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Nov 28, 2014 (newstodate): A rising share price is the immediate market response to news that SAS and Etihad have entered a code-share agreement.
The new agreement is Etihad Airways' 47th airline partnership globally and its 22nd in Europe and SAS' 23rd code-share agreement.
Pending government approvals, SAS will add its prefix on Etihad' flights between Abu Dhabi and Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Zurich, Geneva and London Heathrow, while Etihad will add its airline code on SAS' flights between these points and SAS' hubs at Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo as well as SAS' flights from these hubs to domestic destinations in the respective countries.
Etihad has so far remained the only important Gulf carrier not to open traffic into the three Nordic markets.
It is widely speculated that Etihad may actually emerge as a future owner of the Scandinavian carrier SAS, should long-term ideas of a sale-off of the partly state-owned carriers prevail.
The new agreement is Etihad Airways' 47th airline partnership globally and its 22nd in Europe and SAS' 23rd code-share agreement.
Pending government approvals, SAS will add its prefix on Etihad' flights between Abu Dhabi and Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Zurich, Geneva and London Heathrow, while Etihad will add its airline code on SAS' flights between these points and SAS' hubs at Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo as well as SAS' flights from these hubs to domestic destinations in the respective countries.
Etihad has so far remained the only important Gulf carrier not to open traffic into the three Nordic markets.
It is widely speculated that Etihad may actually emerge as a future owner of the Scandinavian carrier SAS, should long-term ideas of a sale-off of the partly state-owned carriers prevail.