Originally Posted by
highupinthesky
Due to changes in seasons, you need to compare with the same month the year before. Anything else will be comparing apples to bananas. Beside that. CPH has always been the main hub for SK long haul. I can still remember the time when there were no SK long haul flights out of ARN and OSL at all.
ARN and OSL have gotten a bump in long haul within the last 10 years, at a time where CPH raised their fees more than OSL and ARN. Now it's going the other way where SE is adding taxes, the NO government have sold their shares in SK, and both OSL and ARN are raising their fees more than CPH. So to me it's natural that SK moves long haul to CPH, as this airport is better positiones for TATL flights, specially if you connect from Europa.
This has been argued so many times before. The problem has always been that SK doesn't make reasonable effort to ensure ARN/OSL routes are a success (or the SVG route). Bad timing, connections not aligned and poor marketing will cause any route to be less successful. Alienating your business travellers by putting all your relevant long haul routes in the least relevant Nordic country isn't helping anyone. Neither are increased routes to the US East Coast when demand yells West Coast and APAC.