Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A/S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens. For most of its history, Braathens was the largest domestic airline in Norway, but did not operate an international network for many years. Its main hub was Oslo Airport.
The airline was founded in 1946. From 1954 the airline was forced to operate all its scheduled flights domestically. Increased domestic competition on routes started from 1987, along with Braathens SAFE again starting international routes. By 1994 domestic deregulation of the airline market was introduced. The 1998 opening of Oslo Gardermoen Airport resulted in an intense price war with SAS and Color Air, from which Braathens never recovered financially. In 2001, it was sold to the SAS Group. Braathens merged with SAS Norway in 2004.
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