Oslo Airport (OSL) reopened to scheduled traffic at about 11:30 local time Sunday after a five-hour closure caused by Norway’s air traffic controller strike. Cancellations and delays continued into the evening as airlines worked through the disrupted schedule.
The reopening followed the five-hour shutdown Airways reported Saturday. The airport had stopped scheduled movements at 06:30 on August 23. Avinor Flysikring Director Jan-Gunnar Pedersen said the restart would be controlled and capacity would return gradually.
At 19:28 Central European Summer Time (CEST), an Airways count of Avinor’s official Oslo timetable found 139 scheduled movements marked canceled: 75 departures and 64 arrivals.
The count treats each flight-leg record as one movement. Live timetable totals can change as airlines revise their schedules.
Norwegian (DY) accounted for 64 of the canceled OSL movements in Avinor’s feed, while SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK) accounted for 47 and Widerøe (WF) for six. Norwegian separately told NRK that Sunday’s closure affected about 9,000 of its passengers, according to a Ritzau report.
Forty-eight of the cancellations had scheduled times at or after the 11:30 reopening. Forty-four were arrivals.
Sunday was already expected to be unusually busy. In a June traffic forecast, Avinor projected 95,521 passengers through OSL on August 23, placing it among the airport’s busiest days of the summer.
