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One winner of Eurovision 2024 may be revealed already: the airline flying probably the most to the Continent’s main cultural occasion.
Aviation income economics professional Oliver Ranson has recognized the carriers which can be touching down most regularly at Malmö, the Swedish metropolis internet hosting the tune contest, in addition to close by Copenhagen – a brief practice trip away.
In his evaluation, Mr Ranson writes: “Malmö has its personal airport however there aren’t so many flights. In run-up to the grand closing Wednesday to 3pm on Saturday there may have been 33 flights into Malmö, towards 1,125 into Copenhagen.
“Most Eurovision passengers travelling by air will fly into Copenhagen.
“I evaluated all the arrival flights at each airports from each nation collaborating in Eurovision this 12 months to ascertain the airways who’re most dedicated to the competition.
“There are different routes, however I doubt that [SAS Scandinavian Airlines] SK936 arriving from San Francisco or [Air China] CA877 from Beijing can be full of Eurovision followers.”
The official Eurovision airline, easyJet, reaches solely fifth place – sufficient to earn seven factors, beneath the scoring system adopted for the fiercely contested competitors.
Instantly above it’s arch-rival Ryanair, profitable eight factors for serving to to deposit individuals beside the Baltic.
The Lufthansa Group, together with the German nationwide airline, Austrian, Brussels Airways, Eurowings and Swiss is in third place and scores 9.
Second finest general: Norwegian, which has 20 flights coming in from the UK alone. It earns 10 factors.
High place, and douze factors, goes to SAS Scandinavian AIrlines – the “residence city” airline, which encompasses Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
In sixth and seventh locations are two different multi-national teams: Air France-KLM and IAG, proprietor of British Airways.
Mr Ransom additionally has reward for the one African airline within the chart: “Down within the diadora league (non-scoring a part of the desk), honourable point out should go to Ethiopian Airways, who function a wide-body.
“Their typical 315-seat 787 working fifth-freedom from Addis Ababa has been up-gauged to a 321-seat 777 for the Friday and Saturday solely.”
The author predicts the precise Eurovision winner can be Windows95man from Finland.
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