Sun Air of Scandinavia
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| IATA code : | EZ |
| ICAO code : | SUS |
| Call sign : | SUNSCAN |
| Founding: | 1978 |
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Billund , Denmark
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| Home airport : | Billund Airport |
| Company form: | A / S |
| Management: | Kristoffer Sundberg ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 230 (2016) |
| Alliance : | Oneworld Alliance |
| Fleet size: | 14 (+ 1 order) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.sun-air.dk |
Sun Air of Scandinavia is a Danish airline based in Billund and based at Billund Airport . It has a franchise agreement with British Airways and uses their brand names and corporate design for its operations.
history
Sun Air of Scandinavia was founded in 1978 and began operating in the same year. Originally, Sun Air was only active in the charter and taxi business , from 1987 regional scheduled flights were also offered.
On August 1, 1996, Sun Air of Scandinavia and British Airways signed a franchise agreement . Since then, the company has been flying with the British Airways corporate identity .
Sun Air of Scandinavia is wholly owned by Niels Sundberg, who was also CEO and one of the pilots. In 2017, his son Kristoffer Sundberg took over the position of CEO, with Niels Sundberg continuing to hold the role of Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Services
Sun Air of Scandinavia operates a regional route network from Denmark under the franchise agreement with British Airways and flies to European destinations. In the German-speaking area , Düsseldorf , Bremen and Friedrichshafen are served.
In addition to charter and taxi flights operated and brokerage for aircraft.
Destinations
A Dornier 328 was stationed in Hamburg from October 2014 to March 2016 and flew to London City twice a day . With the changeover to the 2016 summer flight schedule, the route was taken over by British Airways. For the 2016 winter flight schedule, Sun Air of Scandinavia stationed two aircraft at Bremen Airport and served London City and Manchester at twice the daily margin. After just four months, Sun Air withdrew completely from Bremen in February 2017. In March 2018, Sun Air announced that it will be connecting Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen with Düsseldorf eleven times a week from June, thus offering domestic flights for the first time. A third Dornier was stationed in Friedrichshafen from September 2019, which flies four times a week to Toulouse. Before that, the French airline Twin Jet operated this route . A connection established in January 2019 between Friedrichshafen and Hamburg with 10 weekly flights was discontinued in February 2020 due to a lack of capacity.
For the 2019/2020 winter flight schedule, Sun Air is offering the following destinations from its four bases:
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Aarhus
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 Stockholm
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Billund
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 Düsseldorf , London-City , Manchester , Oslo 
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Bremen
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 Toulouse
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Friedrichshafen
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Düsseldorf , Toulouse
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fleet
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As of June 2020, the Sun Air of Scandinavia fleet consists of 14 aircraft with an average age of 19.4 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats | Average age |
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| Dornier 328JET | 14th | 1 | ten inactive | 32 | 19.4 years |
| total | 14th | 1 | 19.4 years | ||
See also
Web links
- Sun Air of Scandinavia website (Danish, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ sun-air.dk - About Sun Air ( Memento from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 1, 2016
- ^ Sun AIR - About Us
- ↑ sun-air.dk - Destinations (English), accessed on February 9, 2017
- ↑ SUN-AIR is now flying from Hamburg to London City Airport , accessed on November 12, 2017
- ↑ Sun-Air takes on new routes from Bremen and opens a base at Bremen Airport
- ↑ Sun Air is withdrawing again
- ↑ Friedrichshafen is getting more domestic flights again
- ^ Friedrichshafen Airport: Sun Air stationed third Dornier at Lake Constance. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. July 24, 2019, accessed on July 24, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Sun-Air ceases flight operations between Friedrichshafen and Hamburg. In: Südkurier. January 28, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Timo Nowack: Sun-Air stops flights from Friedrichshafen to Hamburg. In: aerotelegraph.com. January 28, 2020, accessed March 6, 2020 .
- ^ Sun Air Route Map , accessed November 24, 2019
- ↑ [1] , accessed on July 24, 2019
- ^ Sun Air of Scandinavia Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved June 19, 2020 (English).
- ↑ sun-air.dk - Fleet accessed on February 9, 2017
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