Following yesterday's announcement that it is free to travel within Sweden from 13 June, SAS opens up for domestic flights. Already on June 18, travelers can fly to Visby. But Gotland is far from alone about receiving passengers from the Swedish mainland.

- We see that Östersund and Visby are two of the routes where there has been a demand. We will evaluate demand in the future and act accordingly, Freja Annamatz tells TT.

At the end of June, the company is also starting to operate several routes to Mediterranean destinations - despite the Foreign Ministry's advice.

"Is there a demand"

Among the destinations that will be served are Palma in Spain, Nice in France, and Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece.

Already tomorrow, Saturday, you can fly from Arlanda to Athens.

- We see that there is a demand for travel to a number of Mediterranean destinations. You have family or double accommodation and therefore find a need to be able to travel to Spain, France and Greece.

- We assume that everyone follows the advice that comes from Swedish Foreign Ministry and the rules in other countries, she continues.

The traffic level will continue to be very low compared to a normal summer and each destination will be serviced once a week.

Ovis's price picture

The layoffs continue, but as more flights depart, more will work more, according to Annamatz.

- We go from having almost all the planes parked, to soon having 30 machines in the air.

The price picture is still uncertain, according to Annamatz.

- It is the customers' willingness to pay that determines the price picture. Competition in the aviation market remains very tough, but we have no forecast on the price picture.

Passenger numbers fell

At the same time as SAS announces that it will resume more routes in June than previously announced, the fact will be for air traffic in May.

Due to the covid-19 pandemic and extensive travel restrictions, a small part of the airline's normal traffic has been in operation.

Calculated in the number of passengers, traffic fell by almost 94 percent in May, to 158,000 passengers.

The cabin factor, a measure of how well-filled aircraft fell at the same time by 15.6 percentage points to 55.7 percent