19 Facts About SAS Commuter

SAS Commuter, branded as Scandinavian Commuter, was a regional airline which operated in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

SAS Commuter became the launch customer of the Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 in January 2000, which over the next two years replaced the Eurolink Fokkers and the Saabs.

From April 2003 SAS Commuter took over former Braathens routes in Western Norway, operated under the Westlink brand.

SAS Commuter was dissolved on 1 October 2004 and integrated into the three national operating companies.

SAS Commuter therefore decided to subcontract the operation of some of its international and domestic services to Busy Bee and Swedair, starting in 1982.

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SAS Commuter terminated its agreements with Busy Bee and Swedair prematurely in order to insource the operations.

Essentially the charter operator Scanair and SAS Commuter were split out into separate companies which became sisters of the SAS Group, owned in the tradition 3:2:2 ratio.

SAS Commuter was flying what they considered local routes with DC-9s, others were flown at high costs by Widerøe using de Havilland Canada Dash 7s.

SAS Commuter announced in September 1988 that it intended to change this model.

Seven Fokker 50s were reserved for Norlink, which took over all SAS Commuter flights operating between airports from Trondheim Airport, Værnes and northwards.

SAS Commuter chose to locate its Norlink base at Tromsø Airport.

SAS Commuter had not been able to train sufficient captains in time, which caused additional services to be terminated.

SAS Commuter cut eleven daily services in January 1991, and followed up with a further seventeen —a twenty percent reduction—in October.

Later SAS Commuter established a technical and operations base at Trondheim Airport, Værnes.

SAS Commuter bought Swedair in 1993, but allowed it to enter receivership in 1994.

Meanwhile, SAS Commuter was working on a major fleet replacement project to replace its Fokker F28 Fellowships with larger Boeing 737s.

SAS Commuter announced on 30 July 1996 the order of four Saab 2000s, later increased to six.

Aviation historian Ake Hall stated that it was the aircraft type which SAS Commuter has had the most challenges with throughout its history.

SAS stated that the utility of having SAS Commuter was lower operating costs than Scandinavian Airlines, but that restructuring had caused these discrepancies to dissipate.