Talk:Scandinavian Airlines

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Scandinavian Airlines + SAS Braathens ???

We should decide if we should include SAS Braathens in this article or not, we can't mention it everywere except in the fleet details, or can we? Ardfern took the fleet details for SAS Braathens away, should we keep it like that and remove other information about SAS Braathens or include the fleet details about SAS Braathen?

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Cabin section

This section reads like a sales brochure...with excessive detail. Suggest greatly condensing this section.

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Company Name

The official company name taken from the register of corporations

SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM DENMARK NORWAY SWEDEN SAS

That's what I always thought too. But check the company website - it uses the singular. Did they change it? Or have I been wrong all these years? Tannin

It’s always been this way. It’s a functional name — SAS is the Scandinavian airlines system. That’s what it was meant to do when founded — unite the national carriers to form a single system that would be able to compete in the global market. A plurar here just wouldn’t make any sense. Markonen

The confusion is great; I think the web has significantly more "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEMS" than "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM". There even seems to be a Swedish law that is targetted at SAS using "SYSTEMS".

Google: 10200 results for "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM", 857 results for "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEMS". Markonen

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At present the entry merely deals with the "Scandinavian Airlines" part of SAS, which makes up roughly half of the businesses for the whole corporation. The other activities should probably be included here rather than splitting it on separate entries, which would definately lead to naming issues. The subsidiary airlines are to some extent already mentioned and should survive as such but the hotels and other activities ought also to be mentioned. -- Mic

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However, SAS itself only uses the name "Scandinavian Airlines" - NOT "Scandinavian Airlines System", which hasn't been used for years. Therefore, e g the entire article should be renamed. Dissimilation (talk) 17:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirect

Someone, make, please a redirect to this page in "SAS (airline)" page. - 84.250.25.157 22:10, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Oslo

I do find iut strange that "Oslo" is not listed as a hub, but a "focus city".

Why is that? SAS Braathens operate many flights from Oslo, and I don't think there are any fewer flight from Oslo than it is from Stockholm.

Answer to the Oslo question

I now why Oslo isnt a hub, thats because SAS has 31 international destinations (and more daily international departures) from Stockholm than Oslo. (Oslo has 21 international destinations, most of them are served once or twice a week). But your right about the amount of flights from Oslo, Oslo has even some more passenger than Stockholm, but most of them are domestic or transfer flights to ARN or CPH. And Oslo does not have any intercontinental flights.

Oslo=hub

I've changed the page to include Oslo to a hub. Scandinavian Airlines itself defines Oslo as an international hub in their destination map. (See the inflight magazine Scanorama). It would be strange to use other definations than the ones that SAS use.--217.118.49.189 20:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)HRE

Focus city v. hub

As I recall, Copenhagen is the company's hub with most of the international connecting flights going through CPH, while both ARN and OSL serving as "national hubs". Most flights from Europe to Norway go through OSL, and the same with Europe to Sweden.80.161.77.36 09:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Internal LInks

This article is definately "over-linked". It is not absolutely neccessary to link every single date and place! I'm sure the time would be better spent improving more deserving articles. TinyMark 09:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

SAS Related Trivia

Probably not notable enough to be included in the main article, but of interest to SAS buffs

Who/where did the condiment packet copy come from?

I came across some SAS condiment packets recently, austentiably from the late nineties. They have the following unusual sayings on them

• The colour of snow. The taste of tears. The enormity of oceans.
• As sugar dissolves, it spreads happiness
• Pepper," it said, "has been called the gift of the East, though 'gift' means poison in Swedish, don't let that put you off."

Does anyone know where they came from, when they were introduced and whether they remain as part of the cabin service?

