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Cimber Sterling’s bankruptcy: routes quickly taken over
After the announcement this morning that Denmark’s regional/low-cost hybrid airline Cimber Sterling has filed for bankruptcy, other airlines are quickly moving in to fill the void on selected routes.
At the end of this summer season, struggling Cimber Sterling was planning to suspend its low-cost operations and divest its 737s, which were a result of the purchase of parts of the bankrupt Sterling Airways in 2008. Instead, the airline was set to streamline its regional operations (using its fleet of CRJ200s, ATR42s and ATR72s) alongside its Swedish sister airline Skyways, wholly owned by Cypriot/Ukrainian Mansvell Enterprises (which also is the majority shareholder of Cimber Sterling).
27 routes were being operated
According to OAG data at the time of the airline’s bankruptcy, Cimber Sterling was operating a total of 27 routes of which 19 were from its main base at
Copenhagen. The busiest routes (in terms of weekly departures) were also its only six domestic routes, all from the country capital Copenhagen, to
Aalborg, Aarhus,
Billund, Bornholm, Karup and
Sønderborg. These services accounted for 60% of the airline’s total flights, and 55% of its weekly seat capacity. Cimber Sterling was the only carrier on four of these routes.
Source: OAG Max Online for w/c 7 May 2012
Cimber Sterling served 15 routes with at least daily flights. Both Norwegian and SAS provided competition on some of the routes while Czech Airlines (on Copenhagen-
Prague), Flybe (on Copenhagen-Stockholm Bromma) and Vueling (Copenhagen-Barcelona) were also competitors on some of the airline’s main international services. From Copenhagen the international destinations served (apart from those listed in the above graph) were Antalya, Catania, Chania, Naples,
Nice, Palma de Mallorca, and
Växjo.
Other carriers filling gaps quickly
Within hours, other airlines have been quick to announce their entry on selected routes. Danish Air Transport (DAT) has instantly commenced operations on two domestic routes today (Copenhagen to Sønderborg and Bornholm), while British Airways’ franchisee Sun-Air of Scandinavia will launch three international routes to Stockholm and
Oslo next week (detailed in the table below). At the moment, that leaves only two Danish airports without domestic flights; Billund and Karup. However, developments are fast and Flybe Nordic has reportedly also indicated intentions to announce five domestic Danish routes imminently.
[TABLE="class: post-table"]
[TR]
[TH]Airline
[/TH]
[TH]Origin
[/TH]
[TH]Destination
[/TH]
[TH]WF
[/TH]
[TH]A/c
[/TH]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Danish Air Transport (DAT)
[/TD]
[TD]Copenhagen (CPH)
[/TD]
[TD]Sønderborg (SGD)
[/TD]
[TD]22
[/TD]
[TD]ATR42
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Danish Air Transport (DAT)
[/TD]
[TD]Copenhagen (CPH)
[/TD]
[TD]Bornholm/Rønne (RNN)
[/TD]
[TD]38
[/TD]
[TD]ATR72
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Sun-Air of Scandinavia
[/TD]
[TD]Billund (BLL)
[/TD]
[TD]Oslo (OSL)
[/TD]
[TD]11
[/TD]
[TD]Do328?
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Sun-Air of Scandinavia
[/TD]
[TD]Billund (BLL)
[/TD]
[TD]Stockholm Bromma (BMA)
[/TD]
[TD]11
[/TD]
[TD]Do328?
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Sun-Air of Scandinavia
[/TD]
[TD]Aalborg (AAL)
[/TD]
[TD]Oslo (OSL)
[/TD]
[TD]11
[/TD]
[TD]Do328?
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
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Sulla CPH-FCO operavano oltre un terzo delle frequenze totali (2 daily). Vedremo se e chi tra SAS o Norwegian (AZ non la calcolo ahime') aumentera' di conseguenza.
