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Old 04-23-2017, 03:33 PM
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US pre-clearance may create long-haul narrowbody gap at Stockholm

23 April, 2017
| SOURCE: Flightglobal Pro
| BY: Oliver Clark
| Belfast


Gaining a US pre-clearance facility could pave the way for Stockholm Arlanda airport to gain new narrowbody-operated services to the USA, Swedavia's route development manager Ole Wieth Christensen believes.

Stockholm Arlanda already has transatlantic flights, but speaking at the Routes Europe conference in Belfast today, Christensen says that once the new pre-clearance facility is “up and running” it will make it "much easier" for an airline like Norwegian to start Boeing 737 Max or Airbus A321LR-operated flights to the USA from the Swedish capital.

"Now with Norwegian starting with the new strategy of flying into more smaller places, we see that as an optimal fit that they can transfer their passengers, clear them in Stockholm and then go to the smaller domestic kind of airports in the USA," says Christensen.

He says that the A321LR "might be a more suitable aircraft because it seems that it has a little longer range then the [737] Max".

Stockholm is one of 10 airports that have been shortlisted for a pre-clearance facility and the airport’s operator Swedavia recently signed an agreement with the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency covering US border controls at the Swedish gateway.

Christensen expects the facility to be "up and running" by 2019. The next stage is for the Swedish parliament to ratify the agreement with the CBP. Christensen says it would be "very surprising if we didn’t get it".
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