Widerøe Dash 8-100 LN-WIE Flew 17 Sectors Across Eight Arctic Norway Airports in One Day
Why It MattersThe day shows how regional turboprops hold together remote northern networks through dense chains of short hops, a model that depends on aircraft built for low-altitude, short-field work.
On Wednesday, October 21, a Widerøe Bombardier Dash 8-100 registered LN-WIE operated 17 flights between eight airports in Arctic Norway. The aircraft departed Tromsø Airport (TOS) at 04:12 UTC and finished at Lakselv Airport (LKL) at 21:28, an elapsed day of 17 hours and 16 minutes, of which 8 hours and 34 minutes were spent airborne.
Flights averaged just over 30 minutes. The longest, Tromsø to Kirkenes (KKN), took 1 hour 7 minutes and was the only one to exceed an hour; the shortest, Båtsfjord (BJF) to Vadsø (VDS), lasted seven minutes. Eleven of the 17 flights lasted 35 minutes or less.
