Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) Link subsidiary is to take on an additional three Embraer 195 small narrowbody jets.
The aircraft will come from lessor Nordic Aviation Capital, in a deal announced as Europe was winding down for the holiday season.
SAS Link started services in 2022 and is a regional operation, using small narrowbody and regional jets on thinner, short-haul routes that do not require a narrowbody.
The three E195, which are scheduled to be delivered as soon as they become available over the spring, according to SAS, will be the earlier-generation E1 models.
Like the 10 E195s already in the SAS Link fleet, the new aircraft will be in a single-class, 122-seat layout. They will be used both to expand the number of destinations in the SAS Link network, as well as increase frequencies on existing routes.
The new aircraft represent an expansion of the fleet, said SAS, rather than replacing some of the Canadair CRJ regional jets provided on wet-lease by Ireland’s CityJet.
The E195 E1 has a range of 2400km/1300nm, which makes much of Western and Central Europe accessible from SAS Link’s main bases of Stockholm, Oslo and Bergen.
The increase in the E195 fleet follows on from comments by SAS network VP Henrik Winell at Routes Europe in Aarhus, Denmark, in April 2024, when he said that SAS was starting to expand Link.
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