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SAS has recently joined the SkyTeam alliance and since then, we’ve started to see the airline building up a hub in Copenhagen and we’ve seen it bringing back routes between Europe and the United States that haven’t operated for years.
It’s not, however, all expansion, expansion, expansion, at SAS HQ as we’re now also seeing the airline making some strategic cuts on some of its transatlantic routes for summer next year, so if you have any bookings with SAS, now would be a good time to check that they’re still in place.
The schedule changes
Copenhagen – Atlanta
Originally, the SAS schedules showed the airline operating this route daily for the whole of the 2025 summer season. Not anymore.
The daily service will now operate from 8 July 2025 onwards on the following schedule with an A330-300:
SK929 CPH 13:25 – 17:20 ATL
SK930 ATL 19:45 – 10:50+ 1 day CPH
Before then, however, the route has seen some changes to the schedule:
- Between 30 March and 7 May, the route will not operate on Tuesdays.
- Between 8 May and 20 May, the route will not operate on Tuesdays or Thursdays and will be operates by an A350 instead of the scheduled A330.
- Between 21 May and 7 July, the route will operate on Tuesdays.
Interestingly, this doesn’t appear to be a route that Delta plans to operate in summer 2025, so it won’t be able to pick up its SkyTeam partner’s slack in the period when SAS isn’t operating the route daily.
Copenhagen – Boston
The reduction in service were seeing here isn’t in the number of flights that SAS will offers between these cities in summer 2025, but in the number of seats that it will offer on this route.
As things stand, SAS still plans to offer a daily service between Copenhagen and Boston next summer on the following schedule:
SK927 CPH 13:25 – 15:35 BOS (Daily)
SK928 BOS 17:40 – 07:05+1 day CPH (Daily)
It will not, however, be operating this route with an A350-900 as originally planned. An A330-300 will now fly between the two cities, and this means that SAS will now be offering 8 fewer Business Class seats, 50 fewer Economy Class seats and 24 more Premium Economy seats on every flight on this route.
Copenhagen – New York (JFK)
This is the route that appears to be seeing the biggest cuts in the number of flights on offer from SAS (the once planned 13 weekly flights are now down to 7) but to make up for it, the route is getting an aircraft upgrade.
From 30 March 2025, SAS now plans to operate the route 7x/week on the following schedule:
SK915 CPH 14:20 – 17:00 JFK (Daily)
SK930 JFK 18:55 – 08:40+1 day CPH (Daily)
Before the schedule updates, this route was set to be operated by a narrow-body A321neo LR, but this has now been replaced by a wide-body A330-300.
The net effect of this is that on the flights that it still plans to operate on this route, SAS will offer 10 more Business Class seats, 44 more Premium Economy seats, and 55 more Economy Class seats.
The bigger aircraft won’t quite make up for the flight cuts (SAS will offer 179 fewer seats per week on this route than originally planned), but the larger premium cabins should make some people happy.
Oslo – New York (EWR)
Prior to the schedule updates, this was a route that was going to be served daily by a wide-body A330-300. Now, the route is losing one of its weekly flights and it’s seeing an aircraft downgrade.
From the summer season (from 30 March 2025), this is the new schedule for the route:
SK907 OSL 11:00 – 13:15 EWR (Mon & Wed – Sun)
SK908 EWR 18:50 – 08:40+1 day OSL (Mon & Wed – Sun)
Also, this route is now set to be operated by a narrow-body A321neo LR aircraft which means that not only is this route losing a weekly flight, but that it will also offer 10 fewer Business Class seats, 44 fewer Premium Economy seats, and 55 fewer Economy Class seats on every flight.
The fact that SAS is bringing back the Oslo – JFK route from next summer probably has a lot to do with the latest schedule update for this route, but that’s not likely to offer much solace to anyone keen to avoid JFK or to anyone who has booked this route in the belief that they would be flying in a wide-body aircraft.
Bottom line
In one way or another, SAS is making cuts to at least five of its planned routes between Europe and the United States for next summer, so if you’re booked to fly with the airline in 2025, make sure you check that your reservations are still intact and that your seat assignments haven’t changed.
Featured image courtesy of SAS
