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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?


Contents

[edit] Cabin section


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

[edit] 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

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

[edit] Redirect

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] SAS Related Trivia

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)