BRA Braathens Regional, Sweden’s AMAZING Little Airline: Gothenburg to Stockholm-Bromma
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Date of Travel: JANUARY 2018
Airline: BRA Braathens Regional
Flight #: TF11
Aircraft: Avro RJ100
Livery: BRA Standard pastel rainbow
Route: GOT-BMA
Tail number: SE-DSV
Miles: 235
Airborne time: 0h56m
Notes: Aircraft swap from RJ85
Cost to book: Around £100, including bags and flexibility - one way.
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I was in Gothenburg in 2016 and noticed a strange-looking airline with odd “rainbow” style tail fins. I found out they were BRA Braathens Regional Airlines, a small domestic carrier operating mostly within Sweden from their hub at Bromma.
So, naturally, I had to try them. At around £100 one way this was by no means a cheap flight. These Gothenburg to Stockholm shuttles are meant for the business traveller and priced accordingly. The flight was full of people off to do a day’s business in Sweden’s capital.
However, even given the price, I was still impressed by their service standard. This is an airline that knows who its customers are and the product is sensible and thoughtful. There’s even a breakfast served on the flight, a coffee and drinks service, a hot towel and a second drinks run. Very impressive on a flight of under an hour.
Of course, the real highlight for me was an opportunity to fly one of these old RJ aircraft again. I can remember when they were the staple of BA Cityflyer flights from London City back when I was starting my flying addiction. They’re a fun aircraft to fly. A bit cramped, but their uniqueness ensures charm overrides pragmatism for me.
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Managed to find another small airline in Europe that deserves a wider profile... 👌🏻
Thank you to everyone who watched my (very long) Q+A video yesterday - really appreciate all the kind words.
It’s Sunday, so here’s a trip report to tide you over until next weekend. Enjoy!
No problem, done the whole trip with you!
Paul's Trip Reports I’m Swedish and live in Gothenburg :)
Lovely to see that you made a beatiful tripreport on one of our Airlines! (In Swedish Btw) :-)
A very good video Paul, only one small mistake. The lake is called Mälaren, not Målaren as you wrote. Anyways. Thank you for doing a video on our small and obscure airline.
Can you try Air Dolomiti? Such an amazing regional airline!
Great to see how Swedish people can walk on an icy surface without the need for signs warning them of a slip hazard or people in yellow vests being 'concerned about your safety' they just get on with it!
Haha, we learn that from When we are small, since is icy 4months of the year
Your Scandinavian adventures are always my favourites!
That lounge was a carbon copy of an IKEA showroom
pot4000 well ikea is from sweden so... :D
This basically applies to all of Sweden... Having lived in Sweden for more than a year I'm calling this completely ordinary now lol
It was good to see that some of the BAe146/Avro RJ's are still flying. I was one of the original design team who worked on the BAe146 at Hatfield. I have many happy memories of the aircraft.
Thanks for another great report, I'm so happy you enjoyed your trip! BRA must sound funny to you, means "good" in Swedish😉 Come back to us soon, our climate is cold but we are warm people🌞
Thanks Therese, I will probably return in summer!
Paul's Trip Reports How Lovely, I hope you come to Stockholm!🇸🇪
BRA also means Good in Norwegian
Wow looks like a wonderful airline they deserve a higher profile!
The sight of all that lovely snow makes me want to move to Sweden! Thanks!
I loved this flight. I thought the landinng deserved a10 for sure. I am 90 and most of my traveling days are over so I do enjoy your videos.
love that old metroliner sat out in the cold
Great Trip report, as always! I'd never heard of this airline so thank you especially for that; I'm really impressed with their on board service. Wonderful on all accounts.
Yes indeed - not cheap but definitely a breath of fresh air considering the general race to the bottom with mainstream airlines.
I remember back in the 80s, Braathens flew in Norway with 737-200s, I used to ride on those quite a few times.
Great review of an airline I've never flown with even though I'm Swedish. They seem to target business travellers and has most of their routes in southern Sweden where I would prefer taking the train. Hopefully we'll see them expand north to for example Luleå airport in the future, would be great with more GOT-LLA departures for me atleast.Oh and btw, the lake is called Mälaren, Målaren means "the painter" in Swedish :)
Once again, thanks for a great video, if you want to fly more BAe, another Swedish domestic carrier, Nextjet, is actually using a 146 Avro on the Gällivare-Örnsköldsvik-Arlanda route, but I believe it is operated by Astra Airways.
