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SAS permanently retires the DHC-8-400!
from AirlinersGallery.com - Airline News by Airliners Gallery
Scandinavian Airlines-SAS (Stockholm) today (October 28) in an extraordinary board of directors meeting decided to never return the Bombardier DHC-8-402s (Q400) to revenue service following the third accident yesterday.
The fleet is permanently retired and will be sold! The terse statement by SAS read as follows
"Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably and our customers are becoming increasingly doubtful about flying in this type of aircraft." This is a very strong statement from what was the launch customer of the type in January 2000 and will probably hurt future sales efforts by Bombardier. The airline will continue to cancel Q400 flights but will endeavor to reallocate current aircraft in the SAS group to the Q400 routes and also by means of leasing additional aircraft. What are the chances of seeing Scandinavian Commuter ATR 72s in the future?
I wonder what SkyWest Inc. will do in light of the "retirement" of the ATR-72s? Guess ASA will be keeping them for another 3 years?!