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Since last summer, anyone flying with SAS can opt to buy biofuel, which reduces climate-affecting carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80 percent.

“We are incredibly proud of the national cross-country team’s decision to buy biofuel. We are constantly developing more sustainable products and services, and one way of contributing to this is to offer the opportunity to buy biofuel. So it’s great that the Swedish skiers want to be part of the transition to a more sustainable way of traveling. Hopefully, more will be inspired to follow their example,” says Karl Sandlund EVP & Chief Commercial Officer, SAS.

SAS doesn’t make any profit on the fuel bought by customers like the Swedish cross-country team and it is added to the biofuel already bought by SAS.

“For the Swedish Ski Association, sustainability is a natural part of its activities. We aim to offer good sporting environments with a healthy financial situation and we want to use natural resources in a responsible and effective way so as not to put our climate and opportunities for future generations at risk. Together with our partners, we want to do our best to minimize our footprint and set an example in sustainable travel, which is why we’re delighted to be able to take steps together with SAS toward more sustainable travel,” says Ola Strömberg, Association Director and acting head of the cross-country team at the Swedish Ski Association.

The increased use of biofuel is a prerequisite for more sustainable flights and for SAS to be able to achieve its objective of cutting climate-affecting carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2030.

SAS works in various ways to promote the large-scale production of sustainable biofuel in Scandinavia.

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As part of the partnership with the three Scandinavian Olympic committees DIF, NIF and SOK, SAS launched the Future Olympians campaign last August, with the aim of finding three Scandinavian youth teams from the worlds of basketball, athletics and karate to join in an exchange program with local sportsmen and women in Tokyo.

It has now been announced that there will be the Swedish team Malbas from Malmö, who will be representing basketball, the Danish club AKD Karate from Allerød, who will be representing karate, and the Norwegian team IL Tyrving from Bærum, who will be representing athletics.

“We received an unbelievably good response from youth teams right across Scandinavia, who all showed enormous commitment. We are now looking to send the selected teams and and athletes to Tokyo to experience the Olympic village together with local athletes,” says Karl Sandlund, EVP & Chief Commercial Officer at SAS.

For a week in November, the teams will train together with young Japanese men and women in basketball, athletics and karate.

“The teams were selected based on an overall assessment. Key criteria were sporting performance and ambition, together with the motivation for taking part. The teams demonstrate a huge love for sport as well as good social kinship. These are young people who we both cheer on and want to get to know better,” says Karl Sandlund, EVP & Chief Commercial Officer.

The Japanese teams who will play host to their Swedish, Norwegian and Danish colleagues have themselves been successful in basketball, athletics and karate, and are all from Tokyo. The teams have been selected as part of the Olympic partnership between SAS and the Scandinavian Olympic committees.

The project is part of SAS’ crossborder partnership with the three Scandinavian Olympic committees and means, among other things, that SAS is the main partner for the Scandinavian Olympic committees ahead of and during the Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2020 and Winter Olympics in Peking 2022.

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Bardufoss, which is just an hour’s drive from beautiful Senja island, is surrounded by stunning countryside, often described as Norway in miniature. It offers fantastic skiing opportunities in winter, and spectacular mountain hiking in the summer season. Norway’s national waterfall, Målselvfossen, offers great fishing, and you can visit Northern Europe’s longest salmon run, Polar Zoo, and take an invigorating dip at Polarbadet water park in characteristic Målselv mountain village.

Copyright Photo: Gunter Mayer.

The flights to Bardufoss will start on February 1, 2020, with 140-180 seater Boeing 737, and from next autumn, the market’s most environmentally-friendly aircraft for short and medium distances, the Airbus A320 neo, will be phased in on the Norwegian route network, thus further improving the quality of its flight offerings.

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The contract with the Norwegian Armed Forces covers over 350,000 flights per year, a significant contribution to the number of passengers transported by SAS in Norway. This also means that SAS will return to Bardufoss Airport with three daily departures from the civilian sector of the Royal Norwegian Air Force’s Bardufoss Air Station in Troms.

