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

Scanair

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

History

Scanair was founded in Denmark in June 1961 and was partially owned by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). The first aircraft operated was the Douglas DC-7 for charter flights to Spain, North Africa, and the United States. 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 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 it mergers with the Danish airline Conair of Scandinavia on 1 January 1994. The new airline was called Premiair.[2]

Historical fleet details

• 3 - Airbus A300B4
• 3 - Boeing 727-134
• 1 - Boeing 747-143
• 3 - Boeing 747-283B
• 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 - McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• 3 - McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• 6 - McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
• 1 - McDonnell 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

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Scanair.

• Code and fleet info^{[permanent dead link]}
• Scanair Magazine - Historien om Skandinaviens största charterflyg
• SCANAIR historical website
• SCANAIR uniforms at uniformfreak.com
• Another SCANAIR history site
• SCANAIR Fleet details

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