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Now you can dine on the wing of a Boeing 747 at the Jumbo Stay in Stockholm

Jumbo Stay (Jumbo Hostel) (Stockholm) is now offering the opportunity to stay and now dine on the wing of a Boeing 747 based at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport. The company is now advertising the following:

“Jumbo Stay is not just a hostel, its also an exciting place to go on an excursion for the whole family and for aviation enthusiasts. Non house guests are very welcome to have a look inside the airplane and to learn abouts its history. In our café you can purchase breakfast, coffee, cookies, ice cream, sandwiches and warm meals.

For the best view of the airplane and of the taxiway-runway, you will now have the possibility to walk along our left wing observation deck and experience the feeling of standing on top of a real Jumbo Jet’s wing.

Everybody is welcome to come and enjoy the view and to have a cup of coffee!”

The preserved Boeing 747-212B was originally delivered to Singapore Airlines as 9V-SQE (msn 21162) on March 30, 1976. However the airframe has also served with Pan Am (N727PA), Nationair (Canada) (C-FNXP), Garuda Indonesia, Cathay Pacific, Tower Air (N514DC and N620FF), Air Club International (C-GCIH), Transjet Airways (SE-RBN), Northeast Airlines (3D-NEE) and Jet Midwest (N981JM).

For more information: CLICK HERE

Jumbo Stay

Copyright Photos: Stefan Sjogren. The Jumbo now carries advertising. Visitors can now have breakfast, lunch or even dinner on the wing of Jumbo Hostel at Stockholm Arlanda. You can see a fence on the wing is now protecting visitors from falling off the Boeing 747-212B.

Below is a view of the wing walking installation. Tables and chairs are provided on the wing!

In the front of the plane there is an elevator and stair case connecting to the main and upper decks of the Jumbo with the ground level.

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SAS to add two long-haul routes and European expansion

Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) will expand its route network with two new long-haul routes. Oslo-New York will commence on March 27, 2011, while the Copenhagen-Shanghai route will start during the winter of 2011. In addition, SAS will also launch a number of new European routes, as well as significantly increase frequency across its key short haul routes by 150 new weekly departures.

The Oslo-New York route will be launched March 27 next year and serviced daily with an Airbus A330-300, offering 34 Business class seats, 35 Economy Extra and 195 Economy seats, whilst Copenhagen-Shanghai will start as five times weekly as of next winter, using an Airbus A340-300, which offers 46 Business class seats 28 Economy Extra and 171 Economy seats.

The additional European frequencies will be continuously introduced during spring 2011. Compared to same period last year, SAS will offer150 more departures a week on key routes.

In addition four new routes will open: Oslo-Munich, Oslo-Palma, Oslo-Split and Stockholm-Venice.

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren.

Norwegian Air Shuttle to open a Helsinki base

Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian.com) (Oslo) has announced it will open a new Finnish base at Helsinki’s Vantaa airport. At the same time it will also introduce two Finnish domestic routes and expand the current international destinations from two to eleven. Three Boeing 737 aircraft will be based in Helsinki.

As the second largest airline in Scandinavia and the third largest low lost airline in Europe, Norwegian serves a total of 238 routes to 93 destinations both domestic and international.

By entering the Finnish domestic market, Norwegian further increases its foothold as a major Nordic player. Today, the airline has domestic operations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The new Finnish routes include Helsinki-Oulu and Helsinki-Rovaniemi. Four daily flights will serve the Helsinki-Oulu route and one daily flight will operate between Helsinki and Rovaniemi. The first flight departs on March 31 2011.

Norwegian has since late April 2010 operated several daily flights between Helsinki and Stockholm and Helsinki and Oslo. In the spring of 2011 Norwegian will introduce nine new international destinations departing from Helsinki’s Vantaa airport: Copenhagen, Malaga, Nice, Crete (Chania), Rome, Barcelona, London Gatwick, Split and Alicante.

