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Öresund Bridge raises toll for single journeys between Sweden and Denmark

The Öresund Bridge on Thursday increased its toll for single journeys but said that new discount rates will be introduced.

Öresund Bridge raises toll for single journeys between Sweden and Denmark

The bridge’s operator Öresundsbron set out the changes to toll prices in a press statement on Tuesday.

“We are making it cheaper for those who travel with us the most and the price will go up for those who travel less,” Öresundsbron director of sales and marketing Berit Vestergaard said at a briefing on the price changes.

The toll price for a one-way crossing on the Öresund Bridge was raised to 645 Swedish kronor (440 Danish kroner) from the previous 610 kronor (415 kroner) on Tuesday, a 6 percent increase.

Discount offers for both private and business customers will provide bigger savings for frequent bridge users under the new price structure.

While the annual fee to register for one of the Öresund Bridge’s range of discount offers goes up from 495 Swedish kronor (335 Danish kroner) to 499 kronor(349 kroner), the price per journey falls by 6-7 percent or 8-12 kroner per journey.

A breakdown of the Öresund Bridge price changes in full. Photo: Öresundsbron

Increased prices on single trips allow the cost of a crossing for a discount customer to be reduced, Vestergaard said.

“We want to offer our customers a cheaper price and we are doing it at a time when many other things are becoming more expensive,” she said in the statement.

“It will simply be cheaper and easier to cross the Öresund with a discount offer. The price per journey will fall by around 7 percent,” she said.

Tuesday’s changes mean that motorists registered for discount offers will no longer need to carry an electronic tag to register at the toll. Instead, tolls will use number plate recognition. Cars must be registered on the Öresundsbron website.

Discount schemes for the bridge have been renamed under three categories: ÖresundGO, ÖresundPENDLER and ÖresundBUSINESS.

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SAS

SAS wins case against Ryanair over Danish and Swedish Covid support

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Scandinavian airline SAS did not receive illegal state backing from Denmark and Sweden during Covid-19 lockdown, in a case initiated by rival company Ryanair.

SAS wins case against Ryanair over Danish and Swedish Covid support

The case, which has been tried at several levels of the ECJ, has now reached its conclusive judgement, meaning SAS is cleared.

Ryanair brought about the case against its competitor because it argued the Covid support given to SAS represented preferential treatment.

The Ireland-based low-cost airline said that SAS was given a credit guarantee of a maximum of 1.5 billion Swedish kronor by Denmark and Sweden.

The money was partly compensation for lost turnover resulting from Covid-19 restrictions. But Ryanair said that gave SAS an unfair advantage in competition with other airlines.

READ ALSO: Airline SAS taken to court over passenger compensation delays

Ryanair’s claimed was dismissed by the ECJ on Thursday, with the court finding that the Danish and Swedish backing was in line with EU rules.

SAS’ larger market share than its rivals meant the company was harder-hit by travel restrictions, the ECJ found.

“The Court of Justice definitively dismisses Ryanair’s actions concerning the loan guarantees put in place by Sweden and Denmark in April 2020,” the court said in a statement.

“The Court of Justice points out, in particular, that the aid measure at issue could be limited to SAS. It was not necessary for it to benefit all undertakings that suffered damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” it added.

SAS continues to struggle financially long after Covid-19 travel restrictions were rescinded. The airline reported a loss of 638 million Swedish kronor in August, it said in results published this week.

It was, however, able to present a profit in its results from the second quarter of this year.

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