https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Lawyer Staffan Edh has resigned from law firm Hamilton in Gothenburg following speculation about his role on the Fly Me affair. https://www.thelocal.se/20070323/6780 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:36:00 +0100 6780 The administrator for bankrupt Swedish airline FlyMe Sweden has said he could be close to finding a new owner for the company. https://www.thelocal.se/20070321/6759 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:54:00 +0100 6759 Just two days before a press conference at which Fly Me Europe intends to present its accounts, accounting firm ÖhrlingsPricewaterhouseCoopers AB has severed its connections with the troubled airline company. https://www.thelocal.se/20070319/6733 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:51:00 +0100 6733 The board of Fly Me Europe is to call a shareholders meeting to decide on a write-down of share capital after subsidiary company Fly Me Sweden filed for bankruptcy last week. https://www.thelocal.se/20070309/6646 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:04:00 +0100 6646 Collapsed Swedish budget airline FlyMe could soon have new owners, receivers for the company say. Meanwhile, the fall of the company is being investigated by prosecutors. https://www.thelocal.se/20070305/6597 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:06:00 +0100 6597 Norwegian financier Christen Ager-Hansen, through his company Cognititon, is the new largest shareholder in Swedish low-cost airline FlyMe. https://www.thelocal.se/20060927/5043 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:51:00 +0200 5043 Swedish airline FlyMe's proposed acquisition of British charter airline Astraeus, a deal reported to have been sealed at the beginning of this month, will not now take place. https://www.thelocal.se/20060925/5015 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:17:00 +0200 5015 Swedish airline FlyMe has taken control of British charter airline Astraeus, in a deal that will see the number of planes in FlyMe's fleet grow from five to fifteen aircraft. https://www.thelocal.se/20060901/4759 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:37:00 +0200 4759 Airline FlyMe has said it plans to fund further expansion through a share issue to investors, which it says will raise 1.3 billion kronor. https://www.thelocal.se/20060802/4500 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:09:00 +0200 4500 Security was increased at Stockholm Skavsta airport on Tuesday after police received a ‘serious threat’ from an anonymous source. https://www.thelocal.se/20060802/4495 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:54:00 +0200 4495 A Swedish plane has made an emergency landing in Romania, leaving 70 Swedish tourists stuck in Bucharest. https://www.thelocal.se/20060730/4467 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:37:00 +0200 4467 Low price airline Fly Me reported a net loss of 63.4 million kronor for the first quarter in its report, which was made public on Wednesday. The company’s net loss was 24.3 million kronor at this time last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20060531/3951 Wed, 31 May 2006 14:02:00 +0200 3951 Swedish low-price airline Fly Me’s proposed partner, Sterling, is still losing money. https://www.thelocal.se/20060519/3849 Fri, 19 May 2006 13:49:00 +0200 3849 Swedish budget airline FlyMe is to buy its Copenhagen-based competitor Sterling for around 2 billion kronor, according to the paper Finansavisen in Norway. https://www.thelocal.se/20060511/3778 Thu, 11 May 2006 12:45:00 +0200 3778 Swedish budget airline FlyMe Europe said on Monday that it had agreed to gradually take over Lithuania's recently privatized Lithuanian Airlines, or flyLAL, for an undisclosed amount. https://www.thelocal.se/20060213/3041-2 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:57:00 +0100 3041-2 London-registered low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Wednesday it would offer flights from Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas to Malmö in Sweden and the Danish capital Copenhagen. https://www.thelocal.se/20060111/2844-2 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:54:00 +0100 2844-2 Sweden’s airline industry is booming, with passenger traffic on Scandinavian airline SAS increasing 15.5 percent in December. https://www.thelocal.se/20060110/2829-2 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:28:00 +0100 2829-2 Growing global fear of the deadly bird flu could pose a threat to the airline industry's bottom line, a Swedish industry lobby group said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20051125/2575-2 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:05:00 +0100 2575-2 Swedish airline FlyMe is launching direct flights from its Gothenburg base to twelve new destinations in Europe, as part of a major expansion plan that could include buying other airlines. https://www.thelocal.se/20051110/2469-2 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:02:00 +0100 2469-2 Figures just released from SAS and its competitor Fly Me show an improvement in the fortunes of both companies. With relatively full planes and improved turnover, the companies performed better than expected. https://www.thelocal.se/20051107/2439-2 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:58:00 +0100 2439-2