Thanks Mårten! I would love to see them fly to Luleå. I have plans to take the Gothenburg to Luleå sleeper train in the summer and would return south by air. However SAS are very cheap from LLA and I’m not sure this airline could compete.
Absolutely, lots of competition on the ARN-LLA route, both from SAS and Norwegian. You're probably right about the competition being to tough for BRA, especially since there are many leisure travellers to Luleå and not too many business travellers. Yet, considering ARN-LLA has the most passengers yearly of any domestic route in Sweden, I do think there would be room for better non-stop connections to LLA from Gothenburg, currently there's only one flight each way per day, and none on Saturdays.
Anyway, that looks like a great trip plan, I'll be looking forward to your report!
Fantastic video, congratulations!
Thanks for the video, BRA truly is cool! They are a close partner to Finnair, operating flights from Stockholm-Bromma, Umeå and Malmö (from 16 April) to HEL for AY.
Good to see that service standards are maintained and not every airline is rushing to the lowest cost/give them less model, with a reasonable in flight food and beverage supplied. In your video the quietness of the plane is noticeable.
I don’t know why, but the cabin sound of aircraft parked at the gate are very soothing!
Paul. Just want to thank you for all of the entertaining, unbiased videos I’ve viewed. I’m sure long hours of diligent work and early, early mornings. Again thanks! Very enjoyable. Safe travels to you.
Ahhh the swedish landscape, breathtaking, Sweden its on my bucket list to visit or live for a while...
Gerardo Arenas You are welcome to sweden 🙌🏼🤩
Great video Paul. Love the early morning shots - very noir. Don't think I've ever see a simultaneous push back of two aircraft like the one seen at 06:42. Keep 'em coming mate.
It was strange - they pushed us so we faced each other, as we were at the mouth of a taxiway. That SAS flight was also for Stockholm, but Arlanda rather than Bromma. I expect we chased each other across Sweden for a while!
I have never seen that either, but just this weekend I was at Houston and I saw them push back 3 airplanes at once. Very strange.
It is not so unusual in sweden, i think it is for the simplicity. They can de ice taxi and take off close in time, so the ATC can focus on other things like inbound flights. But hear me, it is just my guess.
Nice trip & good to see some British made Aircraft still flying : )
What a nice video! I love the quirky unique Avro. I just love the four engines, the lovely wide cabin, the soft ride and more than anything else the wooshing sound upon flap retraction! what a great aircraft!
Great stuff as always. Really enjoyed the report, good value it seems. Braathens brings back great memories as a young spotter in Jersey. They formed many of the overflights to the Spanish resorts.
I flew on the BAE146 with Air Wisconsin and US Air in the late 80’s early 90’s. It was an interesting aircraft. I loved the ‘hounds of Honslow’ every time the flaps came down.
I’d forgotten the 146 was used in the States. Surprising really as there’s a lot of real estate to build airports and you don’t have many tiny, poky airports like Bromma or London City. Even regional airports in the US take up a lot of land and the runway lengths are very good.
Paul's Trip Reports Oh, Paul, I do believe you have to come over here and experience Washington National, Chicago Midway and John Wayne Orange County. Especially the latter as take-off out of there is Disney’s Greatest E-Ticket ride! 737NGs and 757s takeoff straight up!
I’ve been to DCA and MDW, as far as American airports go they’re on the small side. But they each have a 7000 and 6500 foot runway respectively. You can fit a 757 in both of those! London City has a 4900 foot runway and Lugano just 4600 - approaching the minimums for the RJ.
I too have flown Air Wisconsin when they flew the BAE 146-200's in the early '80's--one flight was from CWA-GRB-ORD,only a 20 minute hop from CWA-GRB,sat in the first row,window seat so as to capture on audio the sound of the engines and the APU noise from outside--Air Wisconsin also flew the -300 variant--VERY distinct sound the flaps make when extending/retracting during flight
@@Paul_Lucas For what it's worth, the engines for these aircraft are from an American company. Their birth is from a military engine used on the Northrop A-9 which lost its competition with the A-10 warthog. Go figure.
Great video. Very enjoyable to watch as always.
Wow that’s a quiet plane! I thought you were just taxi-ing perhaps a tad on the fast side until I saw the plane rotating! Thanks.
Awesome video, love the music selection. I look forward for every Sunday morning!! Hope you come back to the states soon!!