Thoglette (talk) 10:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Meaning of name

You people might find it amusing that the word SAS means eagle in Hungarian. Quite appropriate for an airline company. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.44.73 (talk) 21:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

• But it doesn't belong in the article, unless there is proof that this influenced the naming of the airline. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

"Core SAS"

I just removed the IATA code "BU" from the listing in the article, as the code has not been used for some time (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_codes). Flights using the ICAO code "CNO" will have an SK code on the passenger ticket, as well as bags, ect. Also, there are reports that use of the ICAO code "CNO" (along with the callsign "SCANOR") will be discontinued from October 1st 2009. Allthough I consider the sources reasonably reliable, I haven't found sources that would be acceptable for a change of this article, allthough SAS is going rather heavily on about "Core SAS". Gunnar Seljeseth (talk) 02:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Hiiden Advertisment?

Although not direct, it nearly appears that the first paragraph is fishing for customers. Also of interest is the lack of mention SAS economic problems and competition. Strange....

Yes, this article used to contain information about SAS's financial problems and how they receive massive state subsidy from Scandinavian governments. Strangely, it seems to have disappeared. 85.24.188.244 (talk) 11:41, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

SAS Fleet

I have adjusted the fleet numbers considerably, to accurately reflect the number of in service aircraft. In service aircraft are aircraft that the company is actively using for revenue generation, and should not include aircraft in storage. As an example, SAS has not used OY-KBM (A340) since end of July 2009, when CPH-SEA was cancelled.Lbc71 (talk) 10:17, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Standard of notability for Incidents and Accidents: compare f.e. Lufthansa

I just checked out this SAS page - and the Incidents and Accidents section needs improvement. Specifically, here the incidents involving the Bombardier Dash 7, gets loads of attention which I believe is unwarranted since they were not hull loss accidents and involved no injuries nor casualties.

Being a scandinavian myself, and having read scandinavian tabloids during through these last ten years, I can see why. These incidents received A LOT of attention in the tabloids - and other media - at the time. So I acknowledge that they probably rise to the level of notable, given wikipedias defined standard.

My issue is that if you look at other airline pages - specifically the Lufthansa one, which I'm familiar with - they generally only list hull loss incidents; and these incidents, while certainly being distressing for the passengers on the flights, were not hull loss incidents, and no-one got killed. (Did anyone even get injured?)

So, my point is basically that in the context of big league international airlines these incidents are dimes a dosen, and not given this much space on other carriers pages. Actually, the only reason they're given so much space here is because the dash-7 incidents got so much attention in tabloids.

Bottom line: my proposal is to limit the "Incidents and Accidents" section to hull loss accidents. Stuff about the dash-7 should get it's own wikipedia page. It could get a link from either the SAS page or the Bombardier page - or maybe from both. It is a media controversy, and b/o that if nothing else, I guess it's notable. I just think there's a user value to be found in consistent standards in information presented between different carriers wikipedia pages, and that's getting the short end of the stick presently...

RandySpears —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.178.95.169 (talk) 21:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok, having received no responses I will briefly summarize the Dash incidents under one bullet point and link to the existing page that deals exclusively with those incidents...

RandySpears

Images

...of the SAS global headquarters in Stockholm are now available here: File:SAS koncernbyggnad 2006.jpg and more here: sv:SAS_koncernbyggnad. /Urbourbo (talk) 09:40, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

A lot of historical photos available

If you refer to commons:Category:Photos by Lars Söderström and its associated template, there are many historical photos of SAS available for uploading (to Commons not to local WP projects) - Caravelles, BAC 1-111s, DC-7, 747s, etc, etc. Feel free to upload images as noted on the template and in the category. Cheers --Russavia ^{Let's dialogue} 18:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Info about HQ move

Affärsvärlden - June 2007

Moving HQ in order to increase profits and reduce costs

September 2007 article of e24

Mats Jansson reveals the plans

Dagens Industri - this February 2010 article

Scheduled to take place in Autumn 2010

e24 - February 2010 article

Says old HQ was too large

Thanks to User:Jonkerz for finding these! WhisperToMe (talk) 21:57, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

why is tlv missing from destnation map?

why is tlv missing from destnation map? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.232.127 (talk) 16:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)