Shanghai - Copenhagen SAS Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A340-300 (OY-KBC)

Flight: SAS Scandinavian Airlines Lines SK 998
Departure from: Shanghai Pudong International Airport, PVG, Terminal 2, China
Take Off from Runway 17L; length 4,000m / 13,123m
Arrival To: Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, CPH, Københavns Lufthavn, Denmark
Landing on Runway 30, length 2,800m / 9,186ft
Distance: 8,296km / 5,155 miles
Duration: 10 hours and 36 minutes
Travel Class: SAS GO, Economy Class
Departure lounge at PVG: Air China Business Class Lounge, Gate 71, Terminal 2, International Departure Area
Arrival lounge at CPH: SAS Gold Lounge
Plane: Airbus A340-313X
Registration: OY-KBC
Name: Freydis Viking
Delivered to SAS: April 2002
Engines: 4 CFM International CFM56-5C4
Take-Off Thrust: 34,000 lb each
Route: Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Mongolia, Novosibirsk, Finland, Sweden
From 2018 SAS will fly the Airbus A350-900 XWB from Copenhagen to Shanghai

[@olebisgaardgrafvonfalkenst9847]

Absolutely one of the best documented detailed flights and experiences !!! 15 out of 10 !!!! Thank you for taking your time making this for us, to ENJOY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ragaglia]

Those engines may be small and certainly not the most poweful, but this aircraft sounds amazingly quiet, and this particular model has an impressive safety record. I would fly on it anytime

[@snoopydoopy9760]

man those text comments are awesome, thank you for taking the time to gather all that info!! . apart from that I must say that the A380 is one heck of an airplane and I love those giant turbines on the 777 - she's a beauty!!

[@engelundgeister]

FASCINATING that you identify neighboring aircraft for viewers! This satisfies my addiction to flying, internationally, until I can gather funds to travel, later this year! Wonderful video!! Many thanks!

[@FlowPhille]

I went on the same flight in 2004, i still remember it well :)

[@doc7austin]

+FlowPhille sadely, SAS has not refurbished the economy cabin in the last 11 years between 2004 and 2015

[@JoakimBjornander]

+doc7austin They have a new refurbished cabin on international flights now. It's really nice

[@robertbalboni3797]

love the a340 series reminds me of a modern day 707 (my favorite plane) its to bad they stopped production on them as I think they are powerful and attractive. great video of this trip!

[@solisoutdoors2219]

Powerful? Most underpowered engines on a widebody you mean...

[@greenhorngaming2638]

Solis Outdoors what about the -500s and -600s.....

[@nntflow7058]

I love when aircraft climb slower, it's less boring because you get more scenery to look at.

[@Louisa93able]

The Doc has served up another masterpiece; watching must be good for your health!

[@ananzi1975]

Landing in Copenhagen Airport.... The only airport in Europe with hardwood floors - NICE!!

[@alexkay7199]

The A340 is a gorgeous plane. However, it's always funny how long it takes the 300-version's engines to get this plane up in the air. ;)

[@scandinavianaviator8141]

Great video! I havent flown the A340-300 for over a decade so it`s nice to see the experience from the inside. At the moment they are getting brand new cabins installed on 4 out of 8 aircraft and SAS will hold on to them for at least another 7 years before their leases are up..

[@TheSolnabo]

"the most romantic approach"! Love it :D Tak för video

[@estevaos9142]

This video is outstanding. Love every single aspect of it. Thank you so much :)

[@LostBeachBoys]

Nice video. I flew the same plane CPH-SFO on june 6 2015. Very smooth flight.

[@thomaskummer8784]

2:56 That train. No scratching, no grafittos, no stickers. WOW

[@frankhjohansen9633]

Nice presentation of the flight. Been traveling this distance over 20 times since 2012. Now I looking forward to the moment they upgrade the planes. Sitting in these chairs for 10 hours is hard. Not easy to sleep either when your tall. Next flight to Shanghai from Copenhagen will be in December 2015.

[@ragaglia]

Excellent video and report, that´s the kind of things we want to see in this videos, thanks for sharing

[@doc7austin]

thanks for the feedback; although, it was my first and last time on a SAS longhaul plane; the hard product is quite old; maybe I will change my mind, once SAS start operating the Airbus A350-900

[@smoothflying]

doc7austin they have a brand new concept on their a340/330 it will be no difference from the a350 in 2018 all are retrofitted.

[@jonw8789]

Great video, thoroughly enjoyed the footage. What a shame the A340-300 (and other variants) are no longer deemed efficient by airlines and are being phased out.

[@MrGlendale111]

Excellent summary of your trip. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks

[@egostonj]

Wow amazing video! And after takeoff it looks sooooo fast!

[@visionist7]

Very relaxing video! :-D

[@OnBoardHD]

I love the view on 7:47 . :)

[@adelarsen9776]

Fly SAS - It's Scandinavian. When I'm on board with SAS I am home :-)

[@hasooabas6784]

London

[@strahinjapfc]

Another excellent and very detailed report! :)

[@adamh7588]

Nice video I always fly with China Eastern to Shanghai when visiting the in-laws

[@97718yxb]

Thanks - really enjoyed the flight.Think next time, we will upgrade to business class!

