SAS Scandinavian Airlines in the network the desk measures
Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the SK code that yields 266 city pairs across 140 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.
140airports on this carrier
38countries and territories reached
266scheduled city pairs held
917average daily flights across them
The schedule the desk holds carries the SK code on 266 city pairs, reaching 140 airports in 38 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by SAS Scandinavian Airlines and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 85 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on time zones in the Americas.
01The longest sector held for the carrier is Copenhagen (CPH) to Los Angeles (LAX) at about 9,028 km, and the shortest is Aarhus (AAR) to Copenhagen (CPH) at about 148 km. 121 of the pairs are under 1,500 km and 15 run past 5,000 km, a medium haul shape that usually joins a Gulf departure at a single interchange. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Copenhagen (CPH), on 111 of them, which is 41.7 per cent of everything held under this code.
02The thickest sector under the code is Oslo (OSL) to Trondheim (TRD) at about 27.9 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.9 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Copenhagen (CPH), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 76 of the 266 pairs run four or more times a day and 101 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Copenhagen (CPH) the code leans on Stockholm (ARN) on 66, Oslo (OSL) on 54, Goteborg (GOT) on 16 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.
The sectors that carry the SK code most often
The 16 sectors the SK code appears on most often, out of 266. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.
How a courier reaches Copenhagen from the Gulf
The schedule the desk holds shows no SK service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Copenhagen (CPH), and SAS Scandinavian Airlines carries the second.
The first leg, measured. These are the 3 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Copenhagen (CPH), the airport this code is booked through most often.
Night restrictions on the airports the SK code uses
A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 18 of the 140 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.
- Stockholm (ARN), night restrictions. Night movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local with exemptions.
- Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
- Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
- Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
- London (LHR), night restrictions. A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
- Amsterdam (AMS), night restrictions. Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules.
Published lanes that carry the SK code
The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. SAS Scandinavian Airlines appears in the schedule on 2 of them, and the one it flies most is Aberdeen to Stavanger at about 3.6 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.
The countries the SK code opens
Of the 38 countries and territories reached, 21 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Greece with 18 airports on this code. The country desk for Denmark sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.
Greece (18 airports), Norway (15 airports), Italy (14 airports), Sweden (11 airports), United States (9 airports), Spain (9 airports), Germany (8 airports), France (5 airports), Poland (5 airports), United Kingdom (5 airports).
Where to go next on the SK network
Each of the 140 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 266 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Copenhagen (CPH), the route calculator with Dubai to CPH already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.
