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A list of all our featured airports in Norway can be found below, together with an overview of how to find cheap flights to Norway.
Featured Cities in Norway:
Aalesund Bergen Fagernes Floro Haugesund Kristiansand Kristiansund Oslo Any Stavanger Trondheim
Flights to Norway - Overview
Norway might not generally be associated with anything low-cost, but there are at least a few options for getting there reasonably cheaply. Flights from the UK to Norway tend to operate to the capital Oslo, or to the cities along the country’s North Sea coast such as Bergen, Haugesund, Stavanger and Trondheim. There are also numerous flights to Norway from Scotland, in particular from Aberdeen, which service the oil industry.
Local budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle, in addition to Ryanair, provides the majority of no-frills cheap flights to Norway. Until recently, the relatively small size of the market, combined with a limited summer tourist season and the perception of high prices, has kept all other budget airlines out, but last year saw Jet2 starting to operate cheap flights to Bergen from their newly established base in Newcastle.
Many of the flight routes between the UK and Norway are far more popular with Norwegians than they are with British passengers travelling in the other direction. This might be good inbound UK tourism, but it’s a shame that so many people are missing out on Norway's scenic wonders.
A note about cheap flights to Oslo
If you're planning a trip to the Norwegian capital, rather than a drive around the country, then we should add a little note of caution with regards to finding cheap flights to Oslo. Budget airline Ryanair operates to "Oslo” Torp airport, which is around 80 miles from the centre of Oslo. Even though the main Gardemoen airport in Oslo is still some 30 miles out of town, it does at least have the benefit of an extremely fast train service linking it with both the city centre of Oslo, and a number of other nearby towns. Arriving here can cut out the long journey from Torp, which is made more tedious by the numerous stretches of single carriageway on the main E18 road between the airport and Oslo.
Naturally, if you're living in one of the regional cities from which Ryanair operate flights to Oslo Torp, then this extra inconvenience is easily outweighed by the ability to take a direct flight, and the huge cost differential between flying with Ryanair and flying on a network carrier through another city. However, if you're looking for flights from London to Oslo, there is usually a reasonable amount of choice available without having to go through Torp.
Note that KLM also offer flights to Torp from Amsterdam, which are badged as flights to Oslo. If you are already suffering the inconvenience of taking a connecting flight, make sure you don't end up in Torp, unless that is closer to where you really want to be!
We hope that you have found this information about flights to Norway useful.
Mini guide to Norway
The most westerly - and perhaps the least discovered - country in Scandinavia, Norway benefits from the lack of preconceptions travelers bring to it. After years of ABBA records, IKEA catalogues and Lars von Trier movies, holidaymakers tend to know more or less what to expect from Sweden or Denmark, but Norway has the considerable advantage of almost always being a pleasant surprise. This landscape, after all, lends itself very easily to a sense of wonder and beguilement. Miles of undeveloped coastline look out over the forbidding Norwegian Sea, while the mainland boasts copious forestry and (to the north) tundra. A series of stunning, challenging mountains test all those who’ve packed their hiking boots during the summer months, and in the winter ski resorts such as Lillehammer prove especially popular.Norway is also handily placed for day or weekend trips across the water to Denmark, or over the border the country shares with Sweden. Its own cityscapes - most notably Oslo, the capital, and Trondheim - make a fair attempt at being just as bustling, lively and well-stocked as neighbouring Gothenburg or Copenhagen, but smaller, coastal destinations like Bergen and Stavangar are increasingly coming into favour amongst those who fancy rooms with a (sea) view.
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