New destinations from Stockholm Arlanda are Catania Sicily, Marseille, Naples and Reykjavik while Gothenburg Landvetter will gain a direct flight to Faro in Portugal.
SAS is continuing to strengthen its offer by opening 17 new direct routes from Scandinavia in summer 2019 and 6 totally new destinations – Catania, Florence, Marseille, Cornwall Newquay, Szczecin and Antalya. Tickets go on sale 9 October.
Demand for summer travel is increasing. SAS is therefore offering a number of new direct flights and destinations in summer 2019 and increasing frequency to several of the most popular travel hot spots. New destinations from Stockholm Arlanda are Catania Sicily, Marseille, Naples and Reykjavik while Gothenburg Landvetter will gain a direct flight to Faro in Portugal.
“Interest in travel continues to grow and I am delighted that we can not only offer a number of new destinations next summer but also increase our presence at some of the most popular designations for Scandinavians. We want more people to fly with us and discover the world, but with a smaller carbon footprint. To this end, SAS is striving to create sustainable travel, in the form of various initiatives such as biofuel, new aircraft with lower fuel consumption and emissions, and by reducing food waste and the use of plastics onboard,” says Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO, SAS.
Other exciting summer news is direct flights from Copenhagen to Cornwall Newquay. Poland also continues to attract visitors from Scandinavia and SAS is launching a direct route to Szczecin from Copenhagen.
SAS summer news – new destinations and direct flights:
- SAS summer news 2019 Sweden
From Stockholm: Marseille, Catania, Naples, Reykjavik. From Gothenburg: Faro - SAS summer news 2019 Norway
From Oslo: Faro and Antalya From Bergen: Nice, Alanya From Stavanger: Alanya - SAS summer news 2019 Denmark
From Copenhagen: Szczecin, Florence, Marseille, Catania, Cornwall Newquay. From Aarhus: Rome, Faro
Traffic figures – September 2018
- Total number of passengers increased by 3.3% to 2.9 million.
- Compared to the same month last year:
Total scheduled capacity (ASK) and traffic (RPK) increased by 2.4% and 4.8%, respectively.
Scheduled passenger load factor increased by 1.8 p.p. to 78.0%.
Nominal yield and PASK changed by +4.9% and +7.3%, respectively.
Currency adjusted yield and PASK changed by -2.6% and -0.4%, respectively.
Market and Capacity Development
The capacity growth in the Scandinavian market has been approximately 4-5% during 2018 vs. last year. Going forward the capacity growth is expected to accelerate even further during late fall and winter 2018/19.
After serving the high demand for leisure travel during the summer period, we have now fully adjusted capacity back to more business oriented routes.
In fiscal year 2017/18, SAS is increasing capacity (ASK) by around 1–2%. In fiscal year 2018/19, SAS’ indicative plan is to increase capacity (ASK) by around 1-3%, primarily due to more seats in the Airbus A320neo relative to the aircraft being replaced.
Scheduled Traffic Development
In September the number of passengers increased by 4.4%. SAS increased the scheduled capacity by 2.4% and the traffic increased by 4.8%, resulting in a 1.8 p.p. increase in the load factor.
Traffic on SAS’ intercontinental routes increased by 3.2%, even though capacity decreased by 1.3%. The traffic increase was similar on both Asian and US routes.
The traffic on SAS’ European / Intrascandinavian routes increased by 6.7%. The growth was similar across routes to/from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
The traffic on SAS’ domestic routes increased by 3.6%, while the capacity was up 1.5%, resulting in a higher passenger load factor. Both Norway and Sweden had increases in traffic, capacity and load factors on domestic routes.
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