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Old 11th Nov 2012, 11:25
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Analysis? A biased article in a Swedish tabloid, based more on affection rather than facts can hardly be called an analysis.

Most of what is written about the situation is based on what another Swedish paper, Dagens Industri, has published over the last couple of months. DI's reputation has the last couple of years gone down the drain and are referenced as the tabloid among Swedish business newspapers.

No doubt SAS has problems. The figures just doesn't add up these days.

Question is what can be done? Costsaving among staff is usually the first thing that management proposes, always with the same argument that "all other costs are equal to our competitors".

Given the annual reports from the biggest competitors in Scandinavia though, SAS cost structure would still be more than twice of Ryanair and 25% higher than Norwegian even if all of SAS 15,000 employees would be working for free. But of course, blame the staff...
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