The Norwegian Air Travel Survey 2017

This report presents results from the Norwegian Air Travel Survey 2017. Information from 147,000 passengers is analyzed. Domestic traffic reached 15,6 million journeys in 2017. Results show that domestic leisure traffic increased by 8 percent, while business traffic was reduced by 2 percent from 2015 to 2017. 56 percent of domestic traffic is now leisure traffic. The amount of foreigners on domestic routes increased by 53 percent and the share of foreigners on domestic flights increased from 9 percent in 2015 to 13 percent in 2017. International scheduled traffic at Avinors airports increased from 17,9 million journeys in 2015 to 19,8 million in 2017. Most of the growth, 73 per cent, comes from passengers resident outside Norway travelling through Oslo airport. Oslo also increased its share of hub traffic between regional airports and international destinations from 51 percent in 2015 to 58 percent in 2017. The traffic of Norwegians on holiday and leisure trips with scheduled flights abroad increased by 560,000 passengers (eight per cent) from 2015 to 2017.