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Despite a flurry of worried phone calls from travellers, ticket sales for Scandinavian airline SAS continued to sell on Tuesday as many passengers ignored the airline’s current financial turbulence.
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I sincerely hope that SAS makes it through the current hard times. It will be a significant blow to the Scandinavian economy as a whole if it where to disappear. Not for the airline disappearing but general connectivity to and from Scandinavia from the rest of the world. This will affect all businesses. SAS disappearing would also instantly mean that all relevant longhaul flights to Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo disappear.
I'm surprised that the various governments aren't stepping up their game to protect SAS better. The Scandinavian market is to small for the level of airline competition we see today, so instead of having a healthy large airline with proper connectivity and travel options for both business and leisure, we now have a number of non-profitable airlines trying to compete on to little business to be able to put down a proper product and proper connectivity.
As a very frequent traveler I'm not looking forward to find myself making more transfers in Amsterdam, Frankfurt or London (don't even bother with Paris) and their horribly congested airspace and incompetent airport staff.