“We are delighted that the Norwegian Armed Forces have chosen SAS as their carrier of choice for the proud men and women in the military service. We are particularly pleased that the decision was made based on SAS delivering the best proposal on all criteria,” says Torbjørn Wist, Chief Financial Officer of SAS

The contract has a four-year duration, which will also lead to additional SAS flights to routes such as Oslo to Bergen, Trondheim, Bodø and Evenes, which will help boost passenger volumes.

The contract comes into force on February 1, 2020, and SAS will start to phase in the Airbus A320neo, the most environment friendly aircraft on the market, into the Norwegian route network in the autumn.

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For summer 2020, SAS is offering new direct routes and destinations, as well as increasing the frequency of flights to some of the most popular destinations around southern Europe, around the Mediterranean.

The exciting summer additions from Copenhagen are Bari in Italy, Tivat in Montenegro and Zadar in Croatia – all three of these holiday gems being in the Adriatic – great for those who love the water as well as picturesque, historical surroundings. A fourth new destination from the Danish capital is the classic holiday resort of Rhodes in Greece.

At the same time, Spain is continuing to attract holidaymakers from Scandinavia, so SAS is starting a direct route from Oslo to Valencia. The interest in Spain is also continuing to grow in Denmark and Aarhus, and SAS is increasing the number of flights to Malaga, Palma (Majorca) and Alicante.

From Stockholm, SAS is increasing its frequency of flights and extending its season to Beirut, in response to demand from the many passengers who have discovered the city or who have an affiliation with the region. Luxembourg’s timetable from Arlanda is also expanding with more departures, making it a year-round destination.

The route from Oslo to Kyiv, Ukraine, which was introduced for autumn 2019, will also be continuing over the summer period, making it now a year-round direct route. The connections eastbound from Denmark are also improving when the flights from Copenhagen to Russian Sankt Petersburg start to operate again.

Many of the new routes will be served by Airbus 320neo, the market’s most fuel-efficient aircraft.

SAS summer additions – new destinations and direct routes:

SAS summer additions 2020 Sweden
From Stockholm:
Expanded and extended timetable to Beirut, in Lebanon.
The Luxembourg route is becoming a new year-round destination.

SAS summer additions 2020 Denmark
From Copenhagen:
Bari in Italy, Rhodes in Greece, Tivat in Montenegro, Zadar in Croatia.
From Aarhus:
SAS is launching new routes to Alicante in Spain and Chania on Crete in Greece, while also expanding its offering to Malaga and Palma (Majorca) in Spain.

SAS summer additions 2020 Norway
From Oslo:
Valencia in Spain.
The route from Oslo to Kyiv is becoming a new year-round destination.Bergen:
New route to Bergen from Barcelona.Haugesund:
New route from Haugesund to Copenhagen.

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Implemented alongside an extensive fleet renewal, SAS presents a modern and new upgrade of its livery design.

Following new SAS cabin and onboard concepts introduced in 2015, the new livery launched today fulfills an ambition to align the exterior and interior of SAS.

“The new livery design is a symbol of our future, a more sustainable and competitive future for SAS, but one that also embraces our heritage. Travelers from Scandinavia will recognize their home, while global travelers will encounter the renowned feeling of the Nordics,” says Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO at SAS.

Customer analysis shows that travelers are proud to be part of the SAS community and that the unique blue color, which has become SAS’ signature, together with the logo, are among the strongest elements when travelers highlight their feelings towards the SAS brand.

In this spirit, the new livery embraces this unique relationship by extending the blue color of the tail further down the fuselage and by adding a new big silver SAS logo to the front of the aircraft.

“Crucial to the successful relationship with our travelers, is the thousands of SAS employees who provide passengers with top class travel experiences and service every day. They are the face of our brand and their commitment is key to a more sustainable and competitive future,” Rickard Gustafson says.

The roll-out of the new SAS livery will follow the normal maintenance program of the aircraft, meaning the existing fleet will be updated with the new livery in accordance to an already scheduled repaint process each 5-6 years. All SAS aircraft will feature the new livery by 2024.

