SAS

Air France-KLM announced Friday that it will take a majority stake in Scandinavian Airlines, the national airline of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Scandinavian Airlines has reached a deal with Embraer for 45 E195-E2 aircraft, with purchase rights for an additional 10.

The airline, which serves as the flag carrier for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, will fly five times weekly between the two cities starting June 2, 2026. 

The closure of Russian airspace to Western carriers, combined with the closing of airspace due to armed conflicts in the Middle East, has made it much harder for Scandinavian airlines to travel to Asia.

For this flight, I would be flying in SAS business class to New York from its hub in Copenhagen, on board one of the carrier’s Airbus A321LRs. 

The carrier is the newest member of the SkyTeam alliance, joining on Sept. 1, and has recently been adding more routes to partner hubs.

Nuuk is slated to open a new airport next month and airlines are flocking to add new routes from Greenland’s capital city.

SAS and LOT will both pull out of the Chinese market by this year, citing difficult market conditions as competition heats up.

SAS has announced a resumption of service to Seattle. The announcement comes as the first of likely multiple new routes for the Scandinavian carrier.

Five months after the initial announcement, the carrier completed the deal in what CEO Anko Van der Werff called “a new era for SAS.”