Elisabeth Axtelius, director of aviation business at Swedavia, discusses Stockholm Arlanda’s most notable new routes, the planned Swedish aviation passenger tax and unserved markets.
After a record performance handling 24.7 million passengers in 2016, Swedavia has confirmed it will reduce airport charges at Sweden’s largest international air gateway by an average of one per cent as of April 1, 2017. As a result, the airlines’ charges at the Stockholm Arlanda hub will have been decreased by a total of 6.5 per cent over the past three years. Since 2005, Swedavia’s airport charges have been cut by more than 20 per cent.
The airline will base a new Airbus A320 at the airport which is already served by Wizz Air flights, making Debrecen the airline’s second Hungarian airport with base operations.
The budget airline will station a single Airbus A320 in Tuzla in June 2015 to open four new routes to Munich Memmingen and Oslo Torp, from June 26, 2015, and Frankfurt Hahn and Stockholm Skavsta from June 28, 2015. The addition of these services will grow its total network from Tuzla to nine destinations in five countries.
