Oslo bounces back: Oslo is Norway's busiest airport and it recorded healthy traffic increase last year.

From: Airports International | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Penney, Chris | Copyright information

Oslo has finally recovered from the traffic lows experienced since the events of 9/11. Even before that though it had been coping with the failure of local low-cost carrier (LCC) Color Air, which set up shop at the airport in 1998 only to cease operations almost before they had started.

Since then, LCC traffic has come of age with regional turboprop operator Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norwegian) having successfully undergone a low-cost rebirth and now flies a fleet of 14 737...

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