The number of direct flights between Scandinavia and Chinese city Shanghai is to increase from this week with SAS announcing a second weekly departure from Copenhagen.
Scandinavian airline SAS and the unions representing their pilots said early on Tuesday that they had reached an agreement which will bring to an end a two-week strike. But on Thursday, more than 300 flights were still cancelled.
Around 1,000 pilots with Scandinavian airline SAS could go on strike later this month after trade unions issued notice of a strike to begin in at least 14 days’ time.
Norway’s government is reported to be considering purchasing shares in Scandinavian airline SAS, which is currently part-owned by the Danish and Swedish states.
Scandinavian airline SAS announced on Wednesday it is to increase services to the United States, in a direct response to the end of the US travel ban on foreign tourists.
A direct overnight rail service between the Norwegian and Danish capitals has not operated since 2001, but authorities in Oslo are considering its return.
As the Covid-19 pandemic makes a resurgence our journalists around Europe explain the state of play in their country, the measures being in put in place and the mood of the public as concerns of further restrictions and lockdowns grow.
Norway's public health agency has called for quarantine to be mandatory for leisure travellers from two new regions in Denmark, after two new regions have reported rising case rates.
Finland’s government confirmed on Wednesday that it would reintroduce travel restrictions to a number of countries including Nordic nations Denmark and Norway.
An increase in coronavirus cases, including in Denmark’s second-largest city Aarhus, is likely to result in neighbouring Norway upscaling its travel guidelines.
People living in Denmark and Norway are more opposed to receiving tourists from neighbouring Sweden than they are to those from any other country in Europe -- underlining the blow Covid-19 has dealt to Scandinavian solidarity.
Norwegians have rushed to snap up ferry tickets over to Denmark, after the country dropped its demand that Nordic tourists book at least six days of accommodation.
As Denmark and Norway start lifting restrictions after a month of lockdown, are their coronavirus strategies shifting to the less restrictive approach their neighbour Sweden has had from the start?
Low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said on Tuesday it would cancel “approximately 3,000 flights” from mid-March to mid-June as the coronavirus outbreak hits travel.
Employees at hospitals in Norway and Denmark have been diagnosed with novel coronavirus, potentially exposing well over a hundred patients to infection.
