SAS (Scandinavian Airways) will add Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) to its map subsequent summer time because it builds connections with its new SkyTeam Alliance accomplice, Delta Air Traces.
The airline, which solely joined SkyTeam on Sept. 1, plans 5 weekly flights between its Copenhagen Airport (CPH) hub and SEA from Could 21, 2025, SAS mentioned Tuesday. It has not mentioned whether or not the route shall be flown with an Airbus A330 or A350, the provider’s two wide-body plane sorts.
SAS additionally teased that it’ll announce extra new routes for subsequent summer time quickly.
“The route from Copenhagen will present extra journey choices for our clients and strengthen the connection between Scandinavia and the Pacific Northwest,” Anko van der Werff, CEO of SAS, mentioned in an announcement.
SAS final served Seattle in 2009 with a nonstop from Copenhagen, in accordance with Cirium Diio schedules.
“Seattle has been a extremely requested vacation spot by our clients, and we’re excited to answer their wants by launching this route. Moreover, Seattle’s rising cargo operations make this enlargement much more strategically priceless,” van der Werff added.
Unmentioned is the truth that Seattle is a hub for SkyTeam and codeshare accomplice Delta. This gives SAS flyers with simple onward connections to cities like Anchorage; Portland, Oregon; and Spokane, Washington.
The U.S. Division of Transportation signed off on the airways’ codeshare settlement on Sept. 11. The pact permits Delta to place its “DL” code on SAS-operated flights and vice versa.
SAS is within the midst of a strategic realignment since Air France-KLM purchased a 19.9% stake within the airline in August by way of its Chapter 11 chapter restructuring. The provider has since left the Star Alliance, the place it was a founding member, and joined SkyTeam. Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith has mentioned that he needs to include SAS into the group’s transatlantic three way partnership with Delta and Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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Three way partnership membership, if accredited by regulators, would enable SAS to coordinate its flights and fares between the U.S. and Europe collectively with Air France, Delta, KLM and Virgin Atlantic.
As a part of the shift, SAS added flights between CPH and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL), Delta’s essential hub, in June.
With Seattle, SAS will serve 11 North American cities, together with Delta hubs Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS), Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) and John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK), Cirium Diio schedules present.
A spokesperson for SAS advised TPG that tickets for the brand new Seattle flights will start “shortly.”
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