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Scandinavian Airlines

flag-carrier airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Organization airline Q187854
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Scandinavian Airlines was founded on August 1, 1946. It operates in the air transport industry.[1]

Its headquarters are in Solna.[2] It is part of the SAS Group as its parent organization.

Key Facts

  • Country: Sweden[3], Norway[4], Denmark[5]
  • Instance of: public company[6]
  • Airline hub: Copenhagen Airport[7], Oslo Airport[8], Stockholm Arlanda Airport[9]
  • Airline alliance: SkyTeam[10]
  • Item operated: Airbus A320 family[11], Airbus A330[12], Airbus A340[13], Boeing 737 Next Generation[14], Bombardier CRJ900[15], Airbus A321[16], Airbus A319[17], ATR 72[18], Bombardier CRJ100/200[19], Saab 90 Scandia[20], Sud Aviation Caravelle[21], Convair CV-440 Metropolitan[22], Convair CV-990 Coronado[23], Douglas DC-3[24]
  • Headquarters location: Solna[25], Scandinavia[26]
  • Has organizational division: SAS Business Opportunities[27]
  • IATA airline designator: SK[28]
  • ICAO airline designator: SAS[29]
  • Child organization or unit: SAS Link[30], Scandinavian Airlines Connect[31]
  • Commons category: SAS Scandinavian Airlines[32]
  • Industry: air transport[33]
  • Inception: August 1, 1946[34]
  • Location of formation: Stockholm[35]
  • Parent organization or unit: SAS Group[36]
  • Significant event: Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871[37], Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 933[38], Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751[39], 2001 Linate Airport runway collision[40]
  • Official website: https://www.flysas.com[41], https://www.sas.no/[42], https://www.sas.se/[43], https://www.sas.dk/[44]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Scandinavian Airlines[45]
  • Commons gallery: SAS Scandinavian Airlines[46]
  • Director / manager: Rickard Gustafson[47]
  • Employees: 12,329[48]
  • Replaces: Det Danske Luftfartselskab[49], Norwegian Air Lines[50], Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB[51]
  • Legal form: aktiebolag[52]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300ZJTLE5T4SGP021[53]

  • Registered legal name: Sas AB[54]

  • Legal jurisdiction: SE[55]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[56]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XJHM[57]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[58]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[59]

  • Entity created: 2001-02-23[60]

  • LEI first registered: 2016-11-09[61]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-10-17[62]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-11-30[63]

  • Managing LOU: 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29[64]

  • Registration authority: RA000544[65]

  • Authority entity ID: 5566068499[66]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[67]

Why It Matters

Scandinavian Airlines has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[68] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[69]

Related Entities

Amadeus IT Group Denmark Nationalmuseum Norway public company Stockholm Sweden

References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [53] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  14. [66] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [67] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [68] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [69] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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