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New pay and labour deal ends week-long SAS pilots strike

Air
James Chapple
3 May 2019

Scandinavian Airlines operator SAS has come to terms with pilot unions to end a costly week-long strike feared to have cost the airline group £6 million a day.

SAS is expecting to ground the overwhelming majority of its aircraft

A new three-year pay and labour deal will allow all SAS-operated flights throughout Denmark, Norway and Sweden to resume “as soon as possible”.


Pilots walked out on 26 April, disrupting 4,000 flights and affecting more than 350,000 passengers.


SAS chairman Carsten Dilling, Bloomberg reports, said the strike – believed to have cost SAS as much as £6 million a day – may have already ended the group’s chances of turning a profit this year.


The group confirmed late on Thursday (2 May) pilots would soon resume work with traffic “expected to normalise over the next few days”.