The Swedish carrier Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is expanding at Stockholm Arlanda Airport and will launch non-stop services to the polish capital Warsaw.
The new route will launch on 1 May 2020 and will be flown twice weekly on weekdays and once on Sundays. With more than 40 % of passengers flying to or from Stockholm Arlanda and to or from Poland for business purposes, the route will cater for both business and leisure passengers. This is an expanding market, and many large Swedish companies have operations in the Warsaw region. Poland is likewise increasingly important in terms of visitors travelling to the Stockholm region, with such visitors showing continued steady growth in 2019, almost 30 % calculated in commercial overnight stays.
“The new service will increase accessibility between two fast-growing economic hubs and is important for both business and leisure travellers in both directions,” said Elizabeth Axtelius, Director Aviation Business at Swedavia.
“There is ever growing interest in Poland, and Warsaw is increasing in attractiveness. Similarly, the route meets an increased demand from Polish travellers who want to visit the expanding Stockholm region in business or as a leisure destination,” she continued.
Meanwhile Karl Sandlund, Executive Vice President Commercial at SAS said: “The links between the two regions are strong, and we are happy to be able to increase our offering to the large number of business travellers.”
SAS will be the second carrier to serve this route and passengers flying with the Scandinavian carrier will have the option of purchasing biofuel and thus helping cut carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80 % in order to reduce their climate impact. As part of SAS’s climate change adaptation, the carrier has also chosen to carbon-offset all tickets.
For many years, Swedavia has carried out ambitious sustainability work. All ten of its airports shall have zero emissions of fossil carbon dioxide from their own operations by 2020. Swedavia also works actively to promote the industry’s transition to bio fuel and has the goal that five per cent of all fuel used to refuel aircraft at Swedish airports shall be fossil-free by 2025.
