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Widerøe believes a “fee shock” from state-owned airport operator Avinor may have consequences for its flight offerings, especially for rural communities.

Passengers at Norway’s airports will shortly be able to dispense with check-in desks as a new mobile system comes into operation.

Norway is pressing ahead with its plans to bring remote-control towers to smaller airports and airfields throughout the country.

Martin Langaas, Director Traffic Development & Cargo at Avinor, and Gaute Riise, Vice President Traffic Development, speak to Routes.

The country’s airports operator has given the green light for the new facility.

We round up some of the key quotes from the conference programme of Routes Europe 2022.

Stakeholders must collaborate and invest in decarbonization measures despite the financial pressures on the industry.

Bergen Airport director Helge Eidsnes tells Routes why airlines should choose the 'gateway to the fjords.'

As the route development community prepares to gather in Bergen for Routes Europe 2022, traffic across the country’s airports continues to recover from the effects of the pandemic.

The 15th regional route development event will unite some of the biggest carriers in Europe and across the world to drive sustained growth for the region’s route networks.

The Scandinavian country’s exiting air passenger tax looks set to be overhauled.

The fast-growing Hungarian ULCC plans to open a new base in Oslo and enter Norway’s domestic market on three high-density routes.

The Scandinavian is opening a new domestic route in Norway from next month, last served 17 years ago.

Routes Europe, the route development forum for Europe, will this April gather senior decision-makers in Bergen, Norway, to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the aviation industry.

The route is operated with a 270-seat Boeing 787.

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Norwegian is launching 16 new direct routes from Scandinavia from spring 2020, seven of which are from Oslo, Trondheim, Stavanger and Routes Europe 2020 host Bergen. The carrier is also making further changes to its transatlantic network by adding three new routes but dropping Madrid to New York from its schedule.

The flygskam – or flight-shaming – movement is materially impacting the public’s desire to travel and radiating across Europe from Scandinavia. Ahead of Routes Europe 2020 we speak to two of the key figures in the front-line of route development in the region.

The aviation industry is unfairly viewed as the “bad guy” on sustainability and needs to change the narrative, airport leaders have claimed.

As Routes Europe 2019 comes to an end, this year’s hosts in Hannover passed the baton to Avinor, which will host the event in Bergen, Norway in 2020.

Bergen, a city on the south-western coast of Norway surrounded by mountains and fjords, has been revealed as the host destination for Routes Europe in 2020. Routesonline caught up with Jasper Spruit, vice president of traffic development at airport operator Avinor, to find out more about Norway’s year-round appeal.

Route development decision-makers from across Europe will meet in Bergen, Norway, for the 15th European route development forum.

Many airports are not alive to the opportunities that exist from cargo because the benefits are not always immediately obvious, delegates at World Routes have been told.

Winner of the Best Stand Award at World Routes 2016, Avinor brought a taste of Norway to China.

Brussels Airport has been crowned the overall winner of the Routes Europe 2018 Marketing Awards. Leon Verhallen, the airport's head of aviation development, said: “We had not been nominated for two years in a row, so we are absolutely delighted to win this award and be recognised by our European clients."