SAS med trafikktall for september - Aviation24.be

 

SAS traffic figures September 2020: -78.6%

By

André Orban

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7 October 2020


In September SAS carried 0.6 million passengers and reports a capacity reduction of 73% compared to the same period last year.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact SAS’ traffic negatively. In September, the total number of passengers ended at 0.6 million, a decrease by 2.3 million, and total capacity was down by 72.7% compared to the same period last year. Demand for domestic travel continues be stronger than for European and Intercontinental traffic and SAS has adapted its network accordingly.

“Since March, when nearly all traffic was halted, we have slowly started to rebuild our network. Today SAS operates up to 380 daily flights servicing 75 destinations and I am pleased that we now have resumed our presence at mainland China after 9 months interruption. Overall demand is heavily dependent on imposed travel restrictions. In September more countries were unfortunately classified as “red”, reducing the number of passengers somewhat versus August. However, in the last six months we have seen a slow but steady recovery in demand, and in September SAS reports half a million additional passengers than in April. Looking ahead, we continue to monitor the market development and stand ready to make further adjustments in accordance with how demand evolves,” says Rickard Gustafson, CEO SAS.