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SAS Norway is the largest airline in Norway with 440 daily departures.  SAS Norway is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Group.  The company operates routes in Norway and also between Norway and the rest of Europe.  SAS Norway carries around 10 million passengers per year. The company had a profit for 2007 of NOK 921 million.

The SAS Group has a route network covering approximately 150 destinations.  Of these are about 55 destinations covered by SAS Norway, from Longyearbyen in the north to Las Palmas in the south.  The route network is operated by a total of 62 aircraft.  54 Boeing 737s, 6 Fokker 50s and 2 Avro 70s.  SAS Norway is a member of the global Star Alliance network.

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Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, commercially branded “Norwegian,” is a public low-cost airline noted on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company is the second largest airline in Scandinavia, and has a route portfolio that stretches across Europe into North Africa and the Middle East.  With competitive prices and customer friendly solutions and service, the company has experienced significant growth over the previous years. With more than 9.1 million passengers in 2008, Norwegian is the 4th largest low-cost airline in Europe. The turnover in 2008 was in excess of NOK 6.2 billion, an increase of 43% from the year before.

By year end 2008, Norwegian operated 40 aircraft on 170 routes to 87 destinations and employed approximately 1,500 people.

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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is a worldwide company based in the Netherlands. Since their merger in 2004, KLM works closely with Air France within the AIR FRANCE KLM holding company. In terms of financial turnover, AIR FRANCE KLM is the world's largest airline partnership; it also transports the most passengers and is the world's second-largest cargo transporter.

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