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The vast majority of overseas visitors to Norway is by air. Sitting on the far north of Europe, North Americans will need transatlantic flights while Europeans have more options to get here. Even with that said, there are many ways to hop across the Atlantic from North America to Europe and back. The routes depend on which carrier you're going with (e.g. Continental, Scandinavian Air [SAS], British Airways, etc.).It's hard to get a decent matrix of flights to Oslo from America because you're going to have to connect in a hub somewhere in Europe. Direct flights to Oslo may be possible, but it really depends on the carrier. As you can imagine, summarizing it here can be quite complicated and beyond the scope of this website. So instead, we've broken down our experiences on our first trip to Norway to give you an idea of what's involved... In our situation, we actually had rather grueling travel days. On the way there, the travel day went like this... - Los Angeles to Chicago: 4 hours
- roughly 3 hour layover in O'Hare
- Chicago to Stockholm, Sweden: 8.5 hours
- roughly 2 hour layover in Stockholm
- Stockholm to Oslo: 1 hour
On the return trip, it was even more grueling... - Tromsų to Oslo: 2 hours
- roughly 5 hour layover in Oslo
- Oslo to Copenhagen, Denmark: 1.5 hours
- a rushed layover incl. customs in Copenhagen (1.5 hours)
- Copenhagen to Chicago: 8.25 hours
- roughly 3 hour layover in Chicago
- Chicago to Los Angeles: 4 hours
I'm sure there are better ways to go about a transatlantic flight from LA to Norway, but this ought to give you an idea of how taxing it can be. Once you're in Oslo, you can hire a car and drive about the country. Since we were staying two nights in Oslo, we actually picked up the car after checking out of a hotel and walking to a rental car shop several blocks away. That was because parking isn't necessarily a straight-forward afair in Oslo. The roads are in good condition around the country and a passenger car is perfectly satisfactory for most needs. If you're short on time or don't feel like driving long distances on winding mountain roads, you can fly domestically. Check out Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) for routes and flight times.
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