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Apr 27, 2022 (newstodate): In 2022, PostNord Sweden is back at Sweden's Jonkoping Airport - and now adding a new service.
Starting from January 31, 2022, PostNord Sweden has launched a nightly flight on weekdays from Stockholm Arlanda to Jonkoping Airport, operated by the Swiss carrier Zimex that is already operating flights on other Swedish routes for the postal company with ATR aircraft.
With effect from May 2, 2022, PostNord is now expanding the service to carry mail also on the return flight from Jonkoping to Stockholm Arlanda, so from then on mail is carried by PostNord's flights in both directions.
Until 2012, Jonkoping Airport thrived with Swedish postal volumes accounting for more than half of its cargo volumes - but from July 1, 2012, Post Sweden shifted from air to rail as part of its postal logistics.
This put an end to using Jonkoping Airport as a postal "mini-hub" since May 2007 with five weekly night operations between Jonkoping Airport and Gothenburg, Malmo, Sundsvall, Umeaa and Arlanda by Amapola and West Atlantic.
Today, Jonkoping Airport's cargo business mainly builds on FedEx, Time:Matters and DANX connecting the airport with Brussels, Karlsruhe, Oslo, Billund and Helsinki.
In this year's first quarter, the airport has been handling 728 tonnes of cargo, which is an increase by nine percent, y-o-y.