Linjeflyg later upgraded the service to Convair Metropolitan until introducing much larger jet-engined Fokker F28 on the route.

The flights were discontinued in 2000 following the opening of the Öresund bridge, drastically shortening travel time on land from Kristianstad to Copenhagen.

The closure was predominantly caused by reintroduced Ryanair flights from London to Malmö-Sturup, about a 100-minute car journey from Kristianstad.

[3][4] In April 2002, SAS Scandinavian Airlines announced that it would close down flights from Kristianstad to Stockholm-Arlanda by the end of October along with other destinations.

The competitors offered a total of 10 daily frequencies to Stockholm when they both commenced their flights out of Kristianstad on 28 October 2002.

Malmö Aviation therefore withdrew their flights in late March 2003, half a year after they had started, leaving Skyways as the only carrier on the Stockholm route.

The route was subsequently taken over by Direktflyg, offering flights from Gothenburg via Kristianstad to Palanga and vice versa.

[10] In 2006, the airport entered a contract with Gothenburg-based City Airline over new twice-daily flights to Stockholm-Bromma.

The court confirmed Skyways' position in December 2006, when the airport already had paid 5.6 million krona to City Airline.

As the company lacked an own licence, it deployed a Saab 340 chartered from Sky Taxi on the route and offered up to three daily flights.

[15] The Polish Saab 340 was replaced by a larger Fokker 50 chartered from Greek Minoan Air in October.

[17] Despite now having a new carrier in place, the passenger numbers declined heavily as Fliglinjen just offered a much smaller capacity than Skyways once did.

As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, BRA closed many of its services in March 2020, including Kristianstad.

[citation needed] In March 2023, Skåneflyg again announced the termination of the airport's sole scheduled service.