SAS and Airtours are extending their cooperation on charter and scheduled flights in a new agreement that runs until 2024, starting in the summer of 2021. The value of the contract is more than SEK 800 million (US$97 million) over four years.
SAS will initially fly Airtours customers to and from Stockholm and Gothenburg to a range of destinations around the Mediterranean during the summer of 2021. The number of destinations will be further expanded by summer 2022.
“We are very pleased with the new agreement with Airtours. Charter partnerships are an important part of SAS’ strategy to seasonalize capacity. It is a positive signal and we look forward to meeting increasing demand for travel as the world gradually opens up with more and more people getting vaccinated. This means that more and more countries will relax their travel restrictions and we can eventually return to more normal travel. Many people are eager to relive their favourite destinations or to discover completely new places,” says Markus Ek, Global Sales Director at SAS.
The entire charter production that SAS flies for Airtours will be flown with new Airbus A320 aircraft. SAS has been renewing its fleet in recent years, replacing older planes with newer, more fuel-efficient engines, and thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
