11.2.2009
New routes and new airline at Copenhagen Airport

Yet another new airline has announced its arrival at Copenhagen Airport. BH Airlines will launch flights between Sarajevo and Copenhagen and will be operating two weekly flights from late March. Moreover, Transavia, owned by KLM-Air France, has announced the opening of three new routes out of Copenhagen.

BH Airlines, which is based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is a new airline at Copenhagen Airport. From the launch of its summer programme in late March, the airline will offer two weekly frequencies between Copenhagen and Sarajevo, more specifically on Mondays and Thursdays.

“There is a great potential for traffic between Scandinavia and the Balkans. We have assessed the potential together with BH Airlines, and the airline saw an obvious opportunity for expanding its European route network by adding this route to Copenhagen,” said Carsten Nørland, Aviation Director at Copenhagen Airports A/S.

So far, BH Airlines has mainly focused on routes within the Balkans and to Turkey, Switzerland and Germany, but the airline has begun to expand its route network after Turkish Airlines acquired 49% of the company’s shares from the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina in December 2008. The route to Copenhagen will be one of the first of the new routes to be opened by the airline.

Transavia expands
Transavia is also going to open new routes in its summer programme. The Dutch-French airline will open new routes to the following three destinations: Naples, Montpellier and Pisa, bringing the number of routes operated by the airline out of Copenhagen Airport to fifteen.

The route to Naples will have three weekly departures and will open on 21 April. The routes to Montpellier and Pisa will open a month later and will have two weekly frequencies.