SAS MD80 on sale
Mar 11, 2010, 7:40 am
#2
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Programs: SK*(LT)G, AY
Posts: 153
They want to keep others (from 4.01 press release, sasgrup.net):
"After the transaction the SAS Group will have 24 MD-80's in operation out of a total of 191 Aircraft. The remaining MD-80 Aircraft are intended to be kept in SAS operation as inexpensive reliable Aircraft, as well as Aircraft to manage the seasonality effect in the Nordic region."
"After the transaction the SAS Group will have 24 MD-80's in operation out of a total of 191 Aircraft. The remaining MD-80 Aircraft are intended to be kept in SAS operation as inexpensive reliable Aircraft, as well as Aircraft to manage the seasonality effect in the Nordic region."
Mar 11, 2010, 10:22 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Sweden
Programs: SK Eurobonus
Posts: 162
This was announced a couple of months ago! They are selling 18 they have in storage (mostly in France). The first 4 MD82 have already been delivered!
The deal is for 13 MD82 and 5 MD87s and is worth around 200M SEK. The MD87s will leave the fleet for good later this spring when the last 2 goes to City Airline in Gothenburg.
The remaining MDs should be in service until 2014-2015
The deal is for 13 MD82 and 5 MD87s and is worth around 200M SEK. The MD87s will leave the fleet for good later this spring when the last 2 goes to City Airline in Gothenburg.
The remaining MDs should be in service until 2014-2015
Mar 11, 2010, 11:35 am
#5
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Programs: AY Lumo, FB Gold
Posts: 1,667
Shame the MD-90 and B717 didn't sell, as they are basically just modernized versions of the same great design. I'd take them any day over a boring narrow body Boeing or Airbus.
Mar 11, 2010, 2:02 pm
#6
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Denmark, SK*G ( EBD), BA (silver), FB (Silver)
Posts: 489
I agree the worst aircraft are the 737-800 - impossible legspace even up front...
Far prefer MD-80's usually operated by SAS Denmark, which also serves coke zero (unlike the swedish operated flights)^
Far prefer MD-80's usually operated by SAS Denmark, which also serves coke zero (unlike the swedish operated flights)^
Mar 12, 2010, 2:20 am
#8
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: OSL, EWR, CPH
Programs: Hilton Diamond SAS EBG (Star Alliance Gold), CO (OnePass) Gold
Posts: 211
Mar 12, 2010, 6:42 am
#9
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: LLA
Programs: EB*G
Posts: 137
It's really a shame to see the MD-80s disappearing - the best intra-European flight experience in my mind, especially domestic Sweden where you normally can end up in any of the front rows without paying business class prices.
Mar 14, 2010, 1:41 pm
#12
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Oslo
Programs: EB*G, BD*G, HH Silver, FB, AA, SPG, Hertz #1 Gold
Posts: 1,056
Mar 14, 2010, 3:23 pm
#13
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Lidköping, Sweden
Programs: SK EBS
Posts: 148
Mar 15, 2010, 5:12 am
#14
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Switzerland
Programs: AY Plat (OWE), Bonvoy Gold, ALL Silver
Posts: 3,038
I find the -600 and -700 versions the worst, for sure! Many of the -800s have nice new slim seats which improve the pitch and feel wider. Also, the exit row seats on the -800s are great! The new 737-800s with winglets are also still feeling brand new and fresh, which you can't say about the -600s.
So far Rynkarii (I believe some of my Finnish colleagues call the airline) have over 183 of them in route so there could be something on the subject
Anyway, IMO the B737 is not what it used to be, and I'll take a MD80 anyday over these horrible 737's
Mar 15, 2010, 3:44 pm
#15
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Germany
Programs: M&M, EB
Posts: 61
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http://www.luftfartsstyrelsen.se/tem...____35109.aspx
Anyone with an idea what SAS plans to do with these 717?
