A quarter of a million SAS passengers have been affected. On Friday, the parties to the SAS conflict will meet again for new negotiations.
July 15, 2022 10:02 am
Last updated today at 10:56
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Negotiations started again at 10 o’clock in Näringslivets Hus in Stockholm. This is the third day in a row of negotiations after the parties agreed to continue the mediation when the SAS pilots’ strike had been going on for a little over a week.
Riksmegler Mats Wilhelm Ruland repeats that he believes the parties are closer to each other than ever, something he also stated when the negotiations were concluded for the day on Thursday.
–– I stand by that, says Ruland on his way into the negotiations on Friday.
– Nothing has happened since I left here yesterday that I know, but now we will go in and meet, then we will see what happens now.
“Extremely flexible”
He will not say whether there will be a solution before the weekend.
– We’ll see. There are several issues that are difficult and that must be solved for there to be a new collective agreement, he said.
Ruland also says that he has not had a mediation before that has taken so long.
–The leader of the Danish pilot association, Henrik Thyregod, thinks the pilots have been “extremely flexible” since November. The conditions they have offered SAS are “of another world”, he says VG / E24.
But they are prepared for long negotiations on Friday. Roger Klokset from the Norwegian SAS pilots’ association told this.
– We sit as long as necessary. As long as it makes sense, he said on the way to the negotiations.
Long negotiations
Negotiation manager Marianne Hernæs in SAS tells VG / E24 that the distance between the parties today is the same as yesterday.
– On some of the important points, the parties are far apart, she says.
On Thursday, the parties negotiated from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.
900 pilots in SAS have been on strike since 4 July. It has cost the company up to 1.3 billion Swedish kroner, or 1.26 billion Norwegian kroner. Over 2550 flights have been canceled. More than 270,000 passengers have been affected, SAS states.
On Friday, 167 SAS flights to and from Norway were canceled as a result of the strike.
This is the distribution of canceled departures from Norwegian airports so far today:
* Oslo: 68
* Trondheim: 10
* Bodø: 7
* Stavanger: 7
* Tromsø: 7
* Bergen: 6
* Ålesund: 3
* Bardufoss: 3
* Alta: 2
* Harstad / Narvik: 2
* Haugesund: 2
* Kirkenes: 2
* Kristiansand: 2
* Kristiansund: 2
* Mold: 2
* Lakselv: 1
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