First of all: the reason SC is not mentioned is becaused they are considered to be a part of SA (Scandinavian Airlines).
All of the pilots with SA agree that serious costcutting had to be done for SAS to survive, as a matter of fact we were the first employee group to completely meet or exceed the managements demands.
Even Mr. Lindegaard has stated that we are very competitive with other european airline pilots. Nobody has complained about the longer days, even our old collective agreement allowed for 700+ hours of flying
pr. year, the problem has always been that SA due to an idiotic fleet mix and a useless scheduling department has been unable to get enough hours out of the pilots.
The biggest problems with SA has been a huge overhead + Europes most expensive cabin crew. Strangely enough these problems seem to be the hardest to fix, and in the mean time Lindegaard and his friends are handing out our routes to our biggest competitors, namely our so-called sister companies.
This outsourcing has so far led to massive lay-offs of the most devoted groups of employees within the company: the mechanics and the pilots.
The biggest reason for the break-up of SA into five smaller parts, is that Lindegaard now will have 11 similar-size small airlines to continue his divide-and-conquer games with. The end result will be a big group of unhappy employees, always looking for a better job; but I'm sure the stock-owners and management will be happy...
As a matter of fact it sounds a lot like an airline I knew about in Florida, Valujet. We all know how well that went...
