{"id":15659,"date":"2026-06-30T23:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:39:43","slug":"sas-orders-18-airbus-a330neo-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15659","title":{"rendered":"SAS orders 18 Airbus A330neo aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Story and image by Airbus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30, 2026 <\/strong>&#8211; Scandinavian carrier SAS has placed a firm order with Airbus for 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aircraft.airbus.com\/en\/aircraft\/a330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A330-900<\/a> aircraft as part of its ongoing fleet renewal strategy. The agreement was signed during a ceremony in Copenhagen by Anko van der Werff, SAS CEO and Beno\u00eet de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, Airbus EVP Sales of the Commercial Aircraft business.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The aircraft will support SAS\u2019 ongoing international network expansion, allowing the airline to increase existing high capacity routes globally and introduce new routes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Powered by the latest generation Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines, the A330neo is designed to fly up to 8,100 nautical miles \/ 15,000 kilometers non-stop and reduces fuel burn, CO2 emissions and operating cost by 25% compared to previous generation competitor aircraft. The A330neo unique Airspace cabin offers passengers and crews the latest modern in-flight products for a comfortable flying experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image by Airbus Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30, 2026 &#8211; Scandinavian carrier SAS has placed a firm order with Airbus for 18 A330-900 aircraft as part of its ongoing fleet renewal strategy. The agreement was signed during a ceremony in Copenhagen by Anko van der Werff, SAS CEO and Beno\u00eet de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, Airbus EVP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,5637,7929,5500,4957,5676,13831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-european-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15660,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions\/15660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}