SAS pilots reach agreement with management, end strike

STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark early Tuesday named off a strike that has been creating significant disruption for 15 times after achieving a offer with administration.

The provider has reported the strike has led to the cancellation of all-around 50 percent of all SAS scheduled flights and experienced impacted hundreds of passengers for every day.

SAS CEO Anko van der Werff reported the get-togethers experienced agreed on an settlement for the subsequent 5-and-a-50 % a long time that guarantees both of those charge savings for the airline and occupation protection for the pilots.

“I am pleased to report that we now have appear to an arrangement with all four pilot unions for SAS Scandinavia and the strike has finished. Eventually, we can resume typical functions and fly our prospects on their substantially longed-for summer months holidays. I deeply regret that so many of our passengers have been impacted by this strike,” van der Werff explained in a assertion,

Some 900 pilots walked out July 4, citing inadequate pay back and doing the job circumstances and expressing dissatisfaction with the choice by the provider to retain the services of new pilots to fill vacancies at its subsidiary airways, SAS Url and SAS Connect, fairly than rehire former pilots who have been laid off because of to the pandemic.

“Pilots have secured an important breakthrough. Four hundred and fifty pilots who had been laid off during the corona pandemic have been guaranteed re-work and the pilot associations’ collective agreements will also use to the new companies SAS Join and SAS Hyperlink,” the pilot affiliation SAS Pilot Team claimed in a statement.

SAS explained the strike led to the cancellation of additional than 3,700 flights, affecting some 380,000 passengers, introducing the walkout expense 100-130 million Swedish kronor ($9.5-12.3 million) per day in shed profits and charges.

Talks amongst pilot unions and the airline had begun in November to renew a collective arrangement that expired on April 1. Even so, months of negotiations had unsuccessful to conclude a new deal.

A day just after the strike commenced, the economically troubled SAS submitted for bankruptcy defense in the United States, expressing the walkout had place the future of the provider at hazard. The airline reported it voluntarily submitted for Chapter 11 in New York, meaning civil litigation is put on hold whilst the business reorganizes its finances.

Scandinavian Airlines is aspect-owned by the governments of Sweden and Denmark. In 2018, Norway bought its stake but retains credit card debt in the airline and has explained it may possibly be willing to transform that into equity.