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Aug 12, 2013 (newstodate): Pending approval by the minority owners, the adjacent municipality, as well as the US anti-trust authorities, Sweden's Stockholm Skavsta Airport will have a new US owner - the US company ADC & HAS Airports Worldwide that will also acquire Belfast International Airport.
Owned by the Spanish company abertis since 2005, Skavsta Airport now has its focus on low-cost operators including Ryanair and Wizz Air and handled a total of 996,550 passengers during this year's H1, a drop by 8.1 percent, y-o-y.
Earlier thriving on air cargo, Skavsta Airport, however, laid down its cargo activities entirely from 2009, prompted by the general downturn in Sweden's air cargo industry through 2008, and dwindling hopes for any improvement in the profitability of its airfreight business.
Earlier, the airport handled some 15,000 tonnes of air cargo, 80 percent of which was trucked cargo, but the airport also experienced a rather stable volume of cargo charter operations, with 27 Boeing 747 and AN-124 ad-hoc freighter flights in 2007.
Now, industry sources claim that Skavsta may again see the return of cargo operations with the coming new American ownership that could reportedly bring in US freighter operations as well as Transatlantic passenger flights.
According to one source, negotiations concerning these plans are underway with American Airlines.
Owned by the Spanish company abertis since 2005, Skavsta Airport now has its focus on low-cost operators including Ryanair and Wizz Air and handled a total of 996,550 passengers during this year's H1, a drop by 8.1 percent, y-o-y.
Earlier thriving on air cargo, Skavsta Airport, however, laid down its cargo activities entirely from 2009, prompted by the general downturn in Sweden's air cargo industry through 2008, and dwindling hopes for any improvement in the profitability of its airfreight business.
Earlier, the airport handled some 15,000 tonnes of air cargo, 80 percent of which was trucked cargo, but the airport also experienced a rather stable volume of cargo charter operations, with 27 Boeing 747 and AN-124 ad-hoc freighter flights in 2007.
Now, industry sources claim that Skavsta may again see the return of cargo operations with the coming new American ownership that could reportedly bring in US freighter operations as well as Transatlantic passenger flights.
According to one source, negotiations concerning these plans are underway with American Airlines.