SAS resumes flights between Copenhagen and Bangkok, Thailand after 10-year hiatus

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has launched seasonal, thrice weekly flights to Bangkok, Thailand from Copenhagen, Denmark. The inaugural flight took off on Monday, almost 75 years after SAS' first flight between the two cities. SAS operated its first flight between Copenhagen and Bangkok in 1949, opening a new air route between Scandinavia and Thailand. The route, which at the time “only” took 36 hours, had stops in Zürich, Rome, Damascus, Karachi, and Calcutta along the way. SAS continued to fly to Thailand for the next 64 years, up until 2013. Today, flights between the two cities take approximately 10 hours and 30 minutes, with no stopovers. Bangkok, Thailand. Both legs of the Copenhagen (CPH) - Bangkok (BKK) route will be operated as overnight flights enabling seamless connections to and from Scandinavia as well as other European destinations via CPH airport. SAS will operate flight SK973 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, departing CPH at 23:35 and arriving in Bangkok at 17:10 the following day. The return leg, flight SK974, will leave Bangkok every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 23:50, arriving in CPH at 06:40 the following day. SAS will operate the Bangkok route with Airbus A350 configured with 300 seats across three classes – SAS Business, SAS Plus and SAS Go.<br/>