STOCKHOLM / OSLO (VG) After sitting in negotiations from Saturday morning and through night to Sunday, the parties in the SAS conflict continue the negotiations.
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Roger Klokset, leader of the Norwegian SAS Pilots’ Association (NSF), says on Sunday morning at 07.25:
– We’re on. We have been working tonight, and we will continue, he says.
– Have you come closer to an appointment through the night?
– Maybe. But I do not know if there will be an agreement yet.
The clock was then on its way to buy breakfast.
– We stay here as long as it makes sense to stay here, in one way or another, he says.
– Why did you choose to stay and negotiate through the night?
– Because we thought it was appropriate to try to get an agreement as soon as possible. The strike has lasted a long time and it has affected many, and there are many who are waiting for an outcome here, says the pilot leader.
He admits that it is a challenge to sit in complicated negotiations for so many hours in a row.
– It’s a little slower. Fortunately, we are many, and we rest a little when we can. So far, so good, at least.
Not sleeping
SAS’s chief negotiator Marianne Hernæs is asked if she thinks they will reach an agreement this time.
– I have a hope, but you never know what the result will be.
–When asked if she has had any sleep last night, Hernæs answers “No” and chuckles a little.
The SAS management also worked until Saturday night to prepare a proposal for the pilots. When Hernæs is asked how long she can negotiate without getting some sleep, she points out that it is not unusual in a pilot negotiator, at least in Norway, that you end up sitting around the clock, and that she is used to it.
However, she will not comment on whether this is in fact the sprint.
Negotiated for almost a day
The parties to the conflict have been sitting around the negotiating table in Næringslivets hus in Stockholm since Wednesday.
Since then it has been long negotiation days. On Saturday, national mediator Mats Wilhelm Ruland stated that they stayed overnight.
– We will buy some food now, and then we will probably sit through the night, Ruland said at 23.20 on Saturday.
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Sunday it is according to VGs flight special a total of 130 canceled flights. 126 of these are SAS flights.
SAS itself has estimated that they will lose NOK 100-130 million a day as a result of the strike.
Aviation analyst Hans Jørgen Elnæs has previously told VG that he is in doubt whether confidence in the company will be able to return:
“Soon 300,000 passengers will be affected, it is clear there are many costs and problems, and it is very, very unfortunate for all parties that this strike will not come to an end,” Elnæs said on Friday.
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