Originally Posted by
OFFlyer
"Beijing governs much of China's economic and industrial development. We see that many of our customers often prefer Beijing as their gateway to China. We want to open all of Scandinavia to China and our future vision is that Beijing will become SAS's gateway to China, regardless of whether customers fly from Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen and regardless of their final destination," says Lars Lindgren, CEO Scandinavian Airlines International.
Lasse is either lying or stupid !
Sorry to say - but I can simply not see it any other way
SAS could not make DEL SIN PVG work and are having trouble with BKK why not leave to the Finns altogether and focus on the highly competitive transatlantic routes with low earnings
In all fairness to SAS, when SAS decided to pull out of DEL, only a handful of European carriers had the muscle to make it work and SAS's choice was to either mess around with their transatlantic customers and lose the premium cabin money that involved in exchange for coach cabin money and mostly empty (or mostly upgrades) in the premium cabins to DEL. Let's remember, back then India was not as hot with international business and tourists as it now is. [I've seen the evolution and was shocked in 2000-2002 that so many Americans and Europeans were afraid to play in India and get ahead of the curve. Now, I'm suggesting that the market there in export-oriented services is getting close to saturated or expensive to support and the mad rush just continues. And when I suggested Pakistan a couple of years back I got the same looks; now the move is that way too.]
What I do find interesting is that FinnAir makes things work while SAS doesn't on so many routes. Personally, that FinnAir gives me 100% miles makes my decision all the easier (as I'm not always a premium-cabin traveller).