What a brilliant little airline! This reminds me of PAL Airlines, another small regional carrier located in eastern Canada. Loved the report! 😄✈️
Great Video! Love the breakfast boxes they provide on this short flight.
WAIT WHAT?!
You go on a BAE146/RJ100 with FREE SEAT choice and don't fight for rows 1-3?! I would a 1000% sure fight for them!
Other than this a great trip report as usual :D
Greetings from Larnaca at the moment!
hi paul looks like a pretty decent airline and a good flight! nice ameneties on board and the service looked pretty efficient. you seemed to be pleased and all in all a good experience. love the bae regional jets! rob
I like how you spotted the de-icer ..attention to detail.spot on
I liked the little mood montage of images you started the video with. Very atmospheric! :)
What a smooth soft landing! I had to rewind a bit to see the hardly noticeable camera shake :) Thanks for sharing yet another nice flight.
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Flap angle markings are there for maintenance, visual cross check with cockpit, and for installation to set the mechanics 😁 all the outside markings are for the same reason
Thanks!
Paul's Trip Reports ha ha, was still watching when you replied! Great review, just waiting for the 'bra' jokes to roll 🤣
Yve Rose I’m waiting for that too, and then to watch the video get demonetised by RUclips and then me having to appeal it 😉
Yve Rose Maintenance,Ive worked on these aircraft in the past,Sadly,There being phased out;
scottsteven19 sorry to hear, used to work at bae so know how that goes ☹️
Probably my favourite plane - I remember flying on the Bae146 from Gatwick to jersey as a youngster in the late 80s
Which airline would that have been? Brymon or someone?
Would have probably been Dan Air if it was the 80's. BA and JEA/Flybe flew the 146/Avro Gatwick to Jersey but not until the mid 90s
Paul's Trip Reports - almost certainly dan air - I think my parents have a photo of me with the plane somewhere...
I think I may have also flown in a bae146 to Bern from Gatwick in 1991 - also Dan air?
Think you’re right. Actually can’t recall Brymon having 146s. They had a load of prop aircraft like Dash-7s. A bit before my time!
Brymon Never operated 146s . Operated twin otters and dash-7s early years then Dash8-300 in later years. Also think they had a Herald at one stage. Never flew Gatwick to Jersey. Brymon routes to Jersey were from Cardiff,Bristol and Plymouth.
Great video Paul of an airline most of us will never of heard of as well as the retro experience of travelling on an RJ100 - its been a very long time since I've been on one. Enjoyed the apron shots at Gothenburg, demonstrated the capabilities of the new camera really well.
Always love you the videos & great choice of music. Keep them coming xxx
FANTASTIC Trip Report!
Never heard this airline before, only Braathens with their B737classics in I think the 1990's
20+years ago, oh my god :-)
Awesome, Paul! Looks like BRA Regional deserves more passengers 😆 I will have to try them at some point 😁 Cheers from Hamburg 🍀
I like that you got a nice meal on the flight. Even if it was short. Thanks for the video. If you go to Bedford or Augsburg please announce it.
Wow thanks for this trip report! It was very brå! haha....I always assumed they were sort of a low cost airline so a nice surprise to see the breakfast box and hot towel service!
It was a surprise for me too! Their website doesn’t really mention it at all!
OMG!!! Yeeees!!! A trip report from Gothenburg! My home city! Yaay!! I love that airport, not too big, but not too small. :) More trip reports from Gothenburg! :D
You get a like just for the enthusiasm!
Paul's Trip Reports | Yay, btw, really great video! :D
Jonathan Karlsson jag är från Stockholm
I remember flying the BAE 146 on PSA airlines here in the US, back in the day. The airline that looked like it had a smile on the front of the plane.
Good video Paul. I remember flying on an Avro RJ 100, when BA Cityflyer use to operate a selection of routes out of LGW 2000's.
I liked the full takeoff roll footage. Wish you would include it more often. Thanks Paul 100,000!
That dude in the middle of the planespotting article is me lol. Me and a friend flew OSD back in october to meet another planespotter and de an interview for BRA :)
I feel so great to see my home airport (Landvetter) featured! Welcome to Gothenburg!
A great and efficient airline. A very nice video.
Agreed - that's one awesome route map!
Sunday isn’t Sunday without your trip reports ❤️
I love the sound flap extension/retraction on the 146! Used to love flying them on AirUK, Sabena and Meridiana...
