SAS - Scandinavian Airlines

[lbaspotter]

Its good to see that the Yorkshire Post & Evening Post were supporting there local airport for once!

 

[SNOWMAN]

hi lba787
any news re the pax figures on tonights S.A.S. flight
regards
sm1

 

[Aviador]

I can't believe nobody has managed to get a photo of the aircraft yet.

 

[ChurchFenton]

Noticed quite a bit of promotional stuff around LBA for the new SAS service. Even the landside Travelex desk has a notice on the counter for a promotional rate on Danish Krona! Fingers crossed for it becoming a success, booked on twice in the coming months.

 

[LBA787]

Does anyone know how loads have been ? Is the route selling well?

Last Fridays LBA-CPH about 30 pax.
Last Mondays LBA-CPH 45 pax I think.

Not bad but need to improve. Having said that I expect the figures to rise as the summer progresses.

:crazy:

 

[Aviador]

Thanks for the reply. As you say not bad - the return is approx 50% load factor and hopefully if the pricing is right there will be a decent yield.

If prices have been high from the onset they should be achieving a good yield already with a 50% load factor?

 

[ChurchFenton]

Flightradar showing tonight's inbound as being CRJ-200 OY-RJK.

 

[SNOWMAN]

morning all
has anyone any updates on the SAS flights,pax in & out? it seams to have gone quite.
regards
sm1

 

[Aviador]

Well I guess we'll be able to get the figures for the month on the CAA stats if they're available.

 

[SNOWMAN]

hi aviador
looked at the figures and the only showed the first rotation,i just wondered if any one like yourself had any more up to-date news on how the route was performing.
regards
sm1

 

[SNOWMAN]

hi LBAspotter
thanks for the info ref the S.A.S. flight could be better but also could be a lot worse lets hope the yield is ok for sas and hope it leeds to a better service. :drinks:
regards
sm1

 

[lbaspotter]

Flight radar has CRJ900, OY-FKC operating today's SAS1543 on the approach now.

 

[jason1-11]

Had a friend fly to Billund from Heathrow via Manchester yesterday. The Dornier 328 aircraft was full with a large number sporting Arla logo’s on clothing, bags etc.

As their UK HQ is in Leeds, I wonder if SAS could tap into this market via Copenhagen or if the convenience of flying direct to Billund from Manchester out weights it.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Having done both, its actually much easier to go to Man and fly to Billund. It takes several hours to drive from Copenhagen as the roads are not that good. Having said that there's hardly any traffic on roads in Denmark. Some friends of mine use the flight (Sun Air) from MAN regularly and it always seems to have good load factors. IThey always use Avios for their flights as its not a cheap route.

 

[a300boy]

My old company operated a flight between Copenhagen and Billund to transport the parcels due to poor road connections after initially dropping Billund as a destination and trying truck transport to Copenhagen.
Same situation exists between Helsinki and Tampere in Finland which is not much distance but difficult by road.

 

[lbaspotter]

Not looking good! As this evenings SAS1543/1544 Copenhagen service has just been cancelled for some reason...

 

[Seasider]

They will have lost the passengers that were returning on Monday's flight as well. Passengers are not going to be happy.
I believe it has been operated by a CR2 for the last 2 Fridays so numbers must be less than 50.
I agree with LBASpotter, it does not bode well.

 

[stevolba]

Don't get the wrong idea about the cancelation, it was due to lack of crew not lack of passengers

 

[lbaspotter]

Don't get the wrong idea about the cancelation, it was due to lack of crew not lack of passengers

Oh well never mind if that's the reason why yesterday flight was cancelled. I suppose the Leeds service was picked due to the low passenger number of the CRJ and ease of transferring them all on to the Manchester's A320/B737's service?

At least the pax got there first taste of the fills of been disrupted and joys of a coach ride to Manchester!

 

[bianchi016]

First post for me-the Copenhagen flights are as far as I can tell doing surprisingly well considering a two times a week service. The highest I've seen to date is over 60 and they are often in the 30's and 40's. In my mind a positive start