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SAS is currently the leading carrier in the Nordic countries, and is also a founding member of the Star Alliance. It operates out of two primary hubs, the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and the Copenhagen Airport in Kastrup. Oslo Airport is serviced mainly with connections from the Swedish and Danish SAS hubs. The SAS fleet has 130 aircraft.

The airline has three fully owned subsidiaries, Braathens and Widerøe in Norway and Blue1 in FinlandSuomen TasavaltaRepubliken Finland ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National motto: None Official languages Finnish and Swedish Capital Helsinki President Tarja Halonen Prime minister Matti Vanhanen Area Total % water Ranked 64th 337,030 km² 9. 4% Population Tot. It also owns 49% stakes in SpanairSpanair S. is a Spanish airline, which was founded in December of 1986. 51% of the company is owned by Teinver S. and 49% by SAS. It began operating at the end of March 1988, and has its head offices in Palma de Mallorca. It has operating bases in Gran Ca and Estonian AirEstonian Air ( IATA: OV is the national airline of Estonia. The airline was established on December 1, 1991, shortly after Estonian independence. Privatized in 1996, 49% of the airline's shares are owned by SAS. In 1995, Estonian leased two Boeing 737s to. In 2003, the SnowflakeSnowflake is the low-cost airline subsidiary of Scandinavian Airlines System, operating on the concept of low fares in return for a basic product. Meals and drinks onboard are not free of charge but may be purchased. No onlining or interlining is permitte brand name, which operates discount-fare routes, was launched. In 2001, SAS and its subsidiaries transported a total of 36 million passengers.

The worst accident of SASThe Linate Airport disaster occurred on October 8, 2001, at Linate Airport in Milan, Italy. Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686 which used an MD-87 plane carrying 110 people, was headed to Kastrup International Airport, collided on take-off with a Cessna bus happened in 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap in MilanThis is about the Italian city of Milan. For other uses, see Milan (disambiguation). Milan Milano in the Italian language, and Milan in Milanese dialect, from Latin, Mediolanum with the meaning of 'in the middle of the plain') is the main city in northern, ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, when its McDonnell Douglas MD-87 plane collided with a small plane during take-off and left 114 people dead.

See also: List of Swedish companies, List of Norwegian companies, List of Danish companies