View Full Version : BGO stop on LAX-SEA-CPH route
Vermont Viking
12-09-2009, 20:08
Please forgive this posting being in English. While I can read Danish and Norwegian with little difficulty, writing (note spelling) is a bit harder for me.
Does anyone recall when the stop in Bergen was dropped from the West Coast route?
As i recall, the LAX-SEA flight would stop in BGO once weekly. I think this lasted into the late seventies, after the route had DC-10 service. Was there much of a passenger market BGO-West Coast, or was there a demand for freight service?
Mange Tak,
Christian i Vermont
You are right
Flightnumber was SK935 , and i think it was stopped around 1975-76
rgds
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Vermont Viking
15-09-2009, 22:31
AFAIK, gik ruten intil '79, men jeg er ikke sikker paa det.
I also think it did operate later than 76...I know when I started in SAS in Oslo in the Spring of 1980 we still had the GOT-BGO-JFK flight once or twice a week. As to your questions in regards to the market, I would say yes there was a huge market both ways, maybe most from the US. At that time SAS still had reservations in L.A. also - serving the West Coast....and there was a close co operation between SAS and several large tour operators here in the US (I am now living on Bainbridge Island Washington State). In addition we used BGO as transfer in the same manner as CPH from OSL...and of course the ticket prices where quite high still....in 1980 our lowest fare from Scandinavia to New York was around NOK 4000.00 in the summer, and this summer you could find tickets to Seattle for that amount....the cheapest ticket only allowed the passenger to reserve a week, SAS Space Control would assign flights inside that week....
Vermont Viking
16-09-2009, 06:36
Thanks for the info. I remember stopping by the Los Angeles Res/CTO around '91 or so have a nonrev pass issued. Very nice people there, as were the agents at LAX. The commememrative marker for the first SAS service (I'm told it's carved from Greenlandic granite) is still at the entrance to the LAX theme building. It was very sad for me to see the LAX route get dropped in '94. Memories of many LAX-CPH trips after my family moved from Denmark to California. And now SEA is gone, too. Sad to compare SK's intercontinental routes of the 1970's to today's.
On the fare from Scandinavia to the West Coast. The last revenue ticket I bought on the route was in 1981. Fare: almost USD 1200! Now people would consider that to be highway robbery, nearly 30 years later! No wonder this industry is in such a mess.
That '91 trip was quite memorable for me. Not only I flying without my parents, but my LAX-CPH flight diverted to YWG in the middle of the night with an engine problem. (The aircraft was LN-RNA "Magnus Viking" which crashed while on lease to Avianca. )Pity the poor AC agents night shift agents writing hotel vouchers for a 747 load of people! The next day I was rerouted YWG-YYZ-LHR-CPH.
DC-8-61 to YYZ, highlighted by a go-around past the threshold! Then Biz-class (not too exciting, standard coach seats, with a "Connaisseur Class" headrest cover. And I was too young to drink! :( (Although probably not on AC, but I didn't think of that). Then LHR-CPH on a brand new A-300on OY-KAA (the same ship that was leased to Malaysian and crashed!) Then, finally, arrival in CPH with only one bag missing
AN adventure for an aviation geeky teenager!