Regulatory News:
The Swedish Government, through Kammarkollegiet (STO:SAS)(OSE:SASNOK),
has decided to extend its contract for non-domestic flights with SAS and
its Star Alliance™ partners Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines. The
contract is worth a total of SEK 700 million.
Kammarkollegiet highly valued both SAS’s prices and timetable, as it
choose to extend the contract with SAS and its partners within the Star
Alliance™. The contract applies to all flights outside Sweden.
"We are proud that the Swedish Government values our extensive route
network. We will also continue to save time for their employees, as we
have just been named Europe’s most punctual airline for the third year
in a row,” says Lars-Ove Filipson, Vice President, Corporate Sales.
The top destinations for the Swedish Government’s non-domestic flights
in 2011 were Brussels, London and Copenhagen. The contract has been
extended for one year until May 31, 2013. The SAS contract is used by
265 government authorities, departments, colleges and universities in
Sweden.
SAS Group Investor Relations
SAS discloses this information pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market
Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The
information was provided for publication on 27 January 2012, at 11.30
a.m. CET.
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