We will still be operating in the charter and ACMI market, leasing in additional aircraft capacity as needed during the peak seasons.
-Obviously, for building up Copenhagen Airport as our new European hub we need not only own onward flight connections, but also interline agreements with other carriers. Details on this and other pertinent issues will be presented at a forthcoming press conference in Copenhagen, tentatively scheduled for January 16, 2013, says Mr Dahlberg.