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Oct 29, 2007 (newstodate): SAS is facing a demanding task to compensate for the shortfall of capacity after its decision to divest itself of its entire fleet of 27 Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
The fleet is now grounded permanently after the latest incident with defunct landing gear on Saturday.
During the coming three months, SAS will perform a review of its network and re-allocation of aircraft capacity within the SAS group.
Alongside this, SAS will seek immediate wet lease arrengements of aircraft during the first month from now, to be followed by dry lease arrangements up till six months.
In parallel, work has already been initiated on how to replace the aircraft type in the long term.
SAS expects to start the implementation of a long-term solution by the second half of 2008.
Bombardier has issued a statement saying it is "disappointed" with the SAS decision to permanently discontinue flight operations with the Bombardier Q400 aircraft given that the landing incident is still under investigation by Danish authorities.
The fleet is now grounded permanently after the latest incident with defunct landing gear on Saturday.
During the coming three months, SAS will perform a review of its network and re-allocation of aircraft capacity within the SAS group.
Alongside this, SAS will seek immediate wet lease arrengements of aircraft during the first month from now, to be followed by dry lease arrangements up till six months.
In parallel, work has already been initiated on how to replace the aircraft type in the long term.
SAS expects to start the implementation of a long-term solution by the second half of 2008.
Bombardier has issued a statement saying it is "disappointed" with the SAS decision to permanently discontinue flight operations with the Bombardier Q400 aircraft given that the landing incident is still under investigation by Danish authorities.