1,200 Flights Cancelled Amid SAS Strike

The strike at Scandinavian Airlines has resulted in over 1,200 flight cancellations and left thousands of airline passengers stranded.

1,213 flights scheduled for Monday and Tuesday will not be taking off as the pilots’ strike continues.

The SAS pilots strike began over wage negotiations and currently shows no sign of being resolved. The strike is affecting the flag carrier for Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, which has affected over 170,000 passengers. The open-ended strike began on Friday after pay negotiations with the SAS Pilot Group fell apart. The SAS Pilot Group represents approximately 95% of SAS pilots in those three Scandinavian countries. The group’s main grievances surround salary increases and working hours.

SAS, for their part, believes that the SAS Pilot Group is being unreasonable in their demands. “We have put attractive offers on the table that they have rejected. Having a list of demands that knocks off the feet of our competitiveness just doesn’t work,” said SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson. The situation’s details have yet to be released in full, but the pan-Scandinavian pilots group says it wants their pilots’ salaries to line up with the market rate, while SAS negotiators have dismissed their demands as “unreasonable and extreme.”

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