London Southend Airport has unveiled direct flights with Widerøe to Bergen in Norway. The inaugural flight departed London Southend on Monday morning. The link with Bergen also offers a further eight connections across Norway.
“We are strengthening our focus on Bergen as a hub for traffic throughout the country,” said Christian Skaug, Commercial Director at Widerøe. “With this new route we continue to build on the network Widerøe has developed in and around Bergen and Western Norway in recent years. We start cautiously, but if we see that the offer is well received, we will consider adding more weekly departures,” he continued.
Meanwhile London Southend’s CEO Glyn Jones, added his appreciation for the new route stating: “At a difficult time for aviation the new route demonstrates confidence in the airport, and the interest people have to returning to fly to locations that continue to have low coronavirus incident rates.”
