Scanair
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| IATA code : | DK |
| ICAO code : | VKG |
| Call sign : | VIKING |
| Founding: | 1961 |
| Operation stopped: | 1993 |
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Stockholm , Sweden
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| Home airport : | * Copenhagen-Kastrup |
| Fleet size: | 9 |
| Aims: | Europe , Canary Islands , Madeira , North Africa , Turkey , Gambia |
| Scanair ceased operations in 1993. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Scanair was a Stockholm- based Scandinavian charter airline and a subsidiary of the scheduled airline SAS Scandinavian Airlines . It ceased operations at the end of 1993.
Established as a Danish company
Scanair was founded on June 30, 1961 in Copenhagen as a Danish subsidiary of Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ), which as a member of IATA was not allowed to operate IT charter flights . The multinational state company SAS initially only had a 45% stake in Scanair . The remaining shares were held by the Danish shipping company Det Østasiatiske Kompagni , the Norwegian shipping company Fearnley & Eger ( Skibs Marina ) and the Swedish Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget ( SAAB ).
The company's original fleet consisted of two Douglas DC-7s leased on a long-term basis by the SAS , with which operations began on September 4, 1961. The first flight was from Copenhagen to Athens . Both aircraft, like all other aircraft in use until autumn 1967, were used by the company in the colors of the SAS , so that the Scanair airline only made its public appearance six years after it was founded. If required, other machines from the parent company were rented for a short time, including jet aircraft of the Douglas DC-8 type , which were first used on February 11, 1962 on a flight from Copenhagen to Palma de Mallorca . From 1962 an additional Sud Aviation Caravelle was regularly operated in the summer months. Scanair initially operated IT charter flights to the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands exclusively from Danish airports . In the first financial year, the company carried 70,000 passengers.
Scanair put two more Douglas DC-7s into service in 1963 and operated, among other things, a leased Convair CV-990 from SAS on ad hoc charter flights to Asia and Africa. The airline Nordair , previously bought by SAS , was liquidated on November 1, 1964, allowing Scanair to secure additional shares in the Danish charter market. In the 1964/65 financial year, the company carried 186,000 passengers.
The state parent companies of the Scandinavian SAS consortium acquired the 55% stake on October 1, 1965, which until then had been held by the three private shareholders. As a result of the change in ownership, Scanair became a purely state-owned company and was thus given the right to take up charter services from Sweden and Norway. To this end, the company opened agencies at Oslo-Fornebu and Stockholm / Bromma airports . The state takeover took effect on July 1, 1966.
In the autumn of 1966 Scanair was able to win the Swedish tour operator Vingresor as a customer, for whom they carried 38,000 passengers in the following holiday season. Because the capacity of its four Douglas DC-7s was not sufficient for this, the company rented additional Caravelle and Douglas DC-9 machines . The state-owned company SAS was repeatedly accused of granting its charter subsidiary special rental rates so that it could operate more cheaply on the market than its private competitors. Around 261,000 passengers were transported in the 1966/67 financial year, an increase of 40 percent compared to the previous year. Most of the flights were to Spain and Italy. On October 23, 1967, Scanair retired the last Douglas DC-7 and took over three Douglas DC-8-33s from their parent company. Those models equipped with 167 seats machine wore the first time a small Scanair logo on the vertical stabilizer , but were otherwise in SAS painted -Farben. In addition, from October 1, 1968 , Transair Sweden used three Boeing 727-100s in a long-term wet lease for the company, which in particular covered the smaller airports in Sweden.
Development in the 1970s and 1980s
Scanair moved its headquarters from Copenhagen to Stockholm in 1970 . At the beginning of 1971, the company took a stake in the Swedish holiday provider Vingresor in order to retain it for the long term. The company introduced the same year more powerful Douglas DC-8-55 into service and used on weekends widebody aircraft of the type Boeing 747 on flights to the Canary Islands. Regular charter services from Copenhagen to Colombo ( Sri Lanka ) and from Stockholm to Banjul ( Gambia ) began in 1973. While passenger numbers on the Danish market stagnated in the early 1970s due to competition from Conair and Sterling Airways , the company was able to steadily increase its transport services in Sweden. In the 1972/73 financial year, 65% of all flights originated from Sweden (Denmark: 26%, Norway: 9%), and the company carried a total of 735,000 passengers.
