Scandinavian Airlines pilots strike, travel plans of 170,000 passengers at risk GlobeBusiness
An information board informing about cancelled or delayed flights at Stockholm-Arlanda airport, Friday, April 26, 2019. Pilots for Scandinavian Airlines on Friday launched an open-ended strike following the collapse of pay negotiations, forcing the company to cancel virtually all its flights — 673 of them, affecting 72,000 passengers.
“As a consequence of the strike, domestic, European and long-haul flights have been cancelled, and thousands of travellers will be affected,” it said in a statement. “The SAS pilots’ strike is surprising to us and makes it clear that SAS is more vulnerable than we previously expected,” Sydbank analysts said.Labour unions this month called for 1,500 SAS pilots to go on strike on Friday if no agreement was reached on wages and other issues after an earlier round of talks failed.“The strike could have been avoided, if SAS had shown a real willingness to meet us halfway,” said Rene Arpe, chairman of the Danish pilot union.
“We had wished that the pilots had taken a greater responsibility in this situation,” said Torbjörn Granevärn, head of negotiation at the Swedish Confederation for Transport Enterprises.The strike does not affect flights operated by SAS partners, which make up approximately 30 per cent of all departures, the airline said.
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