COPENHAGEN – Confronted with heavy losses, Scandinavian Airlines has implemented an austerity plan to ensure its survival.
Its operational units (SAS Denmark, Norway, Sweden and International) are being integrated into one management unit.
It will reduce its work force to 14,500 employees and will retire
18 aircraft from its fleet.
Total capacity systemwide will contract up to 18 percent.
According to Hakan Olsson SAS director and general manager for Southeast Asia, two Airbus A340s in the long haul network will be taken out of the fleet.
The airline has reviewed its intercontinental network and has stopped its Copenhagen-Delhi service. t also plans to withdraw its Stockholm-Beijing and Copenhagen-Seattle services.
Furthermore, it is likely it will not offer a winter service between Stockholm and Bangkok.
Finnair, meanwhile, is looking at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam and the Philippines as possible new destinations for services to Asia.
The airline currently serves 10 Asian destinations, after axing its Guangzhou route last year.
Source: ITB Berlin
