SAS SURVIVING A STORM

摘要

At 03:00 on August 1,1946, in an Oslo office, six men put their names to an historic agreement that would become a beacon for airline co-operation for years to come. Prime movers for the creation of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) were Marcus Wallenberg and Per Norlin, founder and president of Sweden's Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik (Swedish Intercontinental Airlines -SILA). Per Kampmann and Thomas Falck Jr, respectively heads of the Danish and Norwegian national carriers, Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) and Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL), were co-signatories. Finland's participation in the charter was precluded by political uncertainties in the wake of the Soviet-Finnish peace treaty, though it had participated in preliminary discussions for a possible joint Nordic Transatlantic service late in 1936, following the earlier failure of a co-operative venture between DNL and Pan American via Reykjavik.