[@srenveje5606]

Great Airbus 340 video - and i am a native "Amagerkaner" = the island where the airport EKCH/Kastrup is located...and also nice to see a landing on runway 30... ;-)

[@lykke4110]

En Sorgens dag, en æra er forbi, 1000 tak for alle de rejser jeg fik med jer... :-(

[@dave4shmups]

Excellent video as always!

[@canofanger]

14:20 a nice, sunny day in China

[@bigtone718]

i've always liked the A340's but those engines were absolute dogs man it was painful to watch such a beautiful bird struggle to get airborne,sadly they were discontinued back in 2011 but i would love for Airbus to bring this 4 engine beauty with the distinctive belly landing gear back with more powerful engines!hey Airbus are you guys reading this?LOL

[@carlmaster9690]

The A340-500 & A340-600 cN climb a lot faster than the A340-200 and 300 series.

[@schumi246]

At MTOW, the -300 has a power to weight ratio of 0.224, while the -600 was 0.276, however the 777-200LR has 0.301. Its no wonder why the A340 always seems like it took so long to get off the ground.

[@visionist7]

@@schumi246 if they both lose an engine the 340 will have more than the 777 ;)

[@owenloney1587]

Classic video clip of SAS A340 take off out of Shanghai

[@qilinmelb]

Shanghai PVG is such an international airhub with airlines from so many different countries.

[@qilinmelb]

But why does SAS use such an old aircraft for such a longhaul international flight? The aircraft is really old, a bit outdated.

[@doc7austin]

+Lim Chi SAS is poor, hence, for a long time they couldn't afford modern planes or refurbs

[@qilinmelb]

But the safety record is quite ok, right? But as I know, SAS doesnt have a huge network of destinations. Scandinavian countries are on the top of the developed world, so curious how come SAS comes like this.

[@DanTheCaptain]

Awesome video and nice presentation of the airline. I wish to fly one of these birds some day before they're gone. Luckily Lufthansa, and Iberia still have a bunch as well as other airlines. Virgin also has a considerable amount.

[@katmen24]

GREAT vid! thank you!

[@ciloerocha]

A340-300 its my favorite airplane

[@dawnlightening]

Shanghai Pudong Air Traffic Control is EXTREMELY inefficient, as exemplified by the long delays in this video. The airport has 9 runways (16L, 16R, 17L, 17R, 33, 34L, 34R, 35L & 35R) and in 2017 the total 'movements' (ie takeoffs & landings) for the airport were 496,774. By comparison, Heathrow has just two runways (27L & 27R), yet its 2017 movements were 474,033. This translates to 237,012 movements per runway for Heathrow versus just 55,197 per runway for Pudong, a runway utilisation of 23% if we set Heathrow to 100%.

[@Louisa93able]

For safety legislation reasons 4 engined aircraft are less overpowered the 2 engined aircraft; that makes them more efficient in some ways, but slower climbers all things else being equal.

[@nntflow7058]

Britt Unculus Nope, you need to multiplied the amount of resources to generate power to those 4 engines. Also, maintenance and prices for those engines are not cheap. It's cheaper to buy and maintained slightly expensive 2 engines compared to buy or operate 4 less expensive engines.

[@Arcadiez]

people used 4 engines because of higher reliability and then can use a longer EROPS, but now a days the engine are so well made and maintained that it is more efficient to use two engines, for say the 777 have the longest ETOPS approval around 5h. It is cheaper to buy two engines than four and it is cheaper to maintain them. Most of the newer A/C are going to use two instead of four Engines, look at 787, a350 etc. Only a few will remain four engines as they still require more thurst as 747 series and a380 series. a340 is dead content, it's going to either be replaced by a350 or a newer version of a340 with two bigger engines.

[@Geoffr524]

Awesome flight video.

[@gemmuss5200]

love you

[@alegalan3084]

Nice video mate.

[@victormartinez-kn8jt]

thank you

[@qwerty69600]

that virgin atlantic plane is a -600, not a -300, by the way

[@TexasTravels]

Awesome video! BTW,the Virgin Atlantic is a a340-600 not a -300

[@pipatphongphunphong8142]

Good landing

[@GilbertoFreitasMendes]

Thanks for sharing with us. Well... How did you know a exaclty aircraft and correspondent flight immediately? Very nice video. Gilberto Mendes,

[@zerberus500]

very interesting trip report, thx for uploading! Was the flight in July 2015?

[@doc7austin]

zerberus500 in April 2015

[@nntflow7058]

doc7austin 04:28 that's actually A340-600 not the -300. Cheers.

[@MrTrainFrog]

tnt ntn True

[@Pilotfarmand]

tnt ntn No It's an 340-313. You can tell that by the engines and the lenght of the aircraft. :)

[@nntflow7058]

Sixt No sweetie, A340-600 have 5 doors on the side, A340-300 only have 4 doors. The Engines on the videos also look way bigger and way more rounder compared to A340-300.

