SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) will drop its 6x weekly Stavanger-Houston Intercontinental service with effect from October 25 of this year. Launched in August 2014, the flights connect two important petroleum hubs and operate on-board an all-premium configured B737-700 wet-leased from PrivatAir (Switzerland) (Geneva).

Despite the petro-route's termination, SAS will retain the aircraft albeit in a dual-class configuration featuring twenty seats in premium and sixty-six in economy. It will subsequently be redeployed on the Scandinavian carrier's Copenhagen Kastrup-New York Newark service.

“The oil route came out of creative and constructive product development between SAS and our core clients in the oil industry," Eivind Roald, Executive Vice President Commercial at SAS, said. "We have done all we can to make it viable, however, we have had to accept that the downturn in the industry unfortunately is also impacting us, hence our decision to switch the aircraft to Copenhagen-New York, where the market offers far more potential right now.”