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This is a list of destinations operated to by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) as of December 2020. [1] [2] The list includes destinations served by airlines with which SAS has or previously had a wet lease agreement, such as CityJet, Cimber Sterling, PrivatAir, Scandinavian Airlines Ireland, or Widerøe. It includes the destination's country (or ...
Flight 933 was a regular, international scheduled flight from SAS's main hub at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It had a scheduled stopover at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in the state of Washington for change of crew and refueling.
SAS was the first European airline to use the model, which allowed non-stop flights to New York. Branded by SAS as the Global Express, the aircraft also allowed SAS to start a service to Tokyo via Anchorage. From the 1960s, the DC-7 operated medium- and short-haul services, and some were converted to freighters before being scrapped. [39]
Scandinavian Airlines — commonly known as SAS, and the carrier of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway — resumed non-stop flights from Miami International Airport to Scandinavia on Oct. 29.
A privately preserved Douglas DC-3 wearing SAS' late 1940s-style markings. The airline was founded on 1 August 1946, when Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB (an airline owned by the Swedish Wallenberg family), Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Det Norske Luftfartselskap AS (the flag carriers of Denmark and Norway) formed a partnership to handle the combined air traffic of the three ...
On 27 October 2007, a Q400 registered as LN-RDI was operating SAS Flight 2867 from Bergen, Norway to Copenhagen, Denmark with 40 passengers and 4 crew members when problems with the main landing gear were discovered. After waiting about two hours in the air to burn fuel and troubleshoot, the pilots attempted a prepared emergency landing.
Owned by the eponymous SAS Group, it operates out of three main hubs, Copenhagen Airport, Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. [1] It transported 22.9 million passengers to 90 destinations on an average 683 flights daily in 2011. [2]
Leif Viking (LN-LMP) from SAS was the first airplane to use the polar route for regular flights. Here Leif Viking becomes christened by Cyd Charisse on 18 November 1954.. Of the commercial airlines, SAS was first: their Douglas DC-6B flights between Los Angeles and Copenhagen, via Kangerlussuaq and Winnipeg, started on November 15, 1954. [4]