[@user-oz9gg2dv1o]

Nice

[@andrexsepul]

4:26 this is a VS A340-600, not an A340-300.

[@doc7austin]

Dandres TCP u r right

[@Starboard76]

+Dandres TCP SAS has NO A340-600 in their fleet!

[@andrexsepul]

***** i'm talking about the plane shown at the 4:26 minute...

[@singinghorses14]

What camera was used for this?

[@dy7296]

The train itself is at about the takeoff speed.

[@iamcanadianedmonton]

how is the service ??? do you have to pay for the food? will be flying from hong kong to stockholm. read reviews on skytrax, mostly negative.

[@doc7austin]

+gordon chung two food rounds (one hot; one cold) is free

[@mikrokupu]

+gordon chung Have you checked Finnair from HKG? Easy connections to Stockholm too.

[@bincao2372]

ive been on that flight

[@darrell190967]

wasn't that Virgin a 346 and not a 343?

[@davekey8630]

You have done your research on this flight

[@redblade43]

What happened to reverse thrust?

[@MCIG8888]

10.5 how bout 16! Jfk to Tpe.

[@lburgess8263]

Slow climber is right... they need to get into the present with a GE-90

[@visionist7]

I'd rather have four engines

[@zejiangzhu109]

你那个。。。a top of city garden。。不是我家楼下小区花园吗。。。。。。。。。

[@covepac]

SHANGHAI COPENHAGEN SAS S CANDINAVIAN AIRLINES AIRBUS A340 .300OY KBC CASTEL

[@engelundgeister]

Lol!!!!! Wait a minute!!! Just saw United Air's 747, parking. It was labeled "Ghettobird"! Why??? That the funniest thing I've seen in a l-o-o-o-n-g time!! Lol!!!!!!!!

[@doc7austin]

+Paula Duvall The United Boeing 747-400 is rightfully called Ghettobird, because United offers the worst transpacific product in Economy Class in those Ghettobirds - bad food, no PTV, noisy, old ...

[@xzseng4524]

4:27, isnt that a 600?

[@falcon9564]

A340's climb rate is so slow. In comparison, a 777 would have soared into the sky ;-)

[@smoothflying]

F dc yeah I don't like that it feels like you don't have any takeoff power

[@visionist7]

Two engines feels so cheap to me... might as well be a Ryanair flight to Glasgow haha

[@nielscarp]

How is SAS onboard service? Is it true they serve you only one free drink?

[@doc7austin]

nielscarp I had the same fear like you; However, SAS conducts frequent water rounds throughout the flight; Passenger may get soft drinks in the back galley for free

[@Gallygoy]

doc7austin Suppppeeeer NICE!!! Me looove SAS :) Keep it up :)

[@nielscarp]

doc7austin Sounds great, do you live in Shanghai? It's a lovely city! I lived in Suzhou for a year and I loved those trips to Shanghai! Drinking some beer at the Paulaner cafe at Binjiang Ave with that great skyline looking down on me, strolling around the French Conession; ah the memories.. I want to go back..

[@delfosoliveira5270]

You are an expert in airplanes , bravo

[@sebaviation643]

Seat?

[@Samuelarbelaezarias]

OK

[@jakubleschtina7734]

that climb rate🤣

[@paulcopeland6539]

Shanghai. Not a good place to fly through, had a very bad experience there. Great shot of the Kiwi jet.

[@GhostHostMemories]

8:47 Ghettobird?

[@qwerty69600]

+shades921 probably a reference to the united 747's very poor cabin.

[@GhostHostMemories]

rigdon ah. never flew united. so i don't know.

[@vincentkkarlsson1928]

Some swedish guys there i think

[@lisabuchmann656]

think this tub is very old !!!!

[@GilbertoFreitasMendes]

At 20:56 this flight starts make Chemtrail.

[@doc7austin]

Gilberto Freitas its cold over Siberia

[@GilbertoFreitasMendes]

doc7austin Yes or not? is it contrail?

[@dfwaviation2066]

Gilberto Freitas Yes, it is contrails.

[@GhostHostMemories]

Gilberto Freitas chemtrail.....nice

[@BBC.Radio1]

+shades921 You should learn the difference between Chemtrails and Contrails first.

[@elton6656]

LOL hairdryer engines, it is an airbus after all

[@visionist7]

B52 needs eight hairdryers to fly

[@pdmmdk]

This aircraft is so horribly underpowered xD It should be illegal :/

[@Mumpitzjaeger]

pdmmdk Lufthansa pilots like to joke around saying the A343 only climbs because of the curvature of the Earth. :D

[@Bennewman11]

pdmmdk The Pilots have to calculate the Flex temp to derate the engines power settings on take off. This is why the engines feel under powered they are derated to take account of air pressure, temperature, Aircraft weight, runway length. So the aircraft will takeoff safely and will decrease engine wear and increase engine life :)

[@TERRAJOVEM6000]

TERRA PLANE

[@onkelmarvin8360]

Why would make a video, showing a wing for most of the time !!!!!!!