Scandinavian airline SAS said on Wednesday it was adding a surcharge to domestic and European flights to mitigate rising fuel costs.

SAS will add a EUR10 euro (USD$15.49) charge to domestic flights in Sweden or Denmark and an EUR8 charge to flights in Norway, corporate communications director Bertil Ternert said. On other European flights, the airline will add a EUR15 charge.

Ternert said notices had gone out to SAS's agents and bureaus and that the charges take effect immediately. He did not have any figures on the potential impact on group revenues.

He added that the charges would be announced in a news release on monthly traffic figures, scheduled for Thursday.

The airline, half-owned by Sweden, Norway and Denmark, has been hurt by high fuel costs and a host of other factors.

Last month it posted a SEK973 million kronor (USD$162 million) pretax loss for the first quarter and said it would cut about 1,000 jobs from a workforce of more than 25,500.