The airspace over the whole of southern Norway is closed on Thursday morning. The closure is temporary and is due to a technical error, says Avinor.
The closure currently applies until 11 o’clock, Norwegian informs TV 2.
– We have been told that the airspace will be closed until 11 in any case. This means that we will have to cancel a number of flights, says communications advisor Eline Hyggen Skari at Norwegian to TV 2.
– Our team is in the process of informing our customers who receive a message from us via text message. If there are canceled flights, customers can either cancel and get their money back, or they can book a new flight. The airspace over the whole of southern Norway is closed on Thursday morning. The closure is temporary and is due to a technical error, says Avinor.
43 airports
– Due to a technical error at the Oslo Control Center, the airspace over southern Norway is temporarily closed. Significant delays are expected. Duration is currently unknown. We encourage all travelers to refer to the information they receive from their airline. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes. This is all the information we have at the moment. We will come back with more information, says a message issued by Avinor just before 07:00.
Avinor is responsible for 43 state-owned airports, and the air traffic control service for civil and military aviation in Norway.
At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, the last flights took off at 06.00. It was SAS SK 4675 to Alicante and SAS SK1461 to Copenhagen, the overview on avinor.no shows.
There were several planes in the airspace in southern Norway when the news came from Avinor. These planes will probably be allowed to land, says operations manager Øystein Skaar at Bergen Airport Flesland to Bergensavisen.
– Even if the airspace is closed, these will probably be allowed to land as normal, says Skaar.
– And then no more planes will take off until the situation is clarified, he says.
Avinor asks passengers to travel to the airport.
– Do as normal if you do not receive any other message from your airline, says Avinor’s communications manager Cathrine Fuglesang Famholt.
