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SAS pilots to strike after talks break down


 Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flights are visible listed at Copenhagen Airport Kastrup in Copenhagen, Denmark, July three, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

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STOCKHOLM, July four (Reuters) - Wage talks among Scandinavian airline SAS (SAS.ST) and its pilots collapsed on Monday, SAS' chief government told journalists, triggering a strike as a way to paralyse big elements of the embattled carrier's operations.

"This is very horrific news," SAS CEO Anko van der Werff informed reporters.

Close to at least one,000 pilots in Denmark, Sweden and Norway will join the strike, in keeping with the unions, which SAS had said could leave some 30,000 passengers stranded each day. Read greater

"The strike yields cancellations across the flight time table and heaps of guests are affected," SAS said in a assertion. "A strike at this point is devastating for SAS and puts the company’s destiny collectively with the jobs of thousands of work-mates at stake," it stated.

The strike comes at a difficult time for loss-making SAS because it seeks to restructure its enterprise by means of assignment large cost cuts, raising new coins and changing debt to equity as part of a plan to rescue the carrier from disintegrate. Examine extra

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SAS stated it predicted the strike would to result in the cancellation of around 50% of all scheduled SAS flights and impact round 30,000 passengers in keeping with day. Unions have in advance expected the range may be as excessive as forty five,000.

The service remaining month averaged 58,000 passengers according to day and serves locations in Europe, Asia and the US.

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