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Cruise ships flock to Stockholm

Stockholm has retained its position as Sweden's top destination for luxury cruise liners.

Published: 17 January 2008 17:38 CET
Cruise ships flock to Stockholm

This year, some 270 cruise ships are expected to dock in the capital, followed by 90 in Visby on the island of Gotland and 25 in Gothenburg.

Gothenburg has increased its share of the cruise travel pie. In 2000, just nine cruise ships pulled in to shore at the city’s harbour, according to a statement from Port of Göteborg AB.

Visby dropped in the same period to its current tally from an annual total of 150. The slide is explained by the local tourist association as a result of the fact that the island no longer provides access to the largest ships.

Stockholm welcomed 150 cruise ships to its shores in 1995. By 2004, this figure had grown to 260 and the city is continuing to attract large numbers of luxury liners.

“This is down to a combination of Stockholm profiling itself as a destination and major growth in the cruise business,” said David Schubert, marketing manager for Ports of Stockholm.

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Aarhus Airport to get easier connections with new code-sharing deal

Passengers travelling from Aarhus Airport using Scandinavian airline SAS are likely to find more convenient onwards connections from September.

Published: 16 July 2024 15:49 CEST
Aarhus Airport to get easier connections with new code-sharing deal

Convenient connections to European hub airports in Amsterdam and Paris will become easier to find from Aarhus Airport from September.

A code-sharing agreement between Scandinavian airline SAS and Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Delta Air Lines means that flight codes from those airlines – and more efficient connections via Copenhagen – will appear at Aarhus, the Jutland airport said in a press release on Tuesday.

The agreement gives Aarhus Airport passengers access to over 1,000 European destinations through so-called SkyTeam network.

For example, the code-sharing networks cuts journey times from Aarhus (via Copenhagen) to Amsterdam Schiphol to 2 hours 50 minutes, and to Paris CDG to 3 hours and 50 minutes.

“We are becoming more global. With only 30 minutes’ driving time from Aarhus, people in the region can save a huge amount of time flying from Aarhus Airport to an impressive number of Air France, KLM or SkyTeam destinations,” the airport’s director Lotta Sandsgaard said in the press release.

The agreement “has great significance for the international business environment in the Aarhus region and in a tourism perspective for a booming sector by attracting travellers from European and overseas markets,” she added.

The SK flight code, one of the codes which will be used at Aarhus under the agreement, is operated by Air France and KLM from their respective hubs. This means destinations including Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Porto, Newcastle, Southampton, Cardiff, Venice and Naples as well as Marrakesh, Tunis and Casablanca in North Africa can be booked.

Destinations including Las Vegas, Denver, Seattle, Orlando, Cincinnati, Montreal, Vancouver, Detroit and Salt Lake City and more can also be booked with Air France and KLM to and from Aarhus Airport.

Travellers in Aarhus will also see new connections between SAS and Delta-operated flights to dozens of destinations across the USA and Canada via Delta’s North American network. The deal means they can travel to these destinations with one check-in at Aarhus Airport’s SAS counter.

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