Hej Papa Lima! Det var inte igår!

I need something which looks like art but has a travel-related theme. Maybe a huge poster of the Copacabana with a Varig 707 smoking out through the Sugar Loaf Hill (or whatever its name is…) 🙂

If I put one of them up in my room Id get battered. Why not take your own picture and get it put onto poster. Ive seen it done and costs about £100.

Good idea but as I am not in the slightest bit fascinated by the tin cans flying these days it’s unfortunately not an option… I need older motives… 😀

One SAS related question is do, for instance the SE- reg aircraft only operate Swedish routes? Or do the fleets operate in a random way?

SAS was constructed in 1946 as a consortium of three national airlines, where each airline was owned 50% by the Danish, Norwegian or Swedish government and 50% by private interests. SAS was/is 3/7th Swedish, 2/7th Danish and 2/7th Norwegian.

Until the 90s, the aircraft fleet was made up in the same way. 3/7th of the fleet were registered in Sweden, 2/7th in Denmark and 2/7th in Norway on the respective national airline in SAS (ABA Swedish Airlines, DDL Danish Airlines and DNL Norwegian Airlines). However tax rules made aircraft ownership more expensive in Sweden and Denmark than in Norway, so more and more aircraft were transferred to Norwegian register. Today, the majority of the SAS fleet is registered in Norway regardless of which part of SAS they belong to (SAS Denmark, SAS Sweden, SAS Braathens or SAS International).

It might have been so that respective country’s aircraft only operated that country’s routes in the very early beginnings, but since the late 40s country of registration has not directed where the aircraft is operated.

Oh, right. So does that mean that we should start referring to Boeing DC-3s and Boeing Phantoms, too? :p

Well, if you read Boeing’s press releases and their site that’s what they want you to say! Insane…

You never hear about an “Airbus Caravelle” or an “Airbus VC10”! 😉