Margarita - Why should pilot's have to leave a company for "greener pastures" if, by staying and applying some pressure, they improve their conditions?
The choice of one of the 3 pilot groups within SAS to not support the other two is poor strategy for precisely the reasons mentioned above - ability of management to split the pilot group. Their may be parochial self interests at work here with the Swedes, I am not familiar with the Sacndanavian region to know the differences in the costs of living in each country - heck, I thought you all were Socialists! But playing one pilot group against another only results in having all the pilots take lesser pay and benefits in the future. It has been done here in the States repeatedly in the last 5 years.