SAS could deepen cooperation with airline partners
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Background ✨
SAS President & CEO Anko van der Werff told CAPA TV at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit World 2025 that SAS’ transition to SkyTeam “has been marvelous”, with more frequent-flyer earn-and-burn on SkyTeam carriers than it achieved in 27 years previously, and it “feel good about 2026”.1 Air France-KLM and SAS expanded their commercial partnership, adding SAS’ nonstop trans-Atlantic services into the codeshare network across multiple US gateways from Copenhagen, Stockholm Arlanda and Oslo.2 Air France-KLM also initiated proceedings to take a majority stake in SAS, and Air France and SAS filed with the US DoT to enable Air France-coded codeshares on SAS US-Scandinavia flights.3 4