The SAS strike is not an attempt to run the company.
It is damage control.
During the last 4 years, 800 pilot jobs has disappeared from SAS. These jobs have been outsourced to cheaper labour - Finish, Estonian, Spanish etc... pilots. At the same time SAS Airline has been forced to pay for the maintenance and handling costs for these companies. Spanair has only paid 1/3 for maintenance on an MD80 as SAS.
The management, have made a necessary cost reuction of almost 12 billion Danish kroners - they did a good job with this. The company is starting to make money, and prognoses tell of huge profits this year.
However, the company take opportunity to do union busting. The deal of sending the MD90 to Blue1 and then crew them with contract pilots is very provocative. We are not going to accept this.
The pilot job is not that glamorous any more, and we certainly do not want working conditions to deterioate any more.
And Scandinavianpilot - How many times over the last 30 years have the pilots actually went on a strike? To my knowlegde they only had a 2 hour strike two years ago, because the management was trying to screw the pilots in connection with the Braathens merger..Other from that - Nothing. Other labour groups in SAS have had many strikes, but not the pilots.
So therefor, before making stupid statements about the pilots in SAS, you should get your background knowledge rigth. You either sound like a pilot wannabee or a pilot who did not pass the SAS assesment.
Brgds
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