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Lapland to have the busiest winter season of this decade

Lapland to have the busiest winter season of this decade
Traveler Circle
November 3, 2016

Finavia’s airports in Lapland are preparing for the busy winter season. This winter, air traffic volumes are expected to the highest since 2007: It is expected that 500 charter and scheduled flights will arrive at Lapland in December.

More than 450 charter flights are expected in Lapland in December. Measured by the number of charter flights, the busiest airports of the month will be Kittilä (150) and Rovaniemi (140), as in the year before, where the number of charter flights is expected to remain at the previous year’s level. Instead, Ivalo is expected to grow significantly: the airport is expecting 93 charter flights, which is 36 more than last year. Enontekiö is expecting 58 and Kuusamo 11 charter flights.

The steady annual growth in the number of charter flights shows how attractive winter destination Lapland has become. Travel operators in Lapland have done a lot of work in developing travel products also for the summer season. The results are now starting to show: Dutch Voigt Travel will bring new charter flights from the Netherlands to Rovaniemi in summer 2017, says Joni Sundelin, senior vice president at Finavia.

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The first charter flight will land from London to Enontekiö on 25 November. Before Christmas as many as 30 charter flights a day will land in Lapland. The majority of tourists will come from Britain. In addition, there will be flights from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Lufthansa will double the number of flights on its Munich–Kittilä route, and it will open a new Franfurt–Ivalo route in December. For the winter season, Germania will open three routes from Germany and Switzerland to Lapland: Berlin–Rovaniemi, Düsseldorf–Kittilä and Zürich–Rovaniemi. This winter, Monarch will fly to Kittilä from Manchester and London, and Norwegian will fly to Rovaniemi from London.

Attracting new routes has been successful in Lapland. Finland is now trending in many ways: Lonely Planet selected Finland among the top 3 travel destinations in 2017. We have an excellent opportunity to offer such wonderful service experiences to travelers that they want to come back and also recommend Finland to their friends. In this, cooperation between travel operators plays a significant part, Sundelin says.

 

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