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Scandinavian Airlines
Scandinavian Airlines was founded in 1946 bu Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL), Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) and Sveriges Interkontinentale Aero Selskap (SIAS). Operations started in September 1946 with European destinations. In 1951 the airline was dividated to SAS Denmark (28,6%), SAS Norway (28,6&) and SAS Sweden (42,8%). In 1954 SAS started the worlds first intercontinental route. It was from Copenhagen to Los Angeles, and it became wery popular. Later that year SAS opened several routes to East-Asia as well.

SAS almost got monopoly on all domestic routes in the three countries by acquiring full partial control of local airlines. In 1997 SAS formed the global alliance Star Alliance together with Air Canada, Lufthansa, Thai airways and United Airlines. In 2004 SAS bought the Norwegian flag carrier Braathens, and SAS was divided into 4 different companies:



SAS International

SAS Sweden

SAS Denmark

SAS Braathens

Destinations
SAS serves several destinations world over. Under is a list who shows them.

Asia: 5 destinations

Beijing - Shanghai - Tokyo - Bangkok - Singapore

Africa: 1 destination

Cairo

Europe: 84 destinations

Vienna - Brussels - Prague - Århus - Aalborg - Billund - Copenhagen - Tallinn - Helsinki - Tampere - Nice - Paris - Berlin - Düsseldorf - Frankfurt - Hamburg - Hanover - Munich - Nuremberg - Stuttgart - Athens - Budapest - Reykjavik - Dublin - Bolgona - Florence - Milan -Naples - Rome - Venice - Vilnius - Amsterdam - Ålesund - Alta - Bergen - Bodø - Harstad/Narvik - Haugesund - Kirkenes - Kristiansand - Kristiansund - Molde - Oslo - Stavanger - Tromsø - Trondheim - Longyarbyen - Gdansk -Poznan - Warsaw - Lisbon - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Allicante - Barcelona - Madrid - Málaga - Las Palmas - Arvidsjaur - Gothenburg - Helsingborg -Kalmar - Kiruna - Luleå - Malmö - Örnsköldsvik - Ronneby - Skellefteå - Stockholm - Sundsval - Umeå - Växjö - Geneva - Zurich - Poznan - Zagreb - Istanbul - Aberdeen - Birmingham - Edinburgh - London - Manchester - Newcastle - Chania - Sarajevo - Bucuresti - Belfast

Middle east: 1 destination

Beirut

North-America: 4 destinations

Chicago - New York - Seattle - Washington D.C.