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SAS Scandinavian Airlines is ending its codeshare partnership with Croatia Airlines from September following its acquisition by Air France - KLM and its upcoming accession to the SkyTeam alliance on September 1. SAS currently codeshares on Croatia Airlines operated flights between Zagreb and Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Sarajevo, Skopje, as well as Zurich. Furthermore, it codeshares between Split and Zurich. As of September, the airline will codeshare on Air France, KLM, and LOT Polish Airlines on flights between their respective hubs and the Croatian capital. The airline is also terminating its codeshare agreement with Lufthansa, which includes flights from both Frankfurt and Munich to Zagreb.
We got ITA and are losing SAS, overall a good trade
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have SK than AZ tbh
DeleteMore diaspora in the north
ITA has codeshare only on OU flights from Rome.
DeleteITA is a worse carrier, Italians dont like it and also ITA only flies to half of Europe.
DeleteHow is ITA worse than SAS? The short-haul product is more or less the same, long-haul ITA wins (especially in Business), and ITA lounges are far above any SAS lounge.
DeleteITA will offer much more flexibility for transfers long term, and is already double the size of SAS when it comes to long haul flights. SAS is by now constrained only to the Atlantic and two Asian routes, whereas ITA is now already the fourth airline in Europe by capacity to South America, is expanding in West Africa and the Middle East and also in Southeast Asia. Not to mention Lufthansa will accelerate its development in Europe
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DeleteItalians actually do quite like ITA, both as passengers and also as taxpayers since it is by now clear that this wont be another Alitalia
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DeleteTo quote your below comment, im just being pedantic by saying this ;) - by technicality, ITA's European product blows SAS out of the water (and most other airlines) since ITA has started using its A321neos on flights to CDG,AMS,MAD,ATH,TLV... These planes also fly on 5-6 hour routes to Riyadh, Dakar, and soon Dubai, and so have an incredible lie flat business class seat and premium economy which are getting rave reviews from everyone who has flown on them, since ITA is i think the only airline in Europe atm that has some variation from the classic "Euro-biz"
Maybe I'm pedantic, but SAS is not being acquired by AF-KLM as indicated in the article, they are only acquiring a 20% stake. Small, but important difference.
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"Being acquired by someone" implies acquiring a controlling stake, but thanks for playing.
DeleteYes, you are being pedantic.
DeleteThis is a gradual acquisition abd management/consulting. Expect CPH to grow as the Dutch Government places the brakes on AMS on environmental grounds. We will probably see a JU codeshare given the AF/KL experience.
DeleteI can't see why they have to end their agreement when Croatia Airlines code share with KLM and Air France?
ReplyDeleteI heard a rumour that both Star Alliance and SkyTeam have a limit on how much you are allowed to codeshare with airlines of a competing alliance. If that rumour is correct, then maybe AF and KL don't have many such codeshares so that one with OU is within the limits, but SK logically needs to dismount many of its Star codeshares to join SkyTeam.
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