Timilu
Have you ever tried some simple math?
Pilots travelling from Denmark or Sweden to work in Norway. At least half a day each end of a five day not producing anything but one less seat for the company to sell. Out of a five day production, 20% less due to travelling. Cost of per diem and hotel in Oslo, depending on scheduling from one to four days. Who is going to pay for this extra expense?
Kingsnake (good name for a SAS pilot)
Read the norwegian laws again! Unlike what some SAS pilot think, norwegians laws specificly states: You transer to a new company with your TITLE and SENORITY.
Lets look at what "old" Braathens brought in to the new company:
A historical result for the first half of 2004. First quarter gave us unexpected "black numbers" and by the half year mark we had already made half a billion. Unfortunately the rest of the year we shared our numbers with norwegian SAS and all of a sudden, despite 3. and 4. quarter being good times for most airlines, we lost most of the half billion and ended up with a year result of measely 4 million.
SASBraathens senority list (NFL)has a fixed number of positions for SAS pilots on the "kombilist" and the ex Braathens pilots have a number of positions. As long as we merge the norwegian part of SAS and "old" Braathens into one company I don't see any problems. We all bring enough production to keep transferred number of people in the same positions. I don't see any problem bringing SAS Commuter into the "family" as long as they bring along nessecary production to keep everyone with a job either. Although their production is "old" Braathens routes. One problem I do see is that Pfor is trying to keep this production as a "kombilist" production only. Meaning that ex Braathens pilots are not given the chance to bid captain positons on SAS commuter production in Norway whenever that chance may show up.
Again: ex Braathens pilots bring production and airplanes enough to keep us busy for years. We are not taking over, stealing any seats or creating any delays in any SAS pilot's career. On the contrary, we give you a healthy company (already a model for Danish and Swedish production) giving us a descent chance to fight low cost companies and give all of us a secure future.
(SAS pilots: take a look at the company and the results the last five years. Is it time to face the future?)