Today and on Tuesday SAS passengers must expect massive problems: The airline says more than 1200 connections. A solution to the collective bargaining conflict is not over.
The pilot strike at the Scandinavian airline SAS will continue to cause severe disruption to passengers today and on Tuesday. More than 1200 flights would have to be canceled on both days, SAS said. Affected are another 110,000 travelers.
Especially Scandinavian countries affected
More than 1400 pilots of the airline have been on strike since Friday. At the weekend, SAS had canceled around 900 flights, both domestic flights and European and long-haul flights with around 98,000 passengers. „We greatly regret that our customers are affected by the ongoing strikes,“ said SAS today.
Already on Friday, according to the SAS 72,000 passengers were affected by the strike, 673 flights were canceled. Also connections to Germany were canceled: SAS flights were canceled from Copenhagen to Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich, from Stockholm to Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Dusseldorf as well as from Oslo to Munich and Berlin.
No agreement in the wage dispute
The pilots demand 13 percent more wages and more predictability in everyday working life. SAS was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2012, cutting salaries for many employees. A solution to the collective bargaining conflict has not yet emerged. Discussions with the SAS unions representing some 1,500 pilots in Norway, Sweden and Denmark had been broken.
