Friday 30 October 2015

NORWAY: Norwegian, Six New Routes To The Canary Islands


How many people does it take to cut a route launch cake? In Tenerife North, which saw the start of two new Norwegian domestic Spanish routes from Madrid and Barcelona, it’s four.

However, 110 kilometres away in Gran Canaria it takes five (maybe the cake was harder?). The Canaries airport was celebrating three new Norwegian services – two domestic (Barcelona and Madrid) and one international (Karlstad in Sweden).

Norwegian used the first week of the W15/16 season to start six new routes from four of its bases, five of which were domestic Spanish routes.

The average sector length of these routes was 2,251 kilometres – with the longest route being the 4,126-kilometre Gran Canaria (LPA) to Karlstad (KSD) airport pair, while the shortest was the 1,482-kilometre link from Malaga to Tenerife South (TFS). The average weekly frequency of the new routes was four.

Ryanair provides competition on four of the six new routes, all with a matching or superior weekly frequency.

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