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Sep 04, 2019 (newstodate): SAS' decision, announced yesterday, of moving the route to Los Angeles from Stockholm to Copenhagen dealt another blow to the Swedish capital airport's hopes for boosting its intercontinental network.
   The route from Stockholm to Los Angeles, opened on March 13, 2016, will be moved instead to Copenhagen Airport from January 14, 2020, leaving Stockholm with only seasonal connections by Norwegian to Los Angeles.
   Earlier, SAS dealt a similar blow to Stockholm by moving the route opened on September 10, 2015, from Stockholm to Hong Kong, to Copenhagen 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.