Benefits
In the major Scandinavian Carrier, the benefit package are not as generous as some seem to think, espessially when factoring in the high taxation and cost of living in scandinavia. And the unions gave away allmost all of the benefits in 2004. What we are fighting for today is the production, IE the jobs. And there are still no indication that they will go as far as to replace us with cheap labour inside the company. Bit they are transferring routes to other companies they own in Spain, the Baltics and in Finland. So even though we have been giving what they ask for in terms of paycuts and workincreases, they are not holding up their part of the bargain. And the sucsessful network carriers do it very differently. They are merging getting big savings in return. Our company is beeing split into miniairlines, giving way for more CEO´s more CFO´s more cheirmen of the boards. Why because they are to incompetent to run a relativly small airline with 200 aircraft.
Time to put blame where blame is due. SAS pilots work on marked prices. And the management are not able to figure out how to make money. A hint from me, try expanding where there are little competition, namly longhaul