Bloomberg article on SAS - can’t be good
Nov 8, 2019, 1:32 pm
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The number of full-time gates doesn't say a whole lot about how many flights and passengers an airline has at a given airport. Norwegian has way more flight movements at CPH than LH group airlines do.
Nov 8, 2019, 1:46 pm
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I'm not sure that is the case anymore. Norwegian have cut a lot of flights out of CPH during the last 6 months. There are days where they have no long haul flights in CPH at all. 6 months ago, they would have at least 2 long haul flights every day.
Nov 8, 2019, 1:54 pm
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And Norwegian has way more short-haul flights from CPH than LH group airlines, even as it's less of a difference than at this time last year. Either way, Scandinavian flight movements and passengers for LH group airlines are a much smaller fraction of the LH group business than such movements and passengers are for SK and DY.
Nov 8, 2019, 2:04 pm
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LH group has no scheduled long-haul passenger flights at CPH at all this year. And Norwegian has way more short-haul flights from CPH than LH group airlines, even as it's less of a difference than at this time last year. Either way, Scandinavian flight movements and passengers for LH group airlines are a much smaller fraction of the LH group business than such movements and passengers are for SK and DY.
And Norwegian has way more short-haul flights from CPH than LH group airlines, even as it's less of a difference than at this time last year. Either way, Scandinavian flight movements and passengers for LH group airlines are a much smaller fraction of the LH group business than such movements and passengers are for SK and DY.
Nov 8, 2019, 2:27 pm
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I know LH don't have any long haul out of CPH, but it's not just the long haul that DY have cut in CPH. A lot of the short hauls have been cut too. DY are serving more destinations out of CPH than the LH group, but I'm pretty sure the LH group have more flights and is moving more pax's on short haul in/out of CPH than DY at the moment. When you add the long haul, DY might move more pax's in/out of CPH, but not if you look at short haul alone.
Nov 8, 2019, 3:49 pm
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Norwegian is indeed a fraction of what it was 12 months ago at CPH, while LH group goes from strength to strength in serving CPH, but the point really is that LH group isn’t as heavily dependent on Scandinavian traffic for its financial performance as SAS or Norwegian is and thus it’s not as objective to use LH financials as the basis for applauding SAS as to use DY.
Nov 8, 2019, 4:01 pm
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It is when we look at the LH group in/out of Scandinavia. But we can also just look at the number of pax's which goes through the airports, and here SK have higher growth than the airports, meaning they are taking pax's from the other airlines. DY have lost a number of pax's but it's not just from here SK is getting there growth.
”When the Swedish housing market is “too” frothy/expensive for most of the remaining wannabe buyers of their own place (sort of), there tends to be some leftover money to be spent on travel and other entertainment. When the bulk of the Scandinavian labor market is tight, the employed may have way more money to speed on travel and entertainment, more so when housing affordability isn’t increasing big time anytime soon and so there is even more of the mentality of “live/spend for today because the welfare state’s safety net has us anyway and that dream home is nowhere near now.””
And DY’s retreat — and even Thomas Cook’s problems — have also been to SAS’s benefit (and DY’s in a way).
The measure of SK’s performance and the sustainability of performance are best measured once it has had a major recession as its stress test. Looking good when times are sort of great in one’s home market doesn’t require all that much business acumen, especially not when the other major home market competitor has been on a major retreat.
Nov 9, 2019, 2:06 am
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The DY troubles were omni present in July too, in fact they are doing (or atleast giving the impression of doing) a bit better in Q3, so that can't be it. TCook going bk can't be such a big factor in the nordics... the cooling down of world markets will rather intensify the longhaul business as people are not willing to fly for even 3000 SEK to the US to pay the fuel bill...? That SK will get low operating cost A359 this year is no news either.
Nov 9, 2019, 4:59 am
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SK’s improved growth and performance and DY’s better performance is largely explained by this:
”When the Swedish housing market is “too” frothy/expensive for most of the remaining wannabe buyers of their own place (sort of), there tends to be some leftover money to be spent on travel and other entertainment. When the bulk of the Scandinavian labor market is tight, the employed may have way more money to speed on travel and entertainment, more so when housing affordability isn’t increasing big time anytime soon and so there is even more of the mentality of “live/spend for today because the welfare state’s safety net has us anyway and that dream home is nowhere near now.””
And DY’s retreat — and even Thomas Cook’s problems — have also been to SAS’s benefit (and DY’s in a way).
The measure of SK’s performance and the sustainability of performance are best measured once it has had a major recession as its stress test. Looking good when times are sort of great in one’s home market doesn’t require all that much business acumen, especially not when the other major home market competitor has been on a major retreat.
”When the Swedish housing market is “too” frothy/expensive for most of the remaining wannabe buyers of their own place (sort of), there tends to be some leftover money to be spent on travel and other entertainment. When the bulk of the Scandinavian labor market is tight, the employed may have way more money to speed on travel and entertainment, more so when housing affordability isn’t increasing big time anytime soon and so there is even more of the mentality of “live/spend for today because the welfare state’s safety net has us anyway and that dream home is nowhere near now.””
And DY’s retreat — and even Thomas Cook’s problems — have also been to SAS’s benefit (and DY’s in a way).
The measure of SK’s performance and the sustainability of performance are best measured once it has had a major recession as its stress test. Looking good when times are sort of great in one’s home market doesn’t require all that much business acumen, especially not when the other major home market competitor has been on a major retreat.
Nov 9, 2019, 6:05 am
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I get it that some want people to believe or sell the narrative that SAS has done something truly extraordinary in recent months, but I’m not one to buy or sell such marketing hype.
Nov 9, 2019, 6:09 am
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The DY troubles were omni present in July too, in fact they are doing (or atleast giving the impression of doing) a bit better in Q3, so that can't be it. TCook going bk can't be such a big factor in the nordics... the cooling down of world markets will rather intensify the longhaul business as people are not willing to fly for even 3000 SEK to the US to pay the fuel bill...? That SK will get low operating cost A359 this year is no news either.
The primary Swedish stock exchange index has done rather well this year, and has been up c 25% YTD. SAS hasn’t outperformed that by any substantial multiple during the same period and has underperformed that index’s performance. For the July-to-date picture, SAS has done fine in terms of its stock price.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/OMXSTO-SAS/
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Nov 9, 2019, 7:27 am
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The primary Swedish stock exchange index has done rather well this year, and has been up c 25% YTD. SAS hasn’t outperformed that by any substantial multiple during the same period and has underperformed that index’s performance. For the July-to-date picture, SAS has done fine in terms of its stock price.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/OMXSTO-SAS/
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/OMXSTO-SAS/
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Nov 10, 2019, 4:16 am
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The Scandinavian Thomas Cook companies are run profitably, and will continue to operate independently, under new ownership. There was some unrest and cancelled flights for a couple of days when TC went bankrupt, even some TC-passengers booked on joint SK-operated charters were denied booking. The TC debacle was quickly over here, and should really not affect SK earnings significantly.
Nov 10, 2019, 5:53 am
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The Scandinavian Thomas Cook companies are run profitably, and will continue to operate independently, under new ownership. There was some unrest and cancelled flights for a couple of days when TC went bankrupt, even some TC-passengers booked on joint SK-operated charters were denied booking. The TC debacle was quickly over here, and should really not affect SK earnings significantly.
Nov 10, 2019, 10:10 am
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The economic growth rates in SAS’s home countries seem to be dropping a bit. So that could mean one slight headwind against SAS. But as what are often taken as leading economic indicators, the stock prices don’t really seem to reflect much of that, so maybe the good times for SAS and Norwegian are not dead on arrival and just getting started?