LAX moves from ARN to CPH
#1
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LAX moves from ARN to CPH
From SAS press release:
https://www.sasgroup.net/en/sas-anno...om-copenhagen/
https://www.sasgroup.net/en/sas-abne...fra-kobenhavn/
https://www.sasgroup.net/en/sas-anno...om-copenhagen/
https://www.sasgroup.net/en/sas-abne...fra-kobenhavn/
Last edited by Tango Alpha; Sep 3, 2019 at 6:12 am Reason: Now link to English version.
#2
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Ah, great news! (for me )
EDIT:// well, the timing ex-CPH is mean! ...? Why not 11am or so that people from NO or SE have a realistic chance to get to CPH in time? Might work from OSL and ARN but if you have to connect from a smaller regional airport, no chance. Arriving around noon in LAX is not bad, but I wouldn't see any issue arriving 2pm. Probably slot restrictions in LAX but still.... that makes no sense.
EDIT:// well, the timing ex-CPH is mean! ...? Why not 11am or so that people from NO or SE have a realistic chance to get to CPH in time? Might work from OSL and ARN but if you have to connect from a smaller regional airport, no chance. Arriving around noon in LAX is not bad, but I wouldn't see any issue arriving 2pm. Probably slot restrictions in LAX but still.... that makes no sense.
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So its officially Danish Airlines then with Stockholm's last useful route disappearing? Final nail in the coffin and middle finger to their Swedish passengers.
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What do you expect with the way the number of PAX's are dropping in the SE airports. It's affecting the international flights too now. CPH have had raising number of PAX's despite the bankruptcy of 2 airlines, the SK strike and DY dropping a number of US routes out of CPH. Any airline who move routes to ARN are insane.
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Great news for CPH - and just shows that demand is simply not there ex-ARN.
They must be confident that they will not be cannibalising yield on the SFO route by having both that and LAX from CPH, though.
They must be confident that they will not be cannibalising yield on the SFO route by having both that and LAX from CPH, though.
#7
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A logical step would be to move the Asian routes to ARN and keep all the west bound longhauls in CPH. The early LAX slot ex ARN meant that they had no feeder traffic whatsoever.
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If I need to connect in Europe then I'll fly to a real airport and not the awful CPH.
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Being packed and being profitable are two very different things...
Every time a route out of ARN is launched and subsequently fails the Swedes scream and shout, but perhaps realising why they fail should be given a thought.
Every time a route out of ARN is launched and subsequently fails the Swedes scream and shout, but perhaps realising why they fail should be given a thought.
#10
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Im mostly frustrated that SK just does not consider connecting traffic. Neither in ARN, nor in CPH.
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And you believe they do that with flights out of CPH or OSL?
#14
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Makes perfect sense to move this to CPH as obviously ARN could not sustain the route these days. ARN is not really connected to Europe the same way CPH is, now in CPH there will be outbound connections on a whole different level from all over Germany, Poland, Baltics, Benelux as well as the Nordics. The real losers I guess are all secondary cities in Sweden that was able to catch the early ex-ARN flight and now will not make the CPH departure, but that is life in the periphery.