SRA Warns Regional Air Routes In Sweden At Risk Following BRA-SAS Agreement

Several regional routes in Sweden are at threat of going away following Braathens Regional Airlines’ (BRA) decision to move trips from Stockholm Bromma Flight Terminal to Stockholm Arlanda Airport terminal following its collaboration with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), according to Swedish Regional Airports (SRA).

The company claims that the Swedish government’s decision to scrap a tax obligation on airline tickets from July 2025 will “partially enhance conditions,” but declares that the “flight pity” activity remains to affect residential air travel.

Nonetheless, SRA highlights that biofuels might be vital to maintaining regional courses– and asked for vacationers, organizations and government bodies to invest in biofuel. “We must spread the expertise that it is possible to fly fossil-free,” the company states.

It adds that this will impact access and regional development, highlighting broader difficulties in Swedish domestic air travel such as lowered flying and slow-moving post-pandemic recuperation.” The statement that BRA is leaving Bromma is an actual warning bell. If we do not begin flying again in Sweden, more routes will certainly go away, and the entire aeronautics market risks being ruined.

SRA recognizes that the cooperation is required for both BRA and SAS, offered their recent monetary battles, yet it alerts that BRA’s change far from smaller routes to concentrate on even more lucrative operations for SAS will certainly leave regional flight terminals vulnerable.

“The announcement that BRA is leaving Bromma is an actual caution bell. If we do not begin flying once more in Sweden, more courses will certainly vanish, and the entire aviation industry dangers being ruined. At the very same time, we have the options in our own hands. We can raise flying, and we can do it in a sustainable method.”

BRA and SAS introduced a new wet-lease collaboration on Sept. 17, through which BRA will certainly operate several aircraft in support of SAS, focusing on essential residential routes within Sweden. The shift from Bromma to Arlanda increases questions concerning the future of the former flight terminal.

It includes that this will certainly affect availability and regional growth, highlighting broader difficulties in Swedish domestic air travel such as minimized flying and slow-moving post-pandemic recuperation. Airline company capacity from and within Sweden amounts to concerning 2.1 million seats during September 2024, according to OAG Schedules Analyser information. This is down by 23% on 2019 levels.

“After the turn of the year, BRA will primarily phase out its whole course network to all our local flight terminals, even if some are re-emerging,” says a statement from SRA, which is had by the Swedish Regional Airports Organization, a cooperation between Sweden’s non-state-owned airports.

BRA accounts for regarding 95% of scheduled capacity from Bromma at present, according to OAG data. At some smaller regional flight terminals that are not operated by state-owned Swedavia, BRA has a capability share of 39% at Växjö, 100% at Kristianstad, 78% at Halmstad and 64% at Kalmar.