SAS has cancelled 2,800 flights so far as deadlock in wage dispute shows no sign of being broken
SAS jets at Gardamoen Airport stand idle during a pilots' strike, in Oslo, Norway, April 26 2019. Picture: OLE BERG-RUSTEN/NTB SCANPIXStockholm — Scandinavian airline SAS cancelled more than 1,200 flights scheduled for Monday and Tuesday as a strike by pilots that has disrupted the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers entered its third day on Sunday.
“We deeply regret that our customers are affected by the ongoing pilot strike when SAS now cancels flights on Monday and Tuesday,” the airline said. The deadlock in the dispute showed no sign of being broken on Sunday with SAS, Swedish and Danish pilots unions and Norway’s employers association NHO saying no renewed contacts between the parties had been initiated.
The airline industry’s employer body in Sweden has said pilots sought a 13% wage hike despite what it called already high average wages, demands it labelled as “extreme”.The SAS Pilot Group, a union body representing 95% of the airline’s pilots in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has said the dispute concerns more than wages, pointing to demands for more predictable working hours.
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