SAS changes Boston schedule

Boston Logan Airport has been expanding rapidly recently with constant announcements of new services, routes, and airlines. Unfortunately, not all airlines are doing so well in the market. SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) inaugurated daily flights from Copenhagen to Boston on a leased Boeing 737 from PrivatAir in early 2016 with 88 seats. When the lease on the plane ended, the airline decided to switch to its own Airbus A330-300 and A340-300 on the route while decreasing to three or four weekly flights. Unfortunately, the airline has not been selling so many seats on a much larger plane. Some planes during the winter had as few as 40 passengers on a plane with 240-260 seats. SAS had decent load factors throughout the summer, but their load factors throughout the winter have been terrible. The goal of the route is two connect the cities which are both centers for pharmaceutical companies and tourism. As a result of such abysmal load factors, the airline has decided to change the route from operating the route year-round to seasonally. This year the route will operate its last flight November 18, 2018, and return March 31, 2019. It is sad to see that the route is not doing well from Boston, but I am glad that the route will be operated at least seasonally, instead of being cut completely from their network. Unfortunately, the planes SAS has are just too large for the demand for the destination from Boston. Hopefully, SAS manages to do well on the seasonal flights they will operate.
Sources: finalcall.travel
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