Sad news about Stavanger. It's true that passenger numbers have been falling for quite some time, but I'm confused as to why. I flew NCL-OSL and then BGO-SVG-NCL in 1998 on Braathens and both flights were full, and it didn't appear to be anywhere near all oil industry types either. A lot of Norwegians used to come across to the North East for shopping trips and holidays. Maybe the range of cheap flights between Norway and Spain / Portugal etc has dented the demand? I'm pretty sure that at one time the only UK cities with scheduled links to Western Norway were London (not even sure London always had links to BGO & SVG to be honest?), Newcastle and Aberdeen. The links between the North-East and Scandinavia used to be one of the things that made NCL a bit unique. Now it seems that all airport destination boards are becoming identikits of each other. Or maybe I'm getting older and more wistful...