{"id":303838,"date":"2026-06-03T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=303838"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:50:32","slug":"the-sas-premiere-flight-had-to-turn-back-halfway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/sas-premiarflygning-fick-vanda-halvvags\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS's inaugural flight had to turn back halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A diversion was forced during the maiden flight of SAS's new Copenhagen-Mumbai route. The reason was that the flight lacked the necessary official permits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 17 years, it was time again for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/tagg\/organization\/sas\/\" class=\"\">SAS<\/a>-flight to India's economic capital of Mumbai. But the premiere had a disappointing end. Halfway to India, the plane had to turn back. On the Flightradar24 website, flight SK 969 can be seen making a u-turn over Azerbaijan, before flying back to Kastrup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to SAS, the fully booked flight had to turn back as the necessary authority permits were missing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dBased on ongoing dialogue with the relevant authorities, SAS had every reason to believe that the remaining formal approval would be completed while the flight was en route. As the necessary approval was not completed as expected, the flight could not proceed as planned, the company writes in an email response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201dAbsolutely appalling\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A passenger writes in an email to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/ekonomi\/sas-plan-mot-indien-vande-halvvags-saknade-godkannande\">SVT<\/a>&nbsp;that it is \u201dabsolutely appalling to even let a flight leave the airport without having the permits to land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear how the passengers, who had to spend over 12 hours in the air without getting anywhere, will be compensated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to SAS, they expect the route to Mumbai to get under way \u201din the coming days \u2013 as soon as the formal approval has been issued\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Expressen.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under premi\u00e4rflygningen f\u00f6r SAS nya f\u00f6rbindelse K\u00f6penhamn-Mumbai fick planet att v\u00e4nda om.\u00a0Orsaken var f\u00f6r att flygningen saknade n\u00f6dv\u00e4ndiga myndighetstillst\u00e5nd. Efter 17 \u00e5r var det \u00e5ter dags f\u00f6r en&nbsp;SAS-rutt till Indiens ekonomiska huvudstad Mumbai. Men premi\u00e4ren fick ett sn\u00f6rpligt slut. Halvv\u00e4gs till Indien fick flygplanet v\u00e4nda om. P\u00e5 sajten Flightradar24 syns p\u00e5 planet SK 969 g\u00f6r [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":301174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[2487,85,7751,7756,312,831,400,8090,5247,8086,1506,8092,200,4055,8087,7785,5357],"class_list":["post-303838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flyg","tag-airbus-a320neo","tag-flyg","tag-flygincident","tag-flygnyheter","tag-tag-flygplats","tag-indien","tag-kopenhamn","tag-kopenhamn-nuuk","tag-nuuk","tag-premiarflygning","tag-resebranschen","tag-ruttlansering","tag-sas","tag-scandinavian-airlines","tag-tekniskt-problem","tag-travel-report","tag-vanda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAS-premi\u00e4rflygning 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