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Still no Ryanair Edinburgh - Rygge (Oslo) flights up yet. Heading to Rjukan again - February. Don't remember them being this late? Anyone know anything?

In reply to gilliesp:

Don t think Ryanair fly to Oslo from Edinburgh anymore... Norway imposed new taxes and this led to Ryanair cancelling some routes but best to contact them direct for the latest info.

In reply to gilliesp:

Looks like the only direct option these days is Norwegian to Gardermoen on Tuesdays, Thursday and Sundays. Have a look at skyscanner.net to see the various other options.

We used Norwegian when we went to Rjukan a few years ago. ISTR that we found the costs pretty closely matched cf Ryanair once we'd factored in the cost of putting winter gear for a week for each of us in the hold. The timing of the Norwegian outbound flights looks better now than it was when we went, though the return flight is at sparrow's fart so you'd probably need a doss near the airport for the night. We stayed at the Gardermoen Airport Motel & Apartment I think - which was more like a decent bunkhouse than what we'd call a motel, really. We returned the rental car to the airport rental office the night before and got the shuttle bus to the terminal the next morning from the posh Clarion hotel next door.

In reply to gilliesp:

Rygge airport has closed!

In reply to Mr. Lee:


yeah, ryan air was their only passenger carrying customer and the new seat tax upset them. Think ryan air still plans to fly from Torp and was even rumoured to be looking at Gardemoen, which would mean it's passengers would still be liable for the seat tax. It's a little odd as all airlines would be liable, so the competition between them wouldn't change either if they all passed the new tax on to customers at full rate.

In reply to gilliesp:

Cheers all of you - will research other travel arrangements.