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With the announcement of LBA/LTN/CPH/OSL - Skvasta - Lahore/Bangkok as posted on other airport only threads can anyone answer any of these questions?
As well as connections from OSL, CPH, LBA and LTN to Lahore are their connections to Bangkok?
Can you fly locally from LTN, LBA, CPH and OSL to Skavsta?
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As well as connections from OSL, CPH, LBA and LTN to Lahore are their connections to Bangkok?
Can you fly locally from LTN, LBA, CPH and OSL to Skavsta?
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Has there actually been an announcement of these services as such (in terms of a press release) ?
I have not seen anything released by either LBA or LTN airport authorities or SweFly themselves, which is a little worrying bearing in mind LTN is supposed to start in little over 2 weeks time.
All I have seen is the timetable published on the SweFly website in the last days. Any further information is greatfully welcome!
I have not seen anything released by either LBA or LTN airport authorities or SweFly themselves, which is a little worrying bearing in mind LTN is supposed to start in little over 2 weeks time.
All I have seen is the timetable published on the SweFly website in the last days. Any further information is greatfully welcome!
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There you go an MD-80, but will it happen?
It seems a long way off course for a flight to route UK-Sweden-Pakistan, so the fares on offer must be blisteringly cheap to entice folk to use it and Lahore is hardly a tourist hot spot?
It seems a long way off course for a flight to route UK-Sweden-Pakistan, so the fares on offer must be blisteringly cheap to entice folk to use it and Lahore is hardly a tourist hot spot?
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Taken from the newsgroup free.uk.airports-luton which can also be accessed via http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ts-luton?hl=en
Swe Fly (WV/Stockholm Skavsta) will launch up to six times weekly
B767-200ER service from Stockholm Skavsta to Lahore on May 15. It
will operat three weekly feeder services with a MD-80 from
Leeds/Bradford and London Luton to Stockholm Skavsta as well as
three weekly Fokker 50 services from Copenhagen and Oslo Gardermoen
to Stockholm Skavsta. It will add a second B767-200ER in December
when it will launch a daily flight from Stockholm Skavsta to
Bangkok. In other news, it will however give up its
Kalmar-Växjö-Copenhagen route on April 29. It is reportedly planning
to add a new route from Stockholm Skavsta to Dhaka in 2006.
Swe Fly (WV/Stockholm Skavsta) will launch up to six times weekly
B767-200ER service from Stockholm Skavsta to Lahore on May 15. It
will operat three weekly feeder services with a MD-80 from
Leeds/Bradford and London Luton to Stockholm Skavsta as well as
three weekly Fokker 50 services from Copenhagen and Oslo Gardermoen
to Stockholm Skavsta. It will add a second B767-200ER in December
when it will launch a daily flight from Stockholm Skavsta to
Bangkok. In other news, it will however give up its
Kalmar-Växjö-Copenhagen route on April 29. It is reportedly planning
to add a new route from Stockholm Skavsta to Dhaka in 2006.
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Ever tried to convince a Luton taxi driver that the fare was too much?
How will a Swedish airline make known amongst the local Pakistanti community within Luton and Bradford, that there is route from thier local airport, to a runway somewhere in Pakistan which requires a plane change in Scandinavia?
BLIMEY, SweFly must have really cheap fares and employ folk to spead the news rapidly?
Chances for it to work........ADVERTISING!!!!!!!!!
7 weeks to go until the first flight and the only local news relating to the SweFly operation is here (Hardly local). Unfortunately, our Asian friends who might actually book, are not regular visitors to this site.....BUT then again, what does a bear know?
How will a Swedish airline make known amongst the local Pakistanti community within Luton and Bradford, that there is route from thier local airport, to a runway somewhere in Pakistan which requires a plane change in Scandinavia?
BLIMEY, SweFly must have really cheap fares and employ folk to spead the news rapidly?
Chances for it to work........ADVERTISING!!!!!!!!!
7 weeks to go until the first flight and the only local news relating to the SweFly operation is here (Hardly local). Unfortunately, our Asian friends who might actually book, are not regular visitors to this site.....BUT then again, what does a bear know?
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Don't know about Luton, but certainly in Bradford and its environs the booking process for travel to Pakistan is not really a done by walking into Lunn Poly or booking on the internet. Family owned specialsit travel agencies are where much of the business is done.
I think its probably likely that Swefly have got UK connections with these sort of travel agencies and the hard work will be going on behind the scenes. Don't expect to see billboards and press ads for this.
oh, and great circle routing from LBA to LHE practically takes you over Stockholm anyway. Think its about a 90nm deviation.
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I think its probably likely that Swefly have got UK connections with these sort of travel agencies and the hard work will be going on behind the scenes. Don't expect to see billboards and press ads for this.
oh, and great circle routing from LBA to LHE practically takes you over Stockholm anyway. Think its about a 90nm deviation.
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Not a lot different from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from BHX and they have been coining it in. Their flights often involve an aircraft change.
The secret is to get into the local Asian travel agents and it works.
Centre cities
Perhaps a little known Slovak airline routing via Bratislava would have been a better example. They still carry exellent loads.
Centre cities
The secret is to get into the local Asian travel agents and it works.
Centre cities
Perhaps a little known Slovak airline routing via Bratislava would have been a better example. They still carry exellent loads.
Centre cities
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SweFly have issued a press release regarding the granting of their landing rights by the Pakistan authorities for the forthcoming Lahore services.
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Strange one this, according to LTN airport’s website the inbound flights are operated by a 767 until June 16th when an MD80 takes over but all outbound flights are operated by MD80’s. The latest rumour is in fact that a 767 will operated out of Luton and that the start date has been shifted from May 15th to May 19th.
What is a little worrying is that if you do an Internet search for cheap flights to Lahore you won’t find this service.
What is a little worrying is that if you do an Internet search for cheap flights to Lahore you won’t find this service.
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Fried_Chicken - what's your point?
The service isn't scheduled to start until 16th May so for all you know, it might have been someone simply testing the display system.
The service isn't scheduled to start until 16th May so for all you know, it might have been someone simply testing the display system.
