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Scandinavian Airline System (SAS

IATA ICAO Callsign SK SAS Scandinavian
Founded	1946
Frequent-flyer program	EuroBonus
Alliance	Star Alliance
Fleet size	226
Destinations	97
Headquarters	Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm
Website	http://www.scandinavian.net

Scandinavian Airlines

Scandinavian Airlines was founded in 1946 bu Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL), Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) and Sveriges Interkontinentale Aero Selskap (SIAS). Operations started in September 1946 with European destinations. In 1951 the airline was dividated to SAS Denmark (28,6%), SAS Norway (28,6&) and SAS Sweden (42,8%). In 1954 SAS started the worlds first intercontinental route. It was from Copenhagen to Los Angeles, and it became wery popular. Later that year SAS opened several routes to East-Asia as well.

SAS almost got monopoly on all domestic routes in the three countries by acquiring full partial control of local airlines. In 1997 SAS formed the global alliance Star Alliance together with Air Canada, Lufthansa, Thai airways and United Airlines. In 2004 SAS bought the Norwegian flag carrier Braathens, and SAS was divided into 4 different companies:

SAS International

SAS Sweden

SAS Denmark

SAS Braathens

Destinations

SAS serves several destinations world over. Under is a list who shows them.

SAS McDonnell Douglas MD-82

SAS Boeing 737-600

SAS Airbus A321

SAS´s low cost airline Snowlflake in Alicante

Dash 8 from SAS Commutter

Asia: 5 destinations

Beijing - Shanghai - Tokyo - Bangkok - Singapore

Africa: 1 destination

Cairo

Europe: 84 destinations

Vienna - Brussels - Prague - Århus - Aalborg - Billund - Copenhagen - Tallinn - Helsinki - Tampere - Nice - Paris - Berlin - Düsseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Hanover - Munich - Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Athens - Budapest - Reykjavik - Dublin - Bolgona - Florence - Milan -Naples - Rome - Venice - Vilnius - Amsterdam - Ålesund - Alta - Bergen - Bodø - Harstad/Narvik - Haugesund - Kirkenes - Kristiansand - Kristiansund - Molde - Oslo - Stavanger - Tromsø - Trondheim - Longyarbyen - Gdansk -Poznan - Warsaw - Lisbon - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Allicante - Barcelona - Madrid - Málaga - Las Palmas - Arvidsjaur - Gothenburg - Helsingborg -Kalmar - Kiruna - Luleå - Malmö - Örnsköldsvik - Ronneby - Skellefteå - Stockholm - Sundsval - Umeå - Växjö - Geneva - Zurich - Poznan - Zagreb - Istanbul - Aberdeen - Birmingham - Edinburgh - London - Manchester - Newcastle - Chania - Sarajevo - Bucuresti - Belfast

Middle east: 1 destination

Beirut

North-America: 4 destinations

Chicago - New York - Seattle - Washington D.C.

Fleet

Type	Number	Seats	Notes
Airbus A340-300	7	261
Airbus A330-300	4	261
Airbus A321-200	8	184
Airbus A319-200	4	121
Boeing 737-800	12	132-179
Boeing 737-700	27	131-134
Boeing 737-600	27	95-123
Boeing 737-500	14	120
Boeing 737-300	4	150
McDonnell Douglas MD-87	15	120
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	25	141-145
McDonnell Douglas MD-81	9	141-145
deHavilland Q400	24	58-72
Fokker F-50	6	50