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Nov 29, 2019 (newstodate): The decision by Norwegian to stop all long-haul operations at Sweden's Stockholm Arlanda Airport is a serious blow to the airport's effort to build, or maintain, a long-haul route network.
   From March 2020, Norwegian is thus pulling out from the route between Stockholm and Fort Lauderdale, left without operator after the pull-out, and from the route between Stockholm and Oakland where it has been alone in providing services.
   Norwegian is also to pull out from the route Stockholm-New York, leaving SAS alone on the route.
   Norwegian is further to suspend services to Los Angeles, which is a serious blow as SAS is also moving its route, opened on March 13, 2016, to this destination away from Stockholm, operating instead from Copenhagen already from January 14, 2020.
   Norwegian is finally to withdraw from operating the route from Stockholm to Bangkok, served also by Thai Airways, and to Krabi.  
   Earlier, SAS moved its flights to Hong Kong from Stockholm to Copenhagen Airport from October 28, 2018.
   On the positive side, China Eastern launched services between Shanghai and Stockholm from June 16, 2018, Air China remains a long-time provider of flights to Beijing, Singapore Airlines is present on the route between Stockholm and Singapore via Moscow since May 2017, and Air India's three weekly flights from Delhi were launched on August 16, 2017.
    The pressure on Stockholm Airport's intercontinental flights is currently further boosted by a weak Swedish currency as well as Sweden's environmentalist-oriented introduction of a tax on airline tickets, but also the access from Southern Sweden to Copenhagen Airport in the south, and Finnair's extensive route network at Helsinki Airport to the east vying for passengers from Sweden.