Swedish Market Economy: Charter hit hard by flygstrejk

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Charter hit hard by flygstrejk – Vestmanlands County Newspaper

Thousands of passengers are stranded due to SAS pilots’ strike, this upon check-in at the airport on Friday evening.

: Sören Andersson / TT

Finance / TT

Pilot Strike affects tens of thousands SAS travelers. Football Championship and charter season means that the pressure on the flight are extra hard. Rebooking possibilities are small or non-existent.

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Facts

Fact: Air strike

It was on Friday evening as Swedish pilots tripped his notice for 400 SAS pilots based at the airport. Negotiations continued into the final, but the pilots were not satisfied with the employer’s offer.

Pilot Association requires, among other more secure forms of employment and higher wages.

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the Swedish SAS pilots’ strike is in its second day. 20,000 passengers affected by 159 cancellations on Saturday. Already yesterday hit about 4 000 passengers.

– We regret that the situation looks like it is doing and that our customers can not fly as planned, says Karin Nyman, Director of communications at SAS.

Stranded charter travelers

charter companies are particularly affected by the canceled flights.

– this hit very, very hard against us. Right now we have 5000 customers who are not going anywhere, says Ann-Sofie Olsson, press officer at the tour operator Apollo.

Apollo suffer because the company has chartered plane from SAS for a portion of their flights. 2400 by the company’s customers is therefore fixed at various destinations, while another 2400 will set off on their planned trips.

When the stranded passengers can travel home is unclear.

– We have tried to hire aircraft, but it’s really hard. We therefore announced our customers the night we set all flights were done with SAS today. There is no capacity, says Ann-Sofie Olsson.

Hard to reschedule

The strike has broken out in the SAS absolute peak season causes problems.

– It is of course full of many flights as rebooking possibilities are not the very best. We do everything we can to help in the best way and find alternatives for our travelers, says Karin Nyman at SAS.

The airport operator Swedavia staff met a couple of hundred disappointed travelers who had made their way to Arlanda in the morning, most charter passengers, but Ulf Wallin, head of Swedavia describes the situation at the airport as quiet.

– It is clear that people are becoming extremely disappointed but SAS and charter companies have worked hard to inform during the evening and night, says Ulf Wallin, head of Swedavia.

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