Scandinavian Airlines - SAS

[staff]

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
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Founded in 1946 as a consortium of the national airlines of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
HQ: Arlanda (Stockholm, Sweden).
Main Hub: CPH (One of the most important airports in Europe, situated in Copenhagen, Denmark)
Member and co-founder of Star Alliance (CPH is one of the Star Alliance Hubs!).
SAS is one of the largest airlines in Europe, and the 15th largest in the world.

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SAS Fleet:

Airbus A340-300 (Long range widebody aircraft):

This quad-engine aircraft is one of my all time favourites. I think it have one of the longest ranges of all airplanes (maybe the longest) and are capable of flights between BKK-JFK etc. SAS's A340s only fly from Copenhagen (to Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai etc.) I think. SAS has got 7 A340s in their fleet.

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Airbus A330-300 (Medium to long range widebody aircraft):

I've flown (???) with this twinjet aircraft (to BKK, EWR etc.) several times and always find it very nice. Comfortable, low engine sound level and SAS seat arrangements and service (PTV:s etc.) are always classy. This aircraft (which replaced the old 767s) is closely related to A340 and SAS has got 4 of them in their fleet (one with Star Alliance livery!).

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Airbus A321-200 (Short to medium range narrowbody airliner):

Stretched version of A319. I've never been on a SAS operated flight with this aircraft, but with other airlines (BA etc.). It is notable that SAS uses more and more Airbus aircraft in their fleet - which I like. SAS has got 8 of these planes in their fleet, and 4 more are ordered (I think).

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Boeing 737-600/700/800 (Short to medium range narrowbody aircraft):

Different versions (capacity) of the popular 737 is a large part of the SAS fleet (30 -600 aircraft, 6 -700 aircraft and 13 -800 aircraft). These planes fly domestic flights within Sweden and from CPH/ARN etc. to different airports in Europe.

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MD-81/-82/-83/-87 (Short to medium range narrowbody airliner):

This aircraft operated on the same flights as the 737s. SAS has got 14 MD-81s, 27 MD-82s, 0 (!) MD-83s and 15 MD-87s in their fleet. I think SAS is the largest MD-8x operator in the world. I personally think this plane is kind of ugly and I hope SAS will begin to relpace them soon, but they're still medium aged aircrafts (delivered in the middle of the 80s).

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MD-90 (Short to medium range narrowbody airliner):

This is a stretched version of the MD-80 series and in SAS configuration they have 147 seats, which is quite much for a narrowbody aircraft. 8 MD-90s are available in the SAS fleet.

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de Haviland Q400 (Regional turboprop airliner):

The SAS-fleet of Q400s are operated entirely by SAS Commuter. These aircraft have 72 seats and SAS owns 24 of them. The stage length of these aircraft are about 550 km or less.

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Fokker F50 (Turboprop regional aircraft):

This Fokker model is extremely popular and is considered a very good aircraft. They are operated by SAS Commuter and have 46-50 seats. SAS have 6 of them in traffic, and all of them are operated for domestic flights within Norway. Too bad Fokker colapsed in 1996, RIP!

[Chibcha2k]

wow...nice thread

i read on an aviation magazine that SAS split operations.... do you have any information about this?

[staff]

Chibcha2k,

What do you mean by "split operations"?

Some more SAS-pics:

From airliners.net.


SAS don't operate 747s anymore, which is sad. This is the old-old livery.


And the last colour scheme.

[Chibcha2k]

i mean that SAS split operations between Sweden, Denmark and Norway...and created an International branch...something like that

[staff]

Correct, SAS is the "national" airline of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The HQ is in Stockholm and the Home Airport is in CPH.

[_tictac_]

Pictures of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)

[staff]

_tictac_,

I love those pics.

Where are the first two pictures taken? It looks like that MD-8x is about to smash into the mountain wall, Aeroflot style.

PS. I've seen a picture taken from the artificial island Peberholm in Öresund, where you can see cars going down the tunnel, a tanker ship in the sound, and a SAS-plane landing on CPH. I need to see that pic again! DS.