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Nov 04, 2016 (newstodate): As a pre-Christmas gift, Norwegian has been granted access to fly through Russian airspace from Oslo to Bangkok - but on this route only.
The access to Russian overflight will save Norwegian about one hours flying time and the corresponding fuel burn, also opening up for higher cargo loads on both directions.
Norwegian still has to fly longer hours on its other routes to Bangkok from Copenhagen and Stockholm, however.
The issue of opening up for more access to flights between Scandinavia and destinations in Asia through Russian airspace thus remains high on the agenda on meetings on air service agreements between Russian and Scandinavia, where Norway acts as the joint negotiation partner on behalf of all three Scandinavian countries.
No significant break-through was achieved in the latest round of aviation negotiations between Scandinavia and Russia, held in June 2016, but the parties will meet again for a renewed round of negotiations in February 2017.
-We discussed a wide range of issues at the meeting including those of special importance to Norwegian, but the negotiations did not reach a conclusion, says Ann-Kristin Hanssen, Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, Civil Aviation Section Senior Adviser.
Present with observer status at the negotiations in June 2016 were also representatives from Norwegian, SAS, TUI Flynordic and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.
The access to Russian overflight will save Norwegian about one hours flying time and the corresponding fuel burn, also opening up for higher cargo loads on both directions.
Norwegian still has to fly longer hours on its other routes to Bangkok from Copenhagen and Stockholm, however.
The issue of opening up for more access to flights between Scandinavia and destinations in Asia through Russian airspace thus remains high on the agenda on meetings on air service agreements between Russian and Scandinavia, where Norway acts as the joint negotiation partner on behalf of all three Scandinavian countries.
No significant break-through was achieved in the latest round of aviation negotiations between Scandinavia and Russia, held in June 2016, but the parties will meet again for a renewed round of negotiations in February 2017.
-We discussed a wide range of issues at the meeting including those of special importance to Norwegian, but the negotiations did not reach a conclusion, says Ann-Kristin Hanssen, Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, Civil Aviation Section Senior Adviser.
Present with observer status at the negotiations in June 2016 were also representatives from Norwegian, SAS, TUI Flynordic and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.