A new budget airline serving Ireland is to start passenger operations nextweek.
Launched by SAS Scandinavian Airlines, the no-frills carrier, calledSnowflake, will fly twice a week between Dublin and Stockholm.
The cost of a single ticket between the two cities will start from €79.
The Dublin flights are part of a European network of services that Snowflakewill operate from Stockholm and Copenhagen. Other destinations include Athens,Barcelona, Rome and Lisbon.
Aimed at leisure travellers, Snowflake will operate Boeing 737-800 aircraft,with the first flights beginning on March 30th and the Dublin flights on March31st.
The start date comes just days before another low-cost carrier - Buzz -effectively disappears, having been taken over by budget airline Ryanair.
Buzz flights are suspended for the whole of April. On May 1st, the airlinestarts operations again under the Ryanair banner.