SAS

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Stephen, I am just a 17 year old student….and I travel alot yes….accompanying my father on busianess trips, going on trips myself etc etc. 🙂

SAS’s new livery is brilliant…..i really like it. Also to come to the point that airlines do differ on routes. Another example….Air India fights to NY and Chicago are actualy brilliant, great service, good staff. But there flights to like Singapore, BKK, HK are absolutely pathetic.

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All airlines do that.

With British Airways it has always been the routes to “dark” Africa (as opposed to South Africa or Northern destinations like Egypt) that got lumped with the piggiest aircraft and rudest staff.

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Kabir, your comments about the airline on it’s Indian sector prompt me to comment on another airline that has very different ambiance depending on the sector.
Emirates between London and Dubai, is a totally different Airline compared to Emirates between Dubai and Manila. The first sector is obviously the “cream”, whilst the second, carrying lots of Philippino seamen and domestic workers is definitely considered much lower grade. I find the attitude on this sector quite unforgivable especially as the Philippinos are almost without exception polite, happy, and sober.
Regards

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Kabir, great photo. BTW, I know that you are an author on airlines, but what else do you do? You get to travel a lot.

I like the SAS livery. I like modern schemes, the look of airlines has to move forward at some point. The old images were very nice as well, but I don’t think we need to stay in the past. I just note that as I notice a lot of people prefer the old liveries. Discussion piece perhaps.

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I flown with SAS on countless occasions within Europe and these are my experiences:

Positive:
– Very punctual
– Interior fittings always in good shape and tidy

Negative:
– Economy Class within Europe outrageously expensive, particularly since they joined the Star Alliance

Neutral:
– Cabin crew. Can be very pleasant or less so; have experienced both.

I have to say this though:

As a Scandinavian I always regarded flying with SAS as something special as I used to think that they had more “style” and a much better image than other airlines. I thought their old livery with the dragon head at the end of the blue cheatline was a very elegant and timeless paintscheme (in fact it lasted from the fifties with minor changes into the eighties). Nowadays I don’t have this special feeling anymore. The present livery is awfully trendy, very boring and lacks style: the combination of blue and orange is fashionable at the moment (German television (ZDF) uses it for their evening news!), but in two years time it will look completely outdated, and (worst of all) the three crowns symbolizing the three Scandinavian kingdoms have disappeared! The present corporate image simply doesn’t convey the feeling of anything special anymore.

Anyway, did you know that SAS isn’t an acronym for Scandinavian Airlines System but for “Svensk Alt Sammen” which means “it’s all Swedish” in Danish and Norwegian?

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Like most European large carriers i think SAS to compremise on quality and service on domestic(or within Europe) sectors.

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I flew CDG-ARN 3 times , not that long ago on a MD80 and it was OK.
Not outstanding , just middle of the road.

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I’ve seen nos of SAS operators in action here in Malaysia during certain COIN exercise with Malaysian Gerup Gerak Khas.Weapons seen used by the boys(if i could remember it correctly):
Browning HP
Sig Sauer P226
Colt M16A2/M203
HK MP5 SD3
FN MINIMI LMG
FN MAG 58 GPMG

While during Commonwealth Games 98 in KL-Royal Malaysian Police engaged TASK INTERNATIONAL to trained our police HRT/CQB teams.All of the instructors were fresh from the SAS regiments(retired)-and their weapons of choice:
Glock 17
HK MP5 PDW

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the SAS can use anything any time basically. Ther are a profuse number of weapons which are ‘standard’ including many HK varieties and a large selection of pistols from the Browning 9mm to the latest ceramic glock thingies 🙂

Thing is, you make yourself look like friendlies(or regular enemy forces) or you want a weapon to do a job(if you intend not to be seen).

what you want for an operation requires different tactics and equipment.

coanda

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Believe they used ak47’s a bit also M 60’s.

the SLR was my favoured rifle. Also used the SA80 and SMG.

I wasnt in the army long and wasnt in the SAS before anyone asks its just that I liked the SLR

Merlin

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I just saw the movie ‘Bravo two zero’ made of the book written by Andy Mcnabb, great movie. And a touching story.
The SAS patrol was armed with M-16s, Minimi, and M-203.

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They use all kinds of weapons. They do this to get familiar with all kinds of weapons including the ones from the enemy(small arms).

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yeh they have the political suport to allow them to buy anything -hence they’ve used the m16

rabie :9