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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 ...
In 1954, SAS became the first airline to fly the Copenhagen - Los Angeles polar route in regular scheduled service. In 1957, SAS was the first airline to offer "round the world service over the North Pole" from Copenhagen to Tokyo via Anchorage. The airline entered the jet age in 1959 with the introduction of the Caravelle aircraft.
This is a list of all airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators , the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included for completeness.
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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.
STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Hundreds of SAS flights were cancelled on Thursday as the airline wrestled with a strike by pilots at its main SAS Scandinavia arm, overshadowing a traffic surge ...
The changes at SAS led to Air Transport World naming SAS the Airline of the Year for 1983 in early 1984. Carlzon also oversaw a complete corporate identity re-design, a process which was marred when a journalist gained unlawful access to a hangar with a plane painted in a proposed livery was photographed and widely published in Scandinavian ...
Originally five aircraft were delivered, one of which suffered a non-fatal accident at John F. Kennedy International Airport in February 1984 (Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901), was repaired and brought back to service. SAS took delivery of the last seven as used aircraft in 1985–87, when the airline replaced the 747 and introduced ...