Scanair

Scanair

IATA ICAO Callsign DK VKG Viking
Founded	1961
Ceased operations	1994 (merged to form Premiair)
Company slogan	SunJet
Parent company	Scandinavian Airlines

Scanair was a charter airline of Danish origins that operated between 1961 and 1994. Its head office was in Bromma, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.^[1]

History

Scanair was originally founded in Denmark in June 1961 and was partially owned by SAS. The first aircraft to be operated was the Douglas DC-7 for charter flights to Spain, North Africa and the US. In 1965 the headquarters was moved to Stockholm and SAS supplied Scanair with Douglas DC-8 aircraft. Soon thereafter two Boeing 727 joined the growing fleet and Scanair soon became the biggest charter company in Scandinavia.

Other destinations served throughout the years in addition to those mentioned before were the Canary Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the winter resorts of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. To increase capacity the Airbus A300 was acquired but the A300's range was not sufficient for the needs and those were soon replaced with Douglas DC-10s. Scanair grew so much that by the 1980s was carrying over 2 million passengers a year, but that was not enough to turn a profit so a merger partner was found in the Danish airline Conair of Scandinavia with which it merged on January 1, 1994, and that resulted in the formation of a whole new airline called Premiair.^[2]

Historical fleet details

A Scanair Douglas DC-8-55 at Palma de Mallorca Airport in 1976

• 2 - Douglas DC-7C
• 3 - Douglas DC-8-33
• 2 - Douglas DC-8-55
• 3 - Douglas DC-8-62
• 2 - Douglas DC-8-62CF
• 5 - Douglas DC-8-63
• 2 - Douglas DC-8-63PF
• 3 - Airbus A300B4
• 1 - Boeing 747-143
• 3 - Boeing 747-283B
• 3 - Boeing 727-134
• 3 - McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• 3 - McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• 6 - Douglas DC-10-10
• 1 - Douglas DC-10-30

Fleet references: ^{[3] [4]}

Business management

CEOs

• 1961–1968 - Svend Thorkild Thomasen
• 1968–1970 - Johan H Paus
• 1970–1971 - Anders Eriksson
• 1971–1976 - Carl-Olov Munkberg
• 1976–1982 - Georg Olsson
• 1982–1984 - Bengt A Hägglund
• 1984–1990 - Henrik Meldahl
• 1990–1991 - Jan Sundling
• 1991–1993 - Thomas Rosenqvist

Chairman of the board

• 1969–1978 - Knut Hagrup

References

1. "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 24-30 March 1993. 120.
2. Hengi,
3. Scanair
4. rzjets.net

• Hengi, B. I. (2000). Airlines Remembered. Hersham, England, UK: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1857800913.

External links

• Code and fleet info
• SCANAIR history
• SCANAIR historical website
• SCANAIR uniforms at uniformfreak.com
• Another SCANAIR history site
• SCANAIR Fleet details