Challenges of getting the traffic program together with SAS's largest provider of CRJ900 flights, Irish CityJet, has prompted the Scandinavian carrier to look after new business partners.
Estonian Regional Jet - already providing flights to SAS with ATR72 aircraft - has been hired to assist a CRJ900 aircraft on routes from Copenhagen during the period 24 September to 30 November.
In total, Regional Jets CRJ900 will return 52 flights for SAS per week to destinations such as Birmingham, Bologna, Munich, Bucharest, Geneva, Warsaw, Trondheim and Tallinn - all flights of flights operated mainly by CityJet.
SAS and Regional Jet have entered into a so-called ACMI agreement, which means that Regional Jet delivers aircraft with crew, maintenance and insurance to SAS.
TALLINN SETTING ON DANISH ROUTES
Regional Jet, a subsidiary of the Estonian state-owned company Nordica, has already helped SAS with a CRJ700 aircraft since July, but now it was upgraded with a further flight.
The CRJ900 aircraft must service the SAS route from a local-owned Tallinn, not covered by the agreement applicable to the staff of Regional Jets ATR72 operations for SAS.
In this regard, SAS's press department informs in an email that SAS expects from their external partners that employees must have local competitive conditions consistent with the country in which they are based.
The Aerospace Personnel Union, which has the agreement for the employees of Regional Jets ATR72 operations for SAS in Denmark, states that it is keeping a close watch on the extent of Regional Jets other tasks for SAS.