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Gay Travel News: Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has become the world's first airline to conduct both a gay and a lesbian marriage in flight.
By: Nigel Robinson
SAS: love is in the air
SAS: love is in the air
SAS couples get hitched in mid-air
8 December 2010
The weddings took place on board Flight SK903 between Stockholm and New York, and were the prizes in the company's successful Love is in the Air campaign, in which 300 gay and lesbian couples competed for the chance to be married in mid-air.
German couple Aleksandr Mijatovic and Shantu Bhattacherjee were the first to be married about fifteen minutes into the flight over Swedish airspace. They were followed shortly after by lesbian couple Ewa Tomaszewicz and Gosia Rawinska from Poland.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Sweden, but not in Germany or Poland, although Germany does offer a form of civil partnership.
Anders Lindström, the PR director of Scandinavian Airlines, which is the national carrier for Sweden, Norway and Denmark said: “We are extremely proud to be the first airline to host not only the world’s first mid-air same-sex wedding, but both the first gay and lesbian wedding.
“As the national airline of the world’s three most progressive countries, which were also the first to legalise same-sex marriages, we felt it was completely natural also to be the first with this.”
