Pilot Strike: EM can affect traffic – Göteborgs-Posten

Photo: Johan Nilsson TT

Much of European traffic affected if the pilots go on strike.

Now in the morning, at seven o’clock, walked Swedish airline industry and the Swedish Pilots’ Association into a new session of negotiations on a new collective agreement. There will be no solution breaks a pilot strike at SAS out at 18 in the evening, writes TT.

Mattias Dahl, president of the employers’ organization Swedish airline industry says to TT shortly before the meeting that a position shift from the pilots needed to agree.
– negotiation is all about give and take, and we can say that we have given a lot of any other negotiations so far, says Dahl.

yesterday pilot union rejected the mediators bid. Swedish aviation industry understands that pilots remain at their original demands of overall cost increases “in roughly ten percent.” But the calculation is not correct, according to the union.
– We demand 3.5 per cent increase in wages, and beyond that we require clarity and orderliness in the agreements. SAS will not be able to interpret them to their advantage for commercial reasons. Furthermore, we demand that it should be the same wage system for new hires SAS pilots as for those who have been employed for a long time, said Swedish Pilot Association vice chairman Wilhelm Tersmeden to TT yesterday.

In Norway SAS agreed a new contract with the Norwegian pilot unions NSF and SAS Norway pilot (SNF). The agreement, effective from 1 April and is valid for one year, means that all SAS flights to and from Norway will go as planned, according to SAS in a press release.

On Swedavia is not yet known exactly how traffic will be affected by a possible strike – but it can become a very big impact.
– what we know, so that layoff is, it affects the entire domestic traffic, the Scandinavian traffic and large parts of European traffic. What we can conclude is that it becomes a very big impact, says Åsa Öhman, press officer at Swedavia.