Tango Alpha

From SAS press release:

In the summer program, SAS is introducing six new all year routes to popular European destinations for both business and holiday travelers from Scandinavia. The new all year routes are Copenhagen to the Faroe Islands and Riga, from Aalborg to Oslo, from Bergen to Gdansk and from Stockholm to Munich and Krakow.

At the same time, SAS is opening nine new summer season routes from Scandinavia to popular holiday destinations in Southern Europe. SAS customers can look forward to new routes from Copenhagen to Malta and Olbia; from Aarhus to Malaga; from Oslo to Pristina; from Stavanger to Nice; from Kristiansand to Malaga and from Stockholm to Lisbon, Shannon and Pristina.


http://www.sasgroup.net/en/summer-pr...15-new-routes/

FlyingMoose

Unfortunately mostly useless for my travel with the exception of LIS.

Is the Shannon that's referred to in the press release SNN? That's a bit of a stretch to call Southern Europe.

Still hoping for an airline to reinstate ARN-LCY.

klmml

Not since the Irish economy recovered, at least...

GUWonder

How nice that they did Faroes. I've been wanting this for a while.

FT Guest xyzpdq

Love the CPH-FAE route.

florens

Same here!

GUWonder

Going from Iceland to FAE (or from FAE to Iceland) could perhaps make for some interesting award travel opportunities with some airline loyalty programs. Some games could perhaps be real gems.

Tango Alpha

I am not sure if you guys are sarcastic – but I think it is nice. I will use FAE for leisure ASAP – and then never do it the next ten years...

But otherwise, it should make sense. Even if there is one other operator, it is kind of semi Danish domestic and just a two hour ride.

It took some while to load CPH-FAE into the reservations system. Now it is there. Cheap eco (1.400 DKK), but no Go Light. And no Plus Saver, which means that Plus is double up from Go. Strange.

GUWonder

I am serious. On a sort of less serious note, I would be surprised if many people have posted more on FT about FAE than I have.

FT Guest xyzpdq

I am dead serious. Lovely place - not too far away and yet a different world.

FT Guest xyzpdq

But of course it has to be a domestic route - it is within the Kingdom of Denmark. So I am counting on 10.000 EB points for a return

GUWonder

The islands are indeed within the Kingdom of Denmark, but they are not part of the European Union. Doesn't that mean that there are some ways in which the route is not really a domestic route for some legal purposes? I was pretty sure that there are some ways in which traffic between FAE and Denmark proper shouldn't be considered "domestic" in the way traffic between CPH and Bornholm is. But given the lack of sleep on the flight over last night, who knows.

There is a sort of separatist party on the Islands that wants even more autonomy from Denmark. I'm a fan of it.

Atlantic Airways isn't still a partner of EuroBonus? How many points has SK been charging for those Atlantic Airways flights? 20k EuroBonus points roundtrip, IIRC.

AlicorporateUK

Further expansion to/from GDN (after the recent launch of ARN) - good news for my local airport

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TPJ

Plus GDN-CPH goes up to 5 daily flights (so up to 8 daily flights and 4 destinations: CPH, ARN, OSL, BGO):

GDN-CPH:

21APR FRI GDN/Z‡2 CPH/‡0
SK RESPONSE ** DIRECT CONNECT PARTICIPANT **
** SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES - AN ** 191 FR 21APR 0000
13SK1758 C9 D9 Z9 R9 J9 Y9 S9 B9 P9 A9 GDNCPH 0615 0715 320 0
E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U9 K9 L9 T9 O9 G9 NL
14SK 756 C9 D9 Z9 R9 J9 Y9 S9 B9 P9 A9 GDNCPH 0940 1100 AT7 0
E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U9 K9 L9 T8 O8 G9 NL
15SK 760 C9 D9 Z9 R9 J9 Y9 S9 B9 P9 A9 GDNCPH 1435 1535 320 0
E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U9 K9 L9 T9 O9 G9 NL
16SK 758 C9 D9 Z9 R9 J9 Y9 S9 B9 P9 A9 GDNCPH 1835 1935 CR9 0
E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U9 K9 L9 T9 O8 G9 NL
17SK 754 C9 D9 Z9 R9 J9 Y9 S9 B9 P9 A9 GDNCPH 2115 2215 CR9 0
E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U9 K9 L9 T9 O8 G9 NL

AlicorporateUK

Brilliant - thank you.

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