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SAS Group offers customers possibility to offset carbon dioxide emissions

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SAS can now offer customers in the Group the
possibility to offset carbon dioxide emissions arising from air
travel by paying compensation.
"We are delighted to be able to offer our customers this
possibility. It is part of the SAS Group's environmental strategy and
is a suitable complement to the primary mechanisms in the Kyoto
Protocol," says Mats Jansson, President and CEO of SAS.
From today, customers wishing to offset their impact on climate
change can log on to the SAS website www.flysas.ch and be able to
click through to a professional supplier with whom the compensation
transaction will take place. Initially, customers will be able to
offset carbon dioxide emissions by choosing to support various
sustainable development projects, for example, renewable energy. A
common feature of all of these projects is that they have generated a
documented reduction in carbon dioxide emissions that has also been
verified by a third party. The second phase will allow customers to
choose to purchase carbon offset suitable for compliance purposes
(for example CDM/CERs or Kyoto Allowances).
The price for compensating for flight emissions through projects
varies according to point of origin/destination. A typical return
flight between Scandinavia and Europe generates approximately 300
kilos of carbon dioxide and costs approximately CHF8,-.
The SAS Group has chosen The CarbonNeutral Company as its partner,
whose carbon management system is 'assured' by leading accounting
firm KPMG, and who adopt a rigorous project selection and
verification process. The CarbonNeutral Company has extensive
experience from working with projects involving carbon dioxide
reductions and sustainable development.
The option to voluntarily offset carbon dioxide emissions is a
transitory solution until 2011 when aviation will be included in the
EU Emission Trading Scheme, for which SAS has been a positive
advocate.
SAS views voluntarily offsetting carbon dioxide emissions as part
of its environmental work. This also includes the development of more
environmentally adapted technology, the Group's own activities such
as fuel-savings programs, Green Approaches, and work on creating
infrastructure improvements through such activities as a common
air-traffic control system in Europe.
SAS Group management has also decided that business travel in the
Group shall offset carbon dioxide emissions by paying compensation.
SAS offers daily non-stop flights to Copenhagen, as from CHF158,
to Stockholm as from CHF 197,to Helsinki as from CHF 199 and to Oslo
as from CHF 181 (incl. all taxes and bookable on www.flysas.ch). SAS
departures out of Switzerland are Zurich and Geneva.
Out of Copenhagen, SAS operates direct to New York, Washington DC,
Seattle, Chicago, Bangkok, Tokio, Beijing and as from October 2007
also to Dubai. Out of Stockholm, SAS offers non-stop flights to New
York, Chicago und as from March 2007also to Beijing. More information
about Scandinavian Airlines System, pictures and pressmaterial are
available on: http://www.flysas.ch and http://www.sasgroup.net

Contact:

Nele Davignon
SAS Scandinavian Airlines System
Tel.: +41/43/210'26'96
Fax: +41/43/210'26'30