So yes I think it would be feasible to start such route. What you are forgetting is that there are many Swedes, and Danes, that have lots and lots of money, that wants luxury, and that do travel C. The problem is that tourist route pays very little money and SAS, with their high overheads and variable costs needs the money high-density C-routes provides, such as China routes. Naturally, no running government would articulate this but if all the government were to withdraw you'd see these routes slowly whittering away. The need to local communities could be withdrawn as it is quite a simple cost-benefit analysis if continued support of these routes. ![]() Air travel being the most expensive form of travel is only kept in its current form because of the governmental interests in the company. But they do influence SAS agenda by subsidies, if they weren't owners there would not be much reason in supporting local communities as they now get, in return, some money back. The governments do not determine the network of SAS, in fact, they do very little. The problem occurs if the state sells it asset with no rights to leverage their policy, much like any majority owner would. Thus, be default, SAS flies these routes as WF is owned fully by SAS. SAS have many problems and being state owned by 3 different gov't is only one of them ![]() Wideroe on the other hand flies a number of state subsidies routes in Norway, but they fly these routes regardless wheter who owns them and SAS has not been the owner of WF for more than 10 years and has nothing to do with SAS being state owned or not. None of the routes SK (mainline) flies in Northern Norway or Sweden is state subsidies and they are all run of commercial reason because there is a market for it. It would be intersting to see the Danes and Swedes selling their share with the Norwegian government left with 50.1%(?) - now then I think you'd see state interference. Now, I am pro-capitalism but even understand many of the drawbacks if this were to happen.Įven if the governments were to sell, it wouldn't mean SASs' problems would go away the unions would still be an integral part of the airlines operations, and lets face it lately they have caused all the issues. This means, should the governments sell their share's one is left with an uncertain transportation policy as a non-owner would be without any possibilitues to pressure the company. Wideroe has withdrawn from all the markets state-support has been provided. This combined equates the need for government subsidies on most routes, i.e. On the other hand, these regions are not rich in population but have a high degree of poor infrastructure (relatively). Secondly, Scandinavia (especially Norway and most territory north of ARN) is difficult to commute without airlines. The problem that Scandinavia face is more than just selling firstly, the government's are silent owners and relatively speaking they do not leverage much of their power onto the airline. Stateowned airlines are something that belong to the past Hopefully all three gov't decides to sell as it a disadvantage for SAS being owned by 3 different gov't, more concered about their own self-intererest than the company itself. That be A333, A332, A340 or B767? I mean how many planes of this type are available on the market? What are the chances of SK getting more planes. Wouldn't it be a wise to be looking at either 744F or other cargo planes to handle this? My dad flew the 747 SK had leased from Atlas, and there was a great demand for it. As far as I know SK doesn't have dedicated cargo planes. How about the Cargo division? Why doesn't SK have a larger cargo division. I remember in the "old" days when SK flew to HKG. I have a large business friends that are traveling to Dubai, but have to go through FRA, CDG, LHR, VIE. I see a huge demand for flight to Dubai, and especially from CPH the demand is growing. Also the market in Sweden is turning towards Florida. There is a strong market for flights to Florida due to large numbers of cruise ship travellers. ![]() But I mind I see a destination such as MIA or Orlando, from maybe ARN, and even CPH. So a strong expansion into North America, SFO, PHL and YYZ, would be sensible.
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