Billund Airport

Norwegian is fine-tuning its network across Scandinavia following a record summer season, balancing capacity while expanding in Denmark and the Baltics.

Denmark's Billund Airport says it has "strong demand" for flights to the south of France, but limited direct routings to the country.

Brindisi and Zurich are new destinations joining the carrier’s network in summer 2023.

Four new destinations are being added to its network.

The airline will fly 42 routes from the UK airport from April 2023.

The Danish carrier was shuttered from March 2020 to September 2022.

Air Greenland is also starting a new route to Denmark.

The carrier is relaunching service on the key LCY route, but other routes from Billund remain grounded.

Asturias-Amsterdam is one of six routes the Spanish LCC has scheduled to launch over the coming months.

The Turkish carrier will be operating service from the Danish cities to Greece, Spain and Turkey.

The expansion comes as the Scandinavian airline prepares to bolster its fleet.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

The nine new routes will target leisure traffic between Spain and Scandinavia.

The Czech airline looks set to be the first in Europe to reintroduce the Boeing 737 MAX.

The carrier intends to fully restore its domestic networks in Norway and Sweden to meet demand over the Christmas period.

The airline, a favorite of business passengers, sees demand evaporate because of COVID-19.

Total seat capacity is expected to be about 25-30% less than summer 2019, with COVID-19 still causing severe restrictions in many of its destinations.

Hungary’s Wizz Air has reinstated a second aircraft at its Riga base, reversing a decision to downsize operations in the Latvian capital.

The airline will operate 10 routes from the airport.

Wizz Air is to open a new base at Lviv in Ukraine and launch seven new routes from the country.

Budapest Airport has been crowned the overall winner of the World Routes Awards. Other winners at the prestigious ceremony included Wilco Sweijen from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, who took home the Individual Leadership Award.

Following a record-breaking number of votes, more than 30 organisations and ten individuals have been recognised for their outstanding achievements.

The annual Routes Europe Marketing Awards took place at Hannover’s Herrenhausen Gardens.

In the first of a two-part feature, Routesonline takes a closer look at the airports shortlisted in two categories of the Routes Europe 2019 Marketing Awards.

Discover which airports, tourism authorities and individuals have been recognised in the industry’s most coveted awards.