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren. The latest new Boeing delivery is this Boeing 737-8JP LN-NOX (msn 37818) with the tail of Christian Krohg. The new airliner was accepted on September 8 and prepares to land on runway 01R at Stockholm (Arlanda).

Scandinavian Airlines blames Icelandic volcanic ash for 2Q loss of $68 million

Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) has blamed the airspace closures due the recent Icelandic volcanic ash as the main reason for the second quarter loss of $68 million.

Read the full report from the Associated Press:

CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren. Boeing 737-783 LN-RNU (msn 34548) climbs away from runway 08 at Stockholm (Arlanda).

Qatar Airways to expand to 120 destinations in three years

Qatar Airways (Doha) is one of fastest growing airlines in the world. The flag carrier will be expanding its global network of destinations from 89 to 120 over the next three years, beginning with this week’s launch of new routes to Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires and new routes to Phuket, Hanoi, Budapest, Bucharest, Brussels and Nice beginning this fall.

Full press release:

CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren.

Iceland to close two airports tomorrow due to the ash

Iceland will close two airports on Friday for the first time, a week after ash from an Icelandic volcano forced the shutdown of airspace over much of Europe and stranded thousands of passengers around the world, the Icelandic aviation authority announced Thursday according to this CNN report.

The Keflavik International Airport and Reykjavík International Airport will be closed beginning early Friday morning, the aviation authority said, according to a statement on the Keflavik airport’s website.

Though the ash cloud originated in Iceland, the country’s airports have been spared from closure until now. Strong northwest winds had been blowing ash from the volcano, in the south of Iceland, out to sea and over Europe.

Two other Icelandic international airports, in Akureyri and Egilsstadir, will stay open to all air traffic, the aviation authority said. The ash cloud is not expected to reach those cities, which are in the north and east of the island nation.

Icelandair announced Thursday that trans-Atlantic passengers from the U.S. and Europe who would have stopped in Keflavik will be rerouted Friday via Glasgow, Scotland.

Icelandair said that passengers traveling to and from Iceland will have the option of being re-routed through the Akureyri airport, a four-hour drive from Reykjavík. The airline is arranging bus travel between Akureyri airport and the Reykjavík Bus Terminal.

Read the full report from CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/22/iceland.airport.closures/

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren. The ash is now also disrupting domestic air travel in Iceland. Flugfelag Islands’ (Air Iceland) Fokker F.27 Mk. 050 TF-JMM (msn 20214) prepares to land at Stockholm (Arlanda).

On a cold winter’s night in Stockholm on the Jumbo Hostel

Passengers (hostel guests) are resting well tonight inside the warm Boeing 747-212B 3D-NEE (msn 21162) now known as the Jumbo Hostel in Stockholm. The unique place to stay is shown this evening in freezing cold weather with snow on the fuselage. The Arlanda Airport (ARN) ATC Tower is pictured in the background. The Jumbo now has a new large blue advertisement on the fuselage for NCC (a construction company).

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren.

Adria Airways to return to Belgrade after nearly 20 years

Adria Airways (Ljubljana) is planning to reinstate the Ljubljana-Belgrade route in March 2010. This route has been vacant for almost 20 years due to political reasons.

News link:

www.b92.net//eng/news/business-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=12&dd=12&nav_id=63696

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren.

Arik Air threatens to move to another country

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren. Please click on photo for more photos.

Copyright Photo: Stefan Sjogren. Please click on photo for more photos.

Arik Air (Lagos) may have to change its “Wings of Nigeria” sub-titles if they follow through on their current threat to move to another country. Arik Air is upset about the Nigerian government’s order to move from the domestic terminal at Lagos to the international terminal.

News link:

allafrica.com/stories/200802210328.html

Malaysia to drop service to Stockholm, NY

 

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Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur) will suspend the Kuala Lumpur-Stockholm-Newark route on October 2. Malaysia has been serving EWR since 1998 and ARN since 2004.

 

News link:

www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsbusiness.php?id=423582