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OCTOBER'S launch of a Humberside to Denmark route opens up Scandinavia and much of northern Europe to business customers, without travel impacting on the working day.
There is a major focus on what the Copenhagen link can do for the area with people coming to work in the energy sector. And return flights offer huge opportunities, too, according to Mr Litten.
He said: "Scandinavia is home to the world's leading designers and engineers for offshore wind power, and they made their money out of oil and gas, which is vital to this region, too. The Dong investment (Westermost Rough wind farm, going into construction now) may have been a catalyst, but there is no one thing that has influenced them. It is the vibrancy of the area, and that is a positive."
Referring to extensive meetings with the airline that have led to the route being secured, a coup with a nation's flag bearer, Mr Litten said: "Their belief is that this is the next Aberdeen, and they have made this investment in spite of the fact that Siemens, Able or anyone else, haven't built a factory to build a turbine to put into the North Sea. There are 40-odd Scandinavian-based companies locally, and in 2011 there were 172,000 individual passenger journeys to Scandinavia from an area within a one-hour drive of the airport."
With a flight just over 90 minutes, and a take-off of 7.15pm, Mr Litten makes the point that passengers can arrive after one full working day, check-in and fly, arriving in Denmark before 9pm on UK time.
Connections also open up Danish locations Aarhus, Billund and Aalborg; Turku and Helsinki in Finland; Gothenburg and Stockholm in Sweden; Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger in Norway; Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw in Poland and Palanga, Lithuania, as easy-reach destinations before midnight.
The Polish attraction is such that marketing information is being translated to appeal to the strong communities in the region.
More could be on the horizon, too, on the back of the Scandinavian Airlines model, linking with western Europe.
"The Independent Transport Commission has talked about Heathrow as a hub, but also a need to push capacity out to the regions. We have taken that on board and have been speaking to other scheduled airlines. If we get German companies bringing German people in to the area, why not talk to German airlines? There is a lot of expertise in western Europe, and do they want to fly across and then have to spend five hours in a car? They could be at site within an hour of touching down here." Reported by This is 18 hours ago.
OCTOBER'S launch of a Humberside to Denmark route opens up Scandinavia and much of northern Europe to business customers, without travel impacting on the working day.
There is a major focus on what the Copenhagen link can do for the area with people coming to work in the energy sector. And return flights offer huge opportunities, too, according to Mr Litten.
He said: "Scandinavia is home to the world's leading designers and engineers for offshore wind power, and they made their money out of oil and gas, which is vital to this region, too. The Dong investment (Westermost Rough wind farm, going into construction now) may have been a catalyst, but there is no one thing that has influenced them. It is the vibrancy of the area, and that is a positive."
Referring to extensive meetings with the airline that have led to the route being secured, a coup with a nation's flag bearer, Mr Litten said: "Their belief is that this is the next Aberdeen, and they have made this investment in spite of the fact that Siemens, Able or anyone else, haven't built a factory to build a turbine to put into the North Sea. There are 40-odd Scandinavian-based companies locally, and in 2011 there were 172,000 individual passenger journeys to Scandinavia from an area within a one-hour drive of the airport."
With a flight just over 90 minutes, and a take-off of 7.15pm, Mr Litten makes the point that passengers can arrive after one full working day, check-in and fly, arriving in Denmark before 9pm on UK time.
Connections also open up Danish locations Aarhus, Billund and Aalborg; Turku and Helsinki in Finland; Gothenburg and Stockholm in Sweden; Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger in Norway; Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw in Poland and Palanga, Lithuania, as easy-reach destinations before midnight.
The Polish attraction is such that marketing information is being translated to appeal to the strong communities in the region.
More could be on the horizon, too, on the back of the Scandinavian Airlines model, linking with western Europe.
"The Independent Transport Commission has talked about Heathrow as a hub, but also a need to push capacity out to the regions. We have taken that on board and have been speaking to other scheduled airlines. If we get German companies bringing German people in to the area, why not talk to German airlines? There is a lot of expertise in western Europe, and do they want to fly across and then have to spend five hours in a car? They could be at site within an hour of touching down here." Reported by This is 18 hours ago.