As further types, the Fokker F28 from Linjeflyg (from 1974) and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 from SAS (from 1975) were rented for a short time . On April 1, 1976, Scanair took over their first Douglas DC-8-62 , which was used on charter flights to Mexico , among other things . In the 1977/78 financial year, the company carried more than 1.2 million passengers for the first time. From 1980 the annual number of passengers dropped significantly. After Transair Sweden was dissolved in autumn 1981 and its four Boeing 727s were no longer available, Scanair used seasonally leased Douglas DC-9s and, from 1986, McDonnell Douglas MD-80s on less frequented routes. In addition, these aircraft covered the routes to some Greek islands whose runways were too short for the Douglas DC-8.
In the spring of 1983 Scanair leased three Airbus A300s from SAS on a long-term basis , which offered space for 294 passengers. At that time the company owned a 30% share in the Scandinavian charter market (48% in Sweden, 27% in Denmark, 25% in Norway). In the summer of 1983 the company presented a new corporate identity . The first aircraft were painted in this color scheme in December 1983. In 1988 the company acquired six McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s to replace the Douglas DC-8s. Their first flight was on December 1, 1988 from Stockholm to Tenerife . At the same time, the company introduced a second, more comfortable class of transport under the name Sun Class . The start-up of the 374-seat machines turned out to be difficult. Due to missing spare parts, there were several flight cancellations. As a result, the Douglas DC-8 machines that were to be retired had to be kept ready as replacement machines. Because these only had 254 seats in contrast to the DC-10, Scanair was initially only able to sell a reduced number of tickets and not fully utilize the capacities of the new wide-body aircraft. After the problems were resolved in the spring of 1989, the DC-8 were sold. The company carried a total of 779,000 passengers in the 1988/89 financial year. 86% of the flights originated in Sweden (Stockholm 56%, Gothenburg 20%, Malmö 10%). The rest of the traffic was split between Oslo (12%) and Copenhagen (2%). The technical base in Copenhagen was closed in the same year.
Cessation of flight operations
The effects of the Second Gulf War led to a sharp drop in holiday traffic from autumn 1990. The Douglas DC-10 turned out to be too big on some routes and could no longer be operated economically on these. Scanair then used three McDonnell Douglas MD-82 and MD-83 from 1991 . In addition, the company briefly rented Boeing 737-500 from Linjeflyg .
In the early 1990s, only limited growth was forecast for the Scandinavian tourism market, so that stronger competition among providers was to be expected. To make matters worse, from 1993 companies from other EU countries were also allowed to participate in the Scandinavian charter market due to the changed air traffic law . In order to avoid competition and to position themselves better, the Danish Spies Holding A / S (as the owner of Conair ) and the SAS Leisure Group (as the owner of Scanair ) agreed on a cooperation on September 15, 1993, which led to the establishment of the joint charter airline Premiair led. The Premiair began flight operations on January 1, 1994. At the same time, Scanair ceased operations at the end of 1993 and ceded its machines to the new company.
Incidents
- On February 8, 1965, a Douglas DC-7 ( aircraft registration SE-CCC ) had an accident while taking off from Los Rodeos Airport ( Tenerife ). The aircraft leased from SAS was written off as a total loss. All 91 inmates survived the incident without serious injuries.
fleet
- Airbus A300B4 (operated from 1983 to 1987)
- Boeing 727-100 (leased from Transair Sweden from 1968 to 1981)
- Boeing 737-500 (temporarily leased from Linjeflyg)
- Boeing 747-100 and 747-200 (briefly rented, operated in 1982 and 1983 in own colors)
- Convair CV-990 (rented for a short time)
- Douglas DC-7C (operated from 1961 to 1967)
- Douglas DC-8-33, DC-8-55, DC-8-62, DC-8-63 (rented briefly from 1962, operated in its own colors from 1967 to 1989)
- Douglas DC-9-32 and DC-9-41 (rented seasonally)
- Fokker F28 (rented seasonally from Linjeflyg)
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 and DC-10-30 (DC-10-30 briefly rented, DC-10-10 operated from 1988 to 1993)
- McDonnell Douglas MD-82 and MD-83 (rented seasonally, operated from 1991 to 1993 in own colors)
- Sud Aviation Caravelle III (rented seasonally)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ Flight International, July 20, 1961 (PDF)
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1962
- ↑ Flight International, April 2, 1964 (PDF)
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1963
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1965
- ↑ Flight International, February 10, 1966 (PDF)
- ↑ Flight International, April 7, 1966 (PDF)
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1967
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1968
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1973
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1975
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1976
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1978
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1980
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1983
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1988
- ^ Scanair Magazine, McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1989
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 92/93
- ^ Scanair Magazine, 1991
- ^ Accident report DC-7 SE-CCC , Aviation Safety Network , (English), accessed on October 18, 2019
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
- ^ Scanair Magazine, Histories
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