SAS Group's December traffic figures

SAS Group's December traffic figures

• SAS Group's traffic decreased by 12.5% during December and seat capacity was
down 10.2% vs 2007. 
• SAS Group carried 2.2 million passengers in December, down 3.0% vs 2007. 
• Total passenger load factor in December was down by 1.7 p.u. to 64,8%. 

Group market trends and yield development 
Yield for Scandinavian Airlines in November was up by 3.3%, in line with earlier
indications. For December 2008, the change in yield is expected to improve
slightly and be positive versus last year.

The market is characterized by lower demand due to weaker macroeconomic
development in Scandinavia and worldwide. The challenges within the credit
market will most likely result in an even more difficult macroeconomic
environment in SAS Group's core markets. The SAS Group is currently implementing
measures - Profit 2008 - to improve the result development. The measures
comprise both revenue enhancing and cost measures totaling SEK 1.5 billion.
Capacity reductions of 10% as announced earlier are gradually taking effect. The
program is running according to set out plan. More capacity cuts are likely to
be implemented in 2009.

SAS Scandinavian Airlines 
• Total number of passengers reached 25.4 million during 2008, a decrease by
0.2%.
• Traffic decreased by 9.4% in December
• The passenger load factor decreased by 3.2 p.u to 66.1% in December. 

Scandinavian Airlines International's total intercontinental traffic decreased
by 10.9% in December vs last year and capacity was down 4.2 % Traffic on both
Asian the USA routes was down 11% . The total passenger load factor was 74.5%,
down 5.5 p.u.

Scandinavian Airlines Danmark decreased its capacity with 10.2% and the total
traffic decreased 8.4% in December. On European routes, the capacity was reduced
with 6.7% but traffic was only down 4.7%. The total load factor was 63.8%, up
1.3 p.u.
Scandinavian Airlines Norge's capacity decreased by 5.7% and traffic was down by
8.1%. Total load factor was 56.4%, down by 8.5 p.u. 

Scandinavian Airlines Sverige's capacity decreased by 12.9%. The total traffic
was down 9.2% resulting in a 2.8 p.u. higher total passenger load factor of
67.7% in December.

Punctuality (December)  
Within 15 minutes 85.6% of the flights departed on time and the regularity was
99.2%. 

Internet bookings (November)
The proportion of Internet bookings was 34.9% (34.4%) in November 2008



For further information Please contact VP,Head of SAS Group Investor Relations
Sture Stølen
+ 46 8 797 1451 sture.stolen@sas.se

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