Press room

New Route

On June 4, SAS will begin flying direct from Copenhagen to Tel Aviv. The route
is one of 28 that SAS is opening in 2012 and is in line with SAS's strategy of
strengthening its product offering to both business and leisure passengers.
 
"We are seeing increasing demand for routes to and from the Middle East. So we
are very pleased to now offer our customers the option of flying direct to Tel
Aviv all year round at competitive prices. Tel Aviv, which is on the
Mediterranean coast, is Israel's financial and commercial hub and is growing
fast," says Per Møller Jensen, Vice President Brand,
Marketing and EuroBonus.

Initially, there will be a departure from Copenhagen to Tel Aviv every Monday.
SAS will then be expanding capacity from July with an additional departure on
Thursday and from October 28 we are able to offer three departures a week. 

New destination - Shanghai

As of March 1 2012, SAS will open a new Copenhagen–Shanghai route, which will further improve the service between Scandinavia and the Chinese market. The demand for traffic to China is again growing significantly and is a complementary to the successful Copenhagen-Beijing and other Asian routes. In total SAS Cargo will offer cargo capacity to and from China on 18 weekly flights. The new route will be operated through five direct flights per week with an Airbus A340 offering around 20 tonnes of cargo capacity per flight.

Departures from Copenhagen on SK997 will be on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 18.25, arriving the following day in Shanghai at 11.35. Departures from Shanghai on SK998 will be at 13.25 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

 

SAS Cargo’s services to/from Asia

Copenhagen – Shanghai	5 flights per week
Copenhagen – Bangkok	6 flights per week
Copenhagen – Beijing	Daily
Copenhagen – Tokyo	Daily

SAS is Europe's most punctual airline for third year in a row

Scandinavian Airlines has officially been named Europe's most punctual airline,
for the third year in a row, by the independent source Flightstats. SAS was also
the world's third most punctual airline after Japanese airlines ANA and JAL. For
2011, 88.22% of all SAS flights arrived on time.
 
"We are very pleased to once again be named Europe's most punctual airline and
remain Europe's most reliable airline for the third year in a row. All our
employees, both on the ground and in the air, do their utmost every day to
ensure that every flight meet our customers' expectations and offer them the
most value for time and money. To also be the world's third most punctual major
airline really confirms that we are a world-class airline," says Rickard
Gustafson, CEO, Scandinavian Airlines.
 
Out of SAS' 239,320 flights in 2011, 208,972 arrived on time. The arrival
statistics for 2011 is also an improvement of 2010's punctuality of 86.47%. In
2009, SAS' punctuality record was 89.83% and in 2008 it was 83.92%
 
All data is provided by the independent source Flightstats. Flightstats track
the performance of over 150,000 flights per day, archive the data for analysis
and publication, and provide real time flight status to millions of travelers
worldwide each day. For more information about Flightstats, please visit
www.flightstats.com. SAS is included in the category major airlines.