Scandinavian Airline SAS Gets Good News — For Now — on Norwegian Route Changes


Skift Take

While Norwegian's decision to pull its long-haul routes out of Copenhagen and Stockholm is good news for SAS in the short term, it points to a bigger challenge in the long term.

Scandinavian airline group SAS is expecting a short term boost from rival Norwegian’s decision to pull a number of long-haul routes in the region. As part of a wider restructuring plan, Norwegian is ending flights from Copenhagen and Stockholm to the USA and Thailand. On some of these routes there is an overlap with SAS’s services. “I think it's in the short term, of course, a posit