RedChili

There's one terminal with plenty of gates, and that's T3. It used to be a busy terminal when Skyways operated, but after the Skyways and Nextjet bankruptcies, T3 only has a handful of flights per day. T3 is so dead that I've sometimes seen it used as remote stands for SAS flights on ATR-72. I have a really bad picture of a couple of SAS planes parked outside of T3 along with two Nextjet planes:




The B-pier gates (13-16) which can handle non-Schengen arrivals with Schengen departures make sense for two airlines only, and that's SAS and Norwegian. If you want to avoid buses, those kind of turnarounds can only take place at the F-gates or at gates 13-16. It's typically used when you have a plane that's arriving from e.g. London, which will continue to Oslo.

highupinthesky

I agree it has plenty of spare gates compared to the total number of gates at this terminal, but it only has 4 gates in total as far as I remember, and neither can handle anything beyond a CRJ-900 and some of them are limited to ATR-72 size birds. Some of the slots at this terminal has been taken over by other airlines, but there are still a good number of slots available, but unfortunately not slots which can be utilized by the birds which occupies the pier F gates.

RedChili

The T3 map on ARN's web page shows gates 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59A-B. I'm not sure what 59A-B means, it's a long time since I was there. Maybe one of them is a walking gate and the other one a bus gate. So, there are seven or eight gates there.

Tomorrow, I can count 16 departures for the entire day:

0835 Karlstad
0840 Jonkoping
0855 Sveg
0910 Vilhelmina
0915 Torsby
0915 Hemavan
0915 Gallivare
1425 Jonkoping
1440 Karlstad
1810 Jonkoping
1815 Karlstad
1815 Torsby
1845 Sveg
1900 Kramfors
1915 Vilhelmina
1915 Gallivare

So, there's seven departures between 0835-0915, two between 1425-1440, and seven between 1810-1915. During the rest of the day, that terminal is empty. On Saturdays and Sundays, there are almost no flights at all. The only times that T3 doesn't have any spare capacity is basically on weekdays between 0800-0900 and 1800-1900. Otherwise, you can easily remote park small planes here and bus them from T5.

I'm not sure what the maximum size is, but I've seen planes like ATR, F50, ATP, and small jets park there.

But T3 or not: If they really need to find spare capacity for remote stands, they can do that, as they did on 24 May 2017, when there suddenly was a huge influx of both narrowbodies and widebodies from AMS and MAN in need of bus gates:

highupinthesky

I agree, but there aren't many small planes using T5 gates, and this is where the need for gates for long haul birds is.

pseudoswede

Can gate 87 in T2 handle a widebody? UA uses gate 86 with a 757.

RedChili

IIRC, there are at least two gates in T2 that can handle widebodies up to A300/B767. Not sure if 87 is among those.

FlyingMoose

BA780 was a 767 for years and was supplemented by 787's on some occasions which docked just fine in T2. I don't know the gate number.

RedChili

This is where the BA 788 docked very fine at T2:



Basically, a bus gate 50 meters from the terminal.

FlyingMoose

Was that during the inaugurals of the 787 when BA flew them to ARN for a month or so?

I've boarded their 787 from the jet bridge as well.

RedChili

Yes, this picture was of the very first BA 787 flight with passengers, LHR-ARN, on arrival into ARN. But I've seen both the 787 and A330 several times with bus gates from T2. I read a document (can't find it right now), which lists the maximum wing span allowed on T2 gates, and it was smaller than the 787 wing span, so I find your comment about boarding from het bridge really strange. Maybe they blocked off the two gates next to it to be able to do it.

FlyingMoose

Its at least 2 years ago since I last flew that route, not sure...

I do recall bussing into the inaugural.

ana787

the change to CPH is due to ARN has some special airport tax , so it's more expensive for SAS to fly there. Instead of flying A330 to ARN from LAX with some passengers going to CPH and OSL, it's cheaper to flying A320 or 737 from CPH to ARN. Smaller aircrafts pay less airport tax. The airport tax is related to combating global warming/climate change. There's better way than airport tax. I have been flying LAX-ARN once a year for last 3 years. Disappointed about this change.

Arnon

If only they had done it sooner!
Had to book CPH-LAX via FRA/MUC later this month.

vanillabean

Just picked up a Go Light for $348 and a Go Smart for $403. Felt like Cyber Monday.

vanillabean

Do you know how soon you can check in and drop off your checked bags at the SAS counter at LAX? I have some lounge time to spare once off an AS SFO-LAX flight.