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Feb 28, 2019 (newstodate): A route to Japan is high on the wishing-list of Swedavia, owner and operator of 10 airports in Sweden including Stockholm Arlanda. The hopes for seeing a direct air-link between Stockholm and Tokyo have been aired repeatedly, as in 2005 when the management of Sweden's Stockholm Arlanda Airport visited Japan to lobby among Japanese airlines for the launch of an air-link to Scandinavia. Also in 2008, at a meeting in Tokyo between Sweden's minister of trade and Japan's vice minister of trade, the Swedish minster was told that the significant trade between the two markets could advance Sweden to the top of a list of 30+ countries seeking traffic rights to operate to Tokyo. Swedavia is now again raising hopes for attracting ANA to consider the opening of flights between Stockholm and Japan as the carrier is adding more European destinations to its network. ANA today operates flights on routes to Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, London, Dusseldorf and Brussels and has announced the opening of flights to Vienna in 2019. Today, Finnair and Japan Airlines are on-line between Helsinki and Japan, and SAS is offering flights on the route to Tokyo from Copenhagen Airport.