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Aug 14, 2009 (newstodate): Representatives from Sweden's Gothenburg Landvetter Airport will attend this year's Routes in Beijing with high aspirations and confidence.
-Our meeting planner is already full, and we are keen to seek operators for new direct routes out of Gothenburg Landvetter Airport, says Lena Stavmo, Gothenburg Landvetter Airport Route & Aviation Development Manager.
-As any other airport we have of course been affected by the current decline in business travels, and we have not yet found a successor among low-cost carriers to fill the void left by the Sterling demise, but we are in negotiations with a few potential operators and hope to see the revival of flights to several leisure destinations again from this winter.
-So far into 2009, maybe our single largest success has been the launch by Turkish Airlines of flights thrice-weekly between Gothenburg and Istanbul.
-Thanks to the strong route network of Turkish Airlines, passengers from Gothenburg may transfer to flights for destinations like Bangkok, and the opening of the carrier's planned flights to Australia will further bolster the importance of this route.
-We are also happy to see the operations by MCA from Gothenburg to Beirut, Lebanon, and to Erbil and Sulimaniya in Kurdish Iraq that appeal strongly to the large ethnic populations from these countries residing in Sweden.
-Furthermore the Croatian carrier Croatia Airlines has selected Gothenburg for two weekly services to Zagreb, and all this contributes to a growing optimism at our airport, says Ms Stavmo.
Through January-July, 2009, Gothenburg Landvetter Airport saw its passenger volumes down by 16 percent, to a total of 304,630.
-Our meeting planner is already full, and we are keen to seek operators for new direct routes out of Gothenburg Landvetter Airport, says Lena Stavmo, Gothenburg Landvetter Airport Route & Aviation Development Manager.
-As any other airport we have of course been affected by the current decline in business travels, and we have not yet found a successor among low-cost carriers to fill the void left by the Sterling demise, but we are in negotiations with a few potential operators and hope to see the revival of flights to several leisure destinations again from this winter.
-So far into 2009, maybe our single largest success has been the launch by Turkish Airlines of flights thrice-weekly between Gothenburg and Istanbul.
-Thanks to the strong route network of Turkish Airlines, passengers from Gothenburg may transfer to flights for destinations like Bangkok, and the opening of the carrier's planned flights to Australia will further bolster the importance of this route.
-We are also happy to see the operations by MCA from Gothenburg to Beirut, Lebanon, and to Erbil and Sulimaniya in Kurdish Iraq that appeal strongly to the large ethnic populations from these countries residing in Sweden.
-Furthermore the Croatian carrier Croatia Airlines has selected Gothenburg for two weekly services to Zagreb, and all this contributes to a growing optimism at our airport, says Ms Stavmo.
Through January-July, 2009, Gothenburg Landvetter Airport saw its passenger volumes down by 16 percent, to a total of 304,630.