Popular low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair continues to invest in the Swedish market by adding more destinations to Stockholm Arlanda and Göteborg Landvetter airports. Meanwhile, the Hungarian LCC, Wizz Air, is expanding its network at Malmö Airport and increasing its service with a route to Sarajevo, starting before Christmas.
Ryanair will open a new base at Stockholm Arlanda Airport this winter. With the addition of a three weekly service to Barcelona, it will serve around 25 European destinations, which will be launched by the beginning of November. The LCC will also launch a domestic link for the first time, to Gothenburg and Malmö from the Swedish capital and will continue to expand its network at Göteborg Landvetter. In addition to the planned new domestic route, it will launch services to Riga and Billund as well as Kaunas in Lithuania.
“It’s rewarding that both Ryanair and Wizz Air continue to expand in Sweden,” said Elizabeth Axtelius, Director Aviation Business at Swedavia Airports. “That Ryanair chose to add more destinations to the large number of routes they are opening this Autumn at both Stockholm Arlanda and Göteborg Landvetter, and that Wizz Air has chosen to launch another new route so shortly after they started operations to Banja Luca, shows a clear demand for travel, and is really a sign of the Swedish market’s strong position.”
Although travel remains affected by the pandemic, the demand for air travel continues to recover with Swedavia noting that in July for the first time since February 2020 the airports across its portfolio had more than one million passengers in a single month.
The airport operator credits the EU’s new digital COVID travel certificate with creating conditions for smoother travel, as control procedures can be further harmonised for travel within the EU.
