Talk:Scandinavian Airlines System
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Scandinavian Airlines + SAS Braathens ???
We should decide if we should include SAS Braathens in this article or not, we can't mention it everywere except in the fleet details, or can we? Ardfern took the fleet details for SAS Braathens away, should we keep it like that and remove other information about SAS Braathens or include the fleet details about SAS Braathen?
The official company name taken from the register of corporations is:
SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM DENMARK NORWAY SWEDEN SAS
- That's what I always thought too. But check the company website - it uses the singular. Did they change it? Or have I been wrong all these years? Tannin
- It’s always been this way. It’s a functional name — SAS is the Scandinavian airlines system. That’s what it was meant to do when founded — unite the national carriers to form a single system that would be able to compete in the global market. A plurar here just wouldn’t make any sense. Markonen
- The confusion is great; I think the web has significantly more "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEMS" than "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM". There even seems to be a Swedish law that is targetted at SAS using "SYSTEMS".
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- Google: 10200 results for "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM", 857 results for "SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEMS". Markonen
At present the entry merely deals with the "Scandinavian Airlines" part of SAS, which makes up roughly half of the businesses for the whole corporation. The other activities should probably be included here rather than splitting it on separate entries, which would definately lead to naming issues. The subsidiary airlines are to some extent already mentioned and should survive as such but the hotels and other activities ought also to be mentioned. -- Mic
[edit] Oslo
I do find iut strange that "Oslo" is not listed as a hub, but a "focus city".
Why is that? SAS Braathens operate many flights from Oslo, and I don't think there are any fewer flight from Oslo than it is from Stockholm.
[edit] Answer to the Oslo question
I now why Oslo isnt a hub, thats because SAS has 31 international destinations (and more daily international departures) from Stockholm than Oslo. (Oslo has 21 international destinations, most of them are served once or twice a week). But your right about the amount of flights from Oslo, Oslo has even some more passenger than Stockholm, but most of them are domestic or transfer flights to ARN or CPH. And Oslo does not have any intercontinental flights.
[edit] Oslo=hub
I've changed the page to include Oslo to a hub. Scandinavian Airlines itself defines Oslo as an international hub in their destination map. (See the inflight magazine Scanorama). It would be strange to use other definations than the ones that SAS use.--217.118.49.189 20:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)HRE