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The crown crisis has hit airlines hard, which have been forced to suspend much of their air traffic since last spring.
Therefore, at the end of April, SAS laid off 5,000 employees, 1,900 of whom were full-time employees in Sweden. The CEO of the company, Rickard Gustafson, said then that “we have no other choice.”
560 of the employees who could be forced to leave were pilots.
But there have been hopes of rescuing some of the pilots. Negotiations between SAS and the pilot unions in the three Scandinavian countries have been ongoing, and if the pilots accepted reduced pay and part-time work under the crown, they would be allowed to keep some brochures.
But the parties have not reached an agreement, writes Dagen Næringsliv (DN).
“There will be no further dialogue after the pilot unions have chosen not to accept SAS’s latest solution proposal.”writes SAS information manager John Eckhoff in an email to the newspaper.
This means that all 560 pilots can leave, if nothing else happens. According to DN, this applies in principle to all pilots employed after 2001.
