Denmark’s Aarhus Airport and SAS airline have announced plans for a new strategic cooperation between them. This took place at a press conference held at Aarhus Airport on October 5.
At the briefing Executive Vice President of SAS, Lars Sandahl Sørensen, said that SAS is investing hundreds of millions DKK in Aarhus Airport. An investment that enables 3,000 new departures, more than 300,000 new tickets for sale and around 200,000 new passengers at the airport. All within the first year of the new cooperation.
“We see big potential in the region. We are strengthening our domestic service with extra daily departures between Aarhus and Copenhagen, which creates better opportunities to use air travel to Copenhagen, where there is access to our global network. Furthermore, we are creating direct departures from Aarhus to holiday destinations and will continue to develop these. This is a big venture for SAS together with Aarhus Airport and it will create many new jobs in and around Aarhus”, said Lars Sandahl Sørensen.
Specifically, SAS is creating five new international departures from Aarhus to Oslo, Stockholm, Munich, Mallorca and Split. Furthermore, the route between Aarhus and Malaga will become an all year-round route that means SAS now offers seven destinations to and from Aarhus. SAS is simultaneously increasing the number of departures between Aarhus and Copenhagen by 20% and thereby strengthening the cohesion between East and West Denmark. SAS will from April 2018 operate three to four planes in the service from Aarhus.
With this new cooperation agreement Aarhus faces growth in the airport’s traffic of more than 50% which naturally has led to satisfaction for Chairman of Aarhus Airport, Torben Boldsen. He underlined that the cooperation with SAS is among other things an attempt to satisfy the demands from the airport’s business clients: “A year and a half ago we asked businesses in East Jutland what they wanted with regard to the airport’s traffic. The answers all pointed to direct flights to Oslo and Stockholm as well as more frequent service to Copenhagen. The common denominator for all three requests is SAS, which is the only airline that flies to all three destinations. That is why it is with great joy and pride that we now can present a substantial expansion of the airport’s traffic in exactly the areas that there is a demand for.”
Caption: SAS and Aarhus Airport present five new departures and routes to and from Aarhus. Additionally, the route between Aarhus and Copenhagen is expanding from 8 to 10 daily departures in each direction. Photo: Aarhus Airport.
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