End of an era

Checking in for my SAS flight to Kalmar this morning, I am sad to report that this route will soon meet the same fate as my Pan Am luggage tag. After 66 years of flying to Kalmar Airport, Scandinavian Airlines has made the decision to stop all flights from 13 August this year, meaning that my boarding pass for SK195 may well be the last one that I will ever hold in my hand.

Since I am moving to Gothenburg, I will personally have much less need for this route than in the past when living in Umeå, but it has still been very useful when connecting from elsewhere, with a late-night flight in the summer of 2003 from buzzing Heathrow to the calm in Kalmar always ingrained in my memory.