SAS Scandinavian Airlines has revived Seattle's Copenhagen with a lot of fanfare, tumbles of turrets from sea airport firefighters and a lot of pastries after 16 years of vacancies on the route using the Airbus A350.
SAS has a long history in Seattle in 1966, serving Europe as early as 1966, becoming the first airline to serve the Pacific Northwest directly from the African continent. The publication for Port Seattle was titled “Reporters”, which released a three-page cover article about the new service on October 1, 1966.
The service stopped from 1966 to 2009, due to a global recession, due to a decline in passenger flow.
Therefore, the return on May 21, 2025 is a victory for the airline. This event is as exciting as a real celebration.
Seattle is SAS's 11th destination in North America, promoting the role of Copenhagen Airport as a transatlantic travel hub. The route will be operated using the Airbus A350. Starting with CPH, SAS will connect to 39 European cities, including Berlin, Zurich, Milan and Helsinki.
I was filming the arrival of Flight One on the way to the sea ramp, sitting next to a SAS marketer in the van. I joke about the inauguration, saying that they rarely set out on time due to the festival. “Oh, it Will be She said.
So, of course I check it out. In 2025, SAS was named the most accurate airline in Europe by Cirium Aviation Analytics, second in the world (Saudi Champion), with a punctual performance of 91.92%.
In fact, the inauguration was early, so we missed being able to shoot the landing site, but we did get a thorough soaking from the Water Cannon tribute near the gate.
At sea, the wind trends from the southwest or north. On this day, it moved from the west, making everyone on the ramp stand out from the water cannon. Anyway, my camera needed a bath and it wasn't bad for the experience.
Anko van der Werff, SAS President and CEO, said: “Seattle is not only our new destination. It is a city with historic links to Scandinavia, with historic links to business and tourism. We are proud to reopen this connection and offer a larger scope to our clients.
The Seattle route is part of SAS's wider network expansion, which also includes new destinations including Nuuk, Greenland and Seoul, South Korea, which will begin in 2025.
The route will fly five times a week throughout the year, with the CPH-SEA flying as the SK937 and the SEA-CPH being the SK938.
It's great to see another European airline on the sea, with the new service going to offer more options for travelers in the Pacific Northwest.
