SAS is launching 45 new routes for 2013 as well as increasing the frequency of many domestic and European routes.
The move follows the Scandinavian airline winning union backing for cost-cutting proposals that could secure the airline’s long-term future as it struggles to compete with low-cost rivals.
SAS, which is half-owned by the governments of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, said eight unions had agreed pay cuts and changes to working schedules and pensions, see previous story.
Sweden’s new routes are from Stockholm to Innsbruck, Pula, Palermo, Cagliari, Thessaloniki, Tel Aviv, Pristina and Alanya and from Gothenburg to Nice, Pristina and Östersund.
New routes from Norway are from Oslo to Salzburg, Berlin, Budapest, Santorini, Cagliari, Palermo, Pristina, Valencia, Malta, Lisbon, Athens, Tenerife and Pula, from Bergen to Dubrovnik and Antalya, from Trondheim to Split and from Stavanger to Antalya.
Denmark has new routes from Copenhagen to San Francisco, Budapest, Prague, Newcastle, Cagliari, Palermo, Alanya, Thessaloniki, Pula and Biarritz.
Finland’s new routes are from Helsinki to Paris, Rome, Prague, Geneva and Östersund, from Turku to Kittilä and from Tampere to Kittilä.
These new routes will be sold successively from today.
