Company Watch - SAS Group.For more global news, data, analysis and features, please go to: http://www.AirGuideOnline.com/professional.htm Sep 25, 2006 SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Cargo became the eighth airline to join Cargo Portal Services, the Unisys-operated online booking portal that gives freight forwarders free Internet access See how to access the Internet. to member carriers' schedules and space availability and the ability to book and confirm shipments in real time. CPS membership includes American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Air Canada, Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. , KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) , Northwest Airlines and United Airlines. Continental Airlines is in the process of going live. Sep 18, 2006 SAS Group The SAS Group (OSE: SAS, OMX: SAS) is a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company is owned by SAS Danmark A/S, SAS Norge AS and SAS Sverige AB, those companies are owned by SAS AB. SAS Group owns several airlines in Europe. airlines flew 3.54 billion RPKs in August, up 3.6% from the year-ago month. Capacity increased 3.1% to 4.73 billion ASKs and load factor rose 0.4 point to 74.7%. Scandinavian Airlines flew 2.46 billion RPKs, down 0.6%, against a 0.5% drop in ASKs to 3.21 billion, leaving load factor steady at 76.5%. Sep 22, 2006 SAS selected Precise Biometrics to supply biometric security checks on Swedish domestic services. Fingerprint readers will be placed at baggage check-in and boarding gates to ensure "that the person handing the baggage really is the same person boarding the plane," the company said. It also announced that its onboard magazine Scanorama now is available in Chinese. Sep 22, 2006 Scandinavian Airlines will launch four-times-weekly Stockholm Arlanda-Beijing service in April using A340-300s. It currently serves China from Copenhagen. Sep 22, 2006 SAS will launch a four-times-weekly nonstop route between Stockholm and Beijing in April using A340-300s. With the direct route to China from Stockholm, SAS intends to counter the growing success of Finnair's Helsinki-Far East services as well as secure its position in the Swedish market. "Sweden accounts for about 60% of the Scandinavian long-haul market," Swedish airports operator LVF LVF Loyalist Volunteer Force LVF Left Ventricular Function LVF Left Ventricular Failure LVF Linear Variable Filter LVF Libertarian Victory Fund (political fundraising group) LVF Lavatory Vent Fan LVF Line Voltage Fluctuation Group Director-Aviation Marketing Mats Sigurdson said at the Routes conference in Dubai. LVF, which operates 13 Swedish airports, offers a "very attractive" incentive scheme to carriers starting new routes from Stockholm, he added. The risk-sharing incentives for new intercontinental flights include a 96% discount on passenger charges and a 50% discount on takeoff charges for the first year. Sep 20, 2006 |
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