Scandinavian Airlines Logo — SAS Scandinavian Airlines (formerly Scandinavian Airlines System ), short- SAS , a Scandinavian airline , based in Stockholm . It operates hubs at Copenhagen Kastrup , Oslo Gardermoen and Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and is a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance . 1946, joined the Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A / S , the Swedish Svensk Intercontinental Air Traffic AB and the Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap together to form a strong airline.
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SAS became one of the leading airlines in Europe , and today consists of two Danish and two Norwegian and three Swedish owned shares. On 15 November 1954 opened with SAS Douglas DC-6B, the first airline to fly the route from Europe to the West Coast of the United States stands with the North Pole . A plane flew on that day from Copenhagen on Soendre Strömfjord on Greenland and Winnipeg in Canada to Los Angeles , a second plane took off at the same time in Los Angeles in the opposite direction. 1956 SAS commissioned Arne Jacobsen to build a hotel with a clearance terminal in downtown Copenhagen. The SAS Royal Hotel was opened in 1960 and is considered a work of art Jacobsen. From 1959 the company began its first jet-powered aircraft (the Sud Aviation Caravelle ) and in 1960 the Douglas DC-8 on a long haul. In 1965 she introduced the first airline in a Europe-wide, electronic reservation system, concluding in 1969 with Turi Widerøe introduced the first female pilot in a Western airline. As of 1971, with the Boeing 747, the first widebody aircraft for SAS to use and since 1984, the Company operates a hydrofoil between Copenhagen and Malmo. More