SAS Scandinavian Airlines, the largest airline in Northern Europe, was named Europe's most punctual airline by FlightStats, an online platform of Conducive Technology Corp.

Conducive Technology Corp is a leading provider of worldwide flight on-time performance information to the global travel and transportation industries.

Now on its fourth winter season of the Dubai-Copenhagen service, SAS was awarded by FlightStats with an On-Time Performance Service Award.

“Our innovative check-in solutions, being amongst the first airline to introduce Fast Track security, has enabled us to be one of the world's most punctual airlines,” said John Dueholm, acting chief executive, SAS.

SAS was also nominated as the World's most punctual airline and was the only airline outside the Asia-Pacific region included in the global category.

Amongst regional European airlines, the SAS Group's Norwegian subsidiary Widerøe was one of the finalists.-TradeArabia News Service