After Germany, an other wave of reductions has been noticed in Sweden (by
thelocal.se)
Irish low cost airline Ryanair has cut several routes from Swedish airports, including Gothenburg, Nyköping and Västerås.
Karlstad, Växjö , Kalmar and Ängelholm are locations also hit by the slew of withdrawals.
According to a report in the local Värmlands Folkblad daily the only Swedish airports to escape the cut-backs are Malmö, Jönköping and Skellefteå.
The airline will leave Karlstad airport entirely after cutting its route to Barcelona.
"Very sad , but we hope they can come back in 2015," airport manager Peter Landmark told Värmlands Folkblad.
Some 23 flights a week will be removed from schedules out of Skavsta Airport in Nyköping, the airline's main gateway to Stockholm. Six major destinations including Frankfurt, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin disappear completely, according to local media reports.
"It is very sad news for all of us. We are trying to manage it as best we can," said Skavsta CEO Dot Gade Kulovuori to Södermanlands Nyheter.
As we see, the question asked here a month ago...
how many cuts in the already announced 2014 summer timetable must be made to accommodate all these new routes?
...got answered already. Now the question is: were these routes indeed so under-performing and will the new Italian, Belgian and Irish routes close to or equal the profitability of those slashed ones? If it's the profitability issue addressed here, it's OK, even if some loyal partners are being stood up right now. However, if the move was just one more politically-accentuated game on the European chess board of airports, it will not do much good, I'm afraid.