According to the air company's press service, while previously there were 5 weekly flights from St. Petersburg to Copenhagen and 7 to Stockholm, 12 in all, there would be only one to the capital of Denmark and 2 to that of Sweden from now on. This is due to the Russian government's ban on the majority of flights of several European air carriers to Russia in response to the ban on Russian airplanes' overflights and landings imposed by the European Union, beginning April 1, 2002.

Scandinavian Airlines was founded in 1946 as a consortium of the national carriers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, its headquarters in Stockholm. Beginning 1967, the SAS established regular flights into and from Russia, which were discontinued over the period from 1981 through 1992. For the last 4 years, the company was very active, its planes flying to and from St. Petersburg.

News source: Rosbalt
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