Danish airlines Sterling and Maersk Air will merge, creating Europe’s 4th largest lowcost airline, it was announced today.
Some quotes:
– Sterling will with app. 5 million passengers per year be the largest low-cost carrier in the Nordic Countries and the 4. largest low cost airline company in Europe.
– Sterling will operate 30 aircraft to app. 80 destinations.
Once upon a time, Sterling and Maersk were fierce competitors on the Scandinavian charter scene. One with 727-200 and Caravelle, the other with 720 and 737-200s…
By: Sonnenflieger - 30th June 2005 at 19:03
Looks like we now have a Scandanavian/Icelandic low cost super airline. Will the competition authorities allow this. Sterling also codeshare with Norweigan and FlyNordic so will have a near monopoly on low fare routes from Denmark, Norway and Southern Sweden
Neither Sterling nor Maersk have a dominating position in Danish aviation. Lowcost services from Scandinavia are in direct competition with FlyMe and Scandinavian Airlines’ Snowflake class as well as Ryanair who operates a big hub at Stockholm-Skavsta. In fact I’d like to see either FlyMe or Flynordic merge with this new Sterling for tougher competition with SAS.
By: Humberside - 30th June 2005 at 18:27
Looks like we now have a Scandanavian/Icelandic low cost super airline. Will the competition authorities allow this. Sterling also codeshare with Norweigan and FlyNordic so will have a near monopoly on low fare routes from Denmark, Norway and Southern Sweden
By: Sonnenflieger - 30th June 2005 at 17:28
The Maersk shipping company has wanted to sell the airline Maersk for a long time. Does this mean that Maersk Airlines is sold to Sterling?
No, it’s been sold to the Icelandic owner of Sterling whose name escapes me at the moment. AP Møller (i e the shipping company), owner of Maersk Air, gave the airline a year or so to shape up or be shut down. This is a great solution even though the name Maersk will disappear. But with the horrific livery they have now I won’t miss them.
Photo from Maersk Air website
By: tenthije - 30th June 2005 at 17:22
The Maersk shipping company has wanted to sell the airline Maersk for a long time. Does this mean that Maersk Airlines is sold to Sterling?
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June 30, 2005 at 12:24 pm