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Jan 23, 2024 (newstodate): Finally, hopes for seeing the launch of services by All Nippon Airlines, ANA, to Sweden's Stockholm Airport will come true this year.
   According to Nikkei Asia, the carrier will launch flights to three new European destinations in 2024: Istanbul, Milan - and Stockholm.
   Already in November 2019, the Japanese carrier ANA, member of the Star Alliance, announced its decision to launch direct non-stop services beginning summer 2020 between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Stockholm Airport, ending 30 years of absence of direct flights, long sought-after, between Sweden and Japan.
    The airline was to perform its first flight on the route on June 6, 2020, with three weekly rotations from June 21, 2020, increasing to daily operations from July 20, with Boeing 787-8 aircraft  - but then came the coronavirus.
   According to Nikkei, the route to Stockholm is slated to start by the latter part of this year.
   Member of the Star Alliance, ANA will benefit from SAS' change away from Star Alliance to SkyTeam, which opens up for a new competitive environment in the Scandinavian markets. 

But it remains to be seen how ANA will be connected to feed traffic to and from other Scandinavian airports after losing its Star Alliance partner SAS..