SAS Airlines, the flag carrier of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, has announced it will discontinue its Copenhagen-Tel Aviv route in March 2016. "Tel Aviv is an expensive route to operate in stiff competition and we don't have a sufficient profitability to keep it," a SAS spokesperson was quoted as saying. "We can also see that political instability is affecting the route." SAS is also cutting service on its Moscow and Ankara routes. After a decade-long absence from the Israel market, SAS launched the Copenhagen-Tel Aviv route in 2012.
