There are currently 3 active threads on basically the same subject, i.e. the confrontation at SAS between management and pilots.
Now, at the risk of getting all the flak, let me mention something that hasn't been said. SAS was in dire straits some 3-4 years ago. Official figures for 2004 still show SAS as having the highest cost among the top 50 airlines worldwide, at over 16 cents per available seat-mile.
We are talking survival here, not just growth potential. The current management seem (from the outside, at least) to have done a decent job of turning the company around. And as we all know, cost cutting isn't done with niceties. It hardly comes as surprise that labour conflicts arise in such environment; but then, what was the alternative, knowing full well that the company might have taken the SR/SN route?
Don't get me wrong. I feel great respect and simpathy for SAS pilots and I'm sure they are a group of top notch professionals. Furthermore, I know next to nothing of the strategies that SAS management have been using indoors. But being the aforementioned indisputable I feel it would be worth to raise a rational, balaced debate.
Now shoot.