SAS has chosen an advanced coating material, provided by AkzoNobel, allowing fewer layers of color to be added. This reduces the weight of the aircraft significantly and translates into fuel savings as well as reduced CO2 emissions. Furthermore, the paint contains less toxins than conventional paint systems, while the increased durability allows for longer intervals between complete repaints.

The new Airbus A350 and A320neo, the market’s most modern and fuel-efficient aircraft, will be among the first to feature the new livery. In total, as a part the modernization of the short and long-haul fleet, SAS will take delivery of new Airbus A320neo (80), Airbus A330 Enhanced (5), Airbus A350 (8), and Airbus A321LR (3) aircraft before the end of 2023.

The new SAS livery features several updates, including:

•  The previous grey color used on the fuselage has been updated to a fresher shade of grey.
•  A big proud and confident SAS logo has been placed at the front of the plane, in a silver grey tone.
•  Analysis and customer feedback showed that the unique SAS blue color is strongly recognized by the community of SAS travelers. The new SAS livery embraces this unique relation between SAS and true travelers by enhancing and extending the blue color of the tail further down the belly of the plane.
•  The earlier red engines have now been turned into silver grey and dressed with SAS blue crowns to harmonize with the SAS current visual identity, and to also embrace the connection to the SAS blue for SAS true travelers.
•  The word mark “Scandinavian” is still located on the engines, but it is now in dark grey, in order to provide sufficient contrast to the light grey and silver color of the fuselage and to flirt with the SAS interior design color scheme.
•  The word “Scandinavian” has also been largely and proudly placed under the plane on the belly as a symbol for SAS’s Scandinavian heritage and for clear visual identification from the ground.
•  The Scandinavian heritage is also shown in the three Scandinavian flags that have been updated in a modern, elegant way.

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SAS is now launching a new ancillary product that gives travelers the option to reduce their climate impact. This means that travelers can purchase biofuel when booking a ticket, or at any time before departure.

Biofuel, which reduces climate-affecting CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent compared to conventional jet fuel, is a key enabler to make flying more sustainable and reach SAS’ target to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent by 2030. SAS is pushing for large-scale production of advanced biofuel in Scandinavia. The volumes being produced today are not enough and the price is 3-4 times higher than for conventional jet fuel.

SAS makes no profit on the contribution from travelers and it will be added to the biofuels already purchased by SAS.

Facts about SAS and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (biofuel)

SAS only uses biofuel made from sources not affecting the availability of crops used in food production, access to potable water, biodiversity, and that use as small an area of land as possible.
Biofuel is delivered to SAS at the hubs in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen, or at a suitable airport as close as possible to the production facility. Legislation allows for up to 50 percent of biofuel to be used per flight. All SAS aircrafts are certified to be able to mix 50/50 fossil jet fuel and biofuel.

SAS continuously collaborates with various stakeholders to promote, commercialize and implement biofuels. In 2018, SAS and Preem signed an agreement to jointly ensure the large-scale production of biofuel.

This is how the new service works

SAS has created a model where travelers can purchase biofuel corresponding to 20-minute blocks of flight time for one passenger. On a 60-minute flight, one 20-minute block of biofuel will correspond to a third of the average fuel consumption per passenger, based on an average flight. For example, to buy extra biofuel for a ticket on a 60-minute flight, a traveler would have to purchase three blocks to cover the full flight time.

Travelers can buy biofuel when booking flight tickets, or at any other time before departure under ‘My bookings’. The amount of biofuel will not necessarily be used on the actual flight the traveler has bought a ticket for, but it will be used to replace fossil jet fuel to the equivalent amount in SAS’ operations.

Currently (Sept 2019), prices are set at 10 USD/ 10 EUR per block of biofuel.

SAS will fly the route to Seville with the new Airbus A320neo aircraft.

Seville becomes the sixth destination for SAS in Spain from Sweden along with Alicante, Barcelona, ​​Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca and Malaga.

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