Can really see the use of it as a business airline. Great service for such a short flight!
The degree markings are for maintenance when rigging the flaps after coming out of phase inspections. Dually, they can be used in an emergency situation for one of the cabin crew to relay to the pilot's the position of the flaps if there is any doubt or issue with the indications in the cockpit.
Next year the Tramway "Tvärbanan" will get to Bromma Airport which means you have a transportation method to the airport that's not dependent on the road traffic as the Tram will have it's own tracks.
"Tvärbanan" is part of a partial ring around Stockholm to facilitate sideways connections.
When it's innaugurated i would reccomend taking it to "Alvik" and there switch to the Green Underground line it goes through the city center and being the oldest Underground is just below ground level.
Terrific trip report! Absolutely enjoyable! ;-)
I have been a subscriber for you since quite a while! So cool you flew from my home airport! I hope you liked it and also the Aveo rj 100! We have been investing a lot of money to modernize land better!
Another brilliant video, really look forward go seeing where you are off to on your travels next :-)
I've been on that inbound so many times, really like the last two rows as you get additional space on the fuselage side of the seat when the fuselage narrows. Also Bromma is great, conveniently small, when i traveled it a lot, you could get there 6:30 easily to catch the 7 am flight to GOT.
Is't been a good while sinc I flew with Braathens myself. In fact, that they hadn't even been restructured back then. You are actually flying with Braathens Regional Aviation.g before 2016.
BRA actually consists of two sub-brands, There is the Aviationoperating the jets, and the Airways branch, operating the smaller regional routes with ATR 72 aircraft.I Braathens Regional Airlines was created in 2016 following the merger of Malmö Aviation and Sverigeflyg. I flew with Malmö Aviation back in the early 2010s, before they phased out their Saab 2000 fleet.
I love Sundays with your channel :):):) nice vid. Amazing litle aircraft with four engines
Love your channel from Sweden. :)
Wow, very good breakfast for so short flight!
BRA was to be the premiere airline for the CS-200 aircraft. The pulled out after massive delays. The airline is owned by the grandson of the founder of Braathens SAFE (1946-2005). The 737NG in GOT, LN-TUA was the first 700 del direct to an airline and not via Boeing control center. This was the NG with most cycles and TT of any NG. It was b/u a year a go I think. Like you, I love the Avro! Good job!
One of those RJ's has been converted to a fire retardant bomber to fight forest fires in the NW of the US.
The flap angle markings under wings are (I guess) for maintenance. When the test the flapsettings on the ground they can see to check if the flaps are in de correct position. And if there are in flight problems with the flaps position indicator in the flightdeck , one of the pilolts could go in to the cabin and check if the flaps are in the correct position. I have seen similar markings on other types of airplanes. I have never been on a BAE 146 Avrojet though. Thanks for sharing!
There's a candy shop i frequent in the industrial area just before Runway 30 and the planes fly straight over it with about 500 meters to go.
It's really cool.
The plane pushing back paralell to you actually was delivered to Braathens and then merged into sas in the early 2000s (:
This brought back fond memories of flying Edmonton (YEG) to Vancouver (YVR) on the BaE 146. Very comfortable for a short haul flight. On hot days while loading, ewater vapour would curl up from the air vents, so flight attendants wpuld make an announcement.
`Great report! Going to try them myself one day!
I have always liked going between Östersund and Bromma. Short distance to the city of Stockholm. And you can use the local buses instead of expensive airport shuttles.
Such a smooth flight, and a regional airline operating short hops on small planes even manages to be classy and have attention to detail! My only criticism is that everything seems to be only in Swedish. If they're business-oriented, especially in Europe with its largely integrated economy, that means that they are even more likely to have foreign passengers who don't understand a word of Swedish. This is a criticism I have also for airlines in my own country - Brazil, where nearly everything is only in Portuguese on domestic flights. Great video as usual, Paul!
Sweden is a weird one. Actually English signs are less common in Sweden than in a lot of Europe, at least in my experience. They are very protective of their own heritage, I guess. Spoken English is always excellent though.
This is a domestic only airline (with an exception of one route to Helsinki where Swedish is a minority language anyway), so I wasn’t surprised to see little English.
Malmö Aviation in my heart
Never knew that Avro was still making passenger planes. I do like the smaller aircraft, there is something about flying this way that the larger aircraft seem to miss out on. Thank you for the trip report.
