Originally Posted by
Jamie2k9
What was more random is FR started off in Vatry with Oslo and Stockholm if I am not mistaking.
It's not really random - the local authorities and public bodies are (understandably) more interested in providing support funding for routes if they think those routes will bring tourists into the area and contribute to the local economy, and that was the idea with the Scandinavian routes.
Subsidising a route that will mainly fly guest workers home for holidays with their families, and local people out of the country to spend their money somewhere else, is a tougher budgetary case.