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Order HereSAS Scandinavian Airlines plans to launch three North-Atlantic routes in 2016, adding 330,000 seats to its international network, the company said.
The new routes being launched are Los Angeles from Stockholm, Miami from Oslo and Miami from Copenhagen. SAS is also increasing the number of departures from Stockholm to New York and Chicago and between Copenhagen and Shanghai.
SAS will launch daily Stockholm Arlanda-Los Angeles services from March 14, 2016. Starting from fall 2016, SAS will launch 3X-weekly Oslo-Miami services as well as 3X-weekly Copenhagen Kastrup-Miami flights, according to the statement.
“SAS is focused on long-haul routes on the Northern Hemisphere. We are excited by our North American operations, but also to the Far East. That’s why we are also launching Stockholm-Hong Kong flights from next month,” president and CEO Rickard Gustafson told ATW.
Over a million passengers travel between Sweden and the US annually. Over the past year, Sweden experienced a 36% passenger growth, according to Swedavia, which operates 10 airports across Sweden.
In addition, the Star Alliance carrier will increase frequencies on existing routes for the coming 2015/16 winter schedule from Stockholm to New York JFK and Chicago O’Hare, as well as from Copenhagen to Shanghai Pudong, and San Francisco and Oslo-New York Newark.
SAS currently offers long-haul service to New York Newark, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco, Houston International, Beijing, Shanghai Pudong and Tokyo Narita.
“This year we will also get our first [of four] Airbus A330 Enhanced aircraft, and in 2017 we will get our first of eight Airbus A350s,” Gustafson told ATW, adding that SAS has rewritten pilot agreements from scratch. “We have kept our very professional pilotsemployed within SAS, but with modern collective agreements that improve our flexibility, our capacity in the summer when more passengers are in the system, long-haul production, and so on,” he said. SAS has four pilot unions.
“Starting in 2016, we will begin operations with our new Airbus A320neo,” Gustafson said, adding that over the next 12 to 18 months SAS will “have to make a decision about our future narrowbody fleet. We currently operate Boeing 737s [based] in Stockholm and Oslo, and Airbus A320 family aircraft in Copenhagen. We will see how we develop [and evaluate our future fleet] further,” Gustafson said.
Editor note: this article was edited to insert the correct New York airport, which is Newark.
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Order HereSAS Scandinavian Airlines plans to launch three North-Atlantic routes in 2016, adding 330,000 seats to its international network, the company said.
The new routes being launched are Los Angeles from Stockholm, Miami from Oslo and Miami from Copenhagen. SAS is also increasing the number of departures from Stockholm to New York and Chicago and between Copenhagen and Shanghai.
SAS will launch daily Stockholm Arlanda-Los Angeles services from March 14, 2016. Starting from fall 2016, SAS will launch 3X-weekly Oslo-Miami services as well as 3X-weekly Copenhagen Kastrup-Miami flights, according to the statement.
“SAS is focused on long-haul routes on the Northern Hemisphere. We are excited by our North American operations, but also to the Far East. That’s why we are also launching Stockholm-Hong Kong flights from next month,” president and CEO Rickard Gustafson told ATW.
Over a million passengers travel between Sweden and the US annually. Over the past year, Sweden experienced a 36% passenger growth, according to Swedavia, which operates 10 airports across Sweden.
In addition, the Star Alliance carrier will increase frequencies on existing routes for the coming 2015/16 winter schedule from Stockholm to New York JFK and Chicago O’Hare, as well as from Copenhagen to Shanghai Pudong, and San Francisco and Oslo-New York Newark.
SAS currently offers long-haul service to New York Newark, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco, Houston International, Beijing, Shanghai Pudong and Tokyo Narita.
“This year we will also get our first [of four] Airbus A330 Enhanced aircraft, and in 2017 we will get our first of eight Airbus A350s,” Gustafson told ATW, adding that SAS has rewritten pilot agreements from scratch. “We have kept our very professional pilotsemployed within SAS, but with modern collective agreements that improve our flexibility, our capacity in the summer when more passengers are in the system, long-haul production, and so on,” he said. SAS has four pilot unions.
“Starting in 2016, we will begin operations with our new Airbus A320neo,” Gustafson said, adding that over the next 12 to 18 months SAS will “have to make a decision about our future narrowbody fleet. We currently operate Boeing 737s [based] in Stockholm and Oslo, and Airbus A320 family aircraft in Copenhagen. We will see how we develop [and evaluate our future fleet] further,” Gustafson said.
Editor note: this article was edited to insert the correct New York airport, which is Newark.
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Order HereSAS Scandinavian Airlines plans to launch three North-Atlantic routes in 2016, adding 330,000 seats to its international network, the company said.
The new routes being launched are Los Angeles from Stockholm, Miami from Oslo and Miami from Copenhagen. SAS is also increasing the number of departures from Stockholm to New York and Chicago and between Copenhagen and Shanghai.
SAS will launch daily Stockholm Arlanda-Los Angeles services from March 14, 2016. Starting from fall 2016, SAS will launch 3X-weekly Oslo-Miami services as well as 3X-weekly Copenhagen Kastrup-Miami flights, according to the statement.
“SAS is focused on long-haul routes on the Northern Hemisphere. We are excited by our North American operations, but also to the Far East. That’s why we are also launching Stockholm-Hong Kong flights from next month,” president and CEO Rickard Gustafson told ATW.
Over a million passengers travel between Sweden and the US annually. Over the past year, Sweden experienced a 36% passenger growth, according to Swedavia, which operates 10 airports across Sweden.
In addition, the Star Alliance carrier will increase frequencies on existing routes for the coming 2015/16 winter schedule from Stockholm to New York JFK and Chicago O’Hare, as well as from Copenhagen to Shanghai Pudong, and San Francisco and Oslo-New York Newark.
SAS currently offers long-haul service to New York Newark, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco, Houston International, Beijing, Shanghai Pudong and Tokyo Narita.
“This year we will also get our first [of four] Airbus A330 Enhanced aircraft, and in 2017 we will get our first of eight Airbus A350s,” Gustafson told ATW, adding that SAS has rewritten pilot agreements from scratch. “We have kept our very professional pilotsemployed within SAS, but with modern collective agreements that improve our flexibility, our capacity in the summer when more passengers are in the system, long-haul production, and so on,” he said. SAS has four pilot unions.
“Starting in 2016, we will begin operations with our new Airbus A320neo,” Gustafson said, adding that over the next 12 to 18 months SAS will “have to make a decision about our future narrowbody fleet. We currently operate Boeing 737s [based] in Stockholm and Oslo, and Airbus A320 family aircraft in Copenhagen. We will see how we develop [and evaluate our future fleet] further,” Gustafson said.
Editor note: this article was edited to insert the correct New York airport, which is Newark.
The information on this page may have been provided by a contributor and no guarantees can be made about the accuracy of any content. Contributors must obtain all necessary licenses and/or ownership rights from the relevant content owner(s) before submitting the same for publication. AIRLINE PARTNERSHIP disclaims all liability arising from the publication of content received from contributors. Please refer to our Disclaimer for more details.