They aren’t still making them - this is a very old aircraft, the Avro name being revived by British Aerospace to make them. The original Avro went defunct way back in the 60s.
Another great video Paul. Great to see the old RJ-100. Also to see how the Swedes cope with the snow.
That looked like a nice landing !!!!
Cheers Paul. Nice to see Gothenbirg featured . Last time I was there I flew in from ABZ on a SAS DC-8-63. rEALLY MUST MAKE A RETURN VISIT.
That must have been a while ago! Classic aircraft.
1981/82 I think. The flight was chartered by Aberdeen FC to take their supporters to the European Cup Winners Cup Final, although I didn't go to the game.
What a great little airline!
Know why the BAe 146/Avro RJ has 4 engines? Because they couldn't fit 6 on the wings.
146 = 1 aircraft, 4 engines, 6 needed.
Gr8 video , Paul ! As always ! Did you know LNTUA is the worlds first 73NG ? :). And that SAS was first airline to bring it in to service. LNTUA still has some months to live, before she meets her final resting place. :)
Looking forward to next Sunday ! Fly safe !
That magazine was left from the earlier flight when it operated a charter for Thomas cook to the alps in Salzburg in summer it can fly 4 hours to Greece from Gothenburg in cooperation with Thomas cook
I really enjoyed this video!!! Cheers!! :)
That breakfast roll looks unbelievably fresh compared to most airplane food.
Very cool and unusual aircraft, being relatively small but with four engines.
Good puns in there. Bra means good or great depends at context or emphasis in Swedish. So a sign near the lounge that says "BRA for Sweden" It can also (means Good for Sweden). Then a magazine says "BRAkoll" It means good check/ good watch. :)
Very nice trip and meal service, cool to see a UK built jet flying. USAir had the 146's, I think they came from the merger with PSA in 1987 or 88.
The flap angles are marked because the hydrawlincs system runs the flaps and if the hydraulics were to fail they would droop and it's a quick visual indicator if the hydraulics are working to capacity
Those Avroliner engines are also used on the Chinook chopper
Fabulous video very good flight I can see
Really enjoy watching your weekly updates Paul. Keep up the good work. Maybe you should take Bulgarian Air from Sofia to Bourgas......they also have a fleet of British Aerospace BAe 146's
Sadly it’s been a while since Bulgaria Air had a fleet of 146s. It’s all Airbus and Embraer now. They have an RJ70 but it’s a business charter aircraft.
Hi! Thank you for the seat info, i am going from umeå-brma on monday. With BRA. Also BRA in swedish is Good. :)
You should come to norway and fly with Wideroe, kinda the same thing, smaller plains tho, in some of the routes they only have room for like 30 people. Dash-8-300! And if you fly high north you may be lucky enough to see the northern light now in the winter season! Great video yet again, and keep up with the good work!
Try the Dornier Jet 328 from London City to Billund ! Or the Saab 340 DAT from Esbjerg to Stavanger, I've flown on that several times. Btw, the markings you see are on most top wing mounted aircrafts. The ATR's got them too, it's for indication of where your flaps are set if you have an malfunction on the flap indicator or are unsure whether it's set in the right position or not. You can see the markings from the cockpit.
Did some research into this aircraft (SE-DSV) and found out sadly that it was stored at Norwich (NWI) on 21/12/19, sad to see these aircraft disappearing.
I too love the RJ...it's so cute!
I live in Stockholm, in such a perfect angle, from my room, i can see the planes descend for Bromma Airport. I am a flightspotter, and i like Arlanda more than Bromma, but it’s still cool.
I've always wanted to fly on one of those planes. It's so quiet from the inside.
Lovely Airline! Looks like there is still some service around!
Forget Ryanair and Co when you have Airlines like this.
I miss flying on the bae 146, rj100 such a pocket rocket but quiet. I am glad it has found a niche with regional airlines around the world still.
Yes, there are still a few around. However they’re fast disappearing...
Did you have a choice of cup sizes in the Bra lounge? My apologies for that one...
Bra is issued as you board aircraft!!!
Channel Alf BRA means "good" in Swedish 😃
@MusicalElitist1 Not at all, just adding the Swedish translation😉 All Swedish are fluent in English so the "double entendre" is not lost on any of us😃
@@theresenydahl9531 wanaagsan is good in Somali
@@hellobooom Terrific!👍😀