Vueling starts cheap flights between Barcelona and Helsinki

Spanish low fares airline Vueling starts cheap flights between Barcelona International Airport and Helsinki next spring. The first direct Vueling cheap flights will fly on Friday May 17th 2013 and there will be flights on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. Vueling has to compete on this route against Norwegian Air Shuttle that has strong market position in Finland. Last summer Ryanair tried Finland-Barcelona connection from Turku to Barcelona Girona airport but they withdraw from this route after only few months.

The first Helsinki-Barcelona and Barcelona-Helsinki flights are already on sale at Vueling.com.

Less cheap Helsinki-Oulu flights in Finland - Blue1 concentrates on Oulu-Stockholm and Oulu-Copenhagen flights

In Finland Helsinki-Oulu and Oulu-Helsinki flights are the most important domestic flights and this route has been operated by Finnair, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Blue1 (part of SAS Group). Price competition of Norwegian Air Shuttle has lowered the prices to 20€-40€/one way flight and today Blue1 told that they will stop operating Helsinki-Oulu and Oulu-Helsinki flights starting from October. Blue1 will concentrate on Oulu-Stockholm and Oulu-Copenhagen routes where they add more capacity.

Norwegian Air Shuttle big Autumn Sales start Tue 21.8 - Cheap flights Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki and many other cities

Norwegian Air Shuttle is a low fares airline with strong market position in Scandinavia. In Central Europe they market themselves as gateway to Scandinavia. Norwegian flies from many european metropoles to scandinavian capitals. They have flights from Paris, Rome, Barcelona, London and many other city to scandinavian capitals Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki.

Norwegian Air Shuttle is definetely a low fares airline but not as much oriented on cost savings as for example Ryanair. Just like EasyJet Norwegian Air Shuttle usually uses normal airports and avoids more distant airports that Ryanair uses (Milan Bergamo, Brussels Charleroi, London Luton/Stansted, Barcelona Girona etc.).

Norwegian Air Shuttle will have a big Autumn Sales campaign starting Tuesday August 21st. Sales prices are still a secret but it's very likely that there will be cheap flights between Scandinavian capitals and big european cities. If you are looking for cheap flights to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki or Oslo, it's worth visiting website of Norwegian Air Shuttle next week.

EasyJet cheap flights to Sweden

Unfortunately EasyJet doesn't offer many flights north from Copenhagen. Previously EasyJet flew to Finland and offered Helsinki-Paris and Helsinki-London flights but currently they fly only to capital of Sweden Stockholm. Only EasyJet cheap flight to Stockholm is at the moment from Geneva.

Nordic countries have been rather difficult market for big european low fares airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair. Long distances and small population perhaps make these nordic countries unattractive markets and local competitor Norwegian Air Shuttle has strong market position.