– Our holiday plan is chaos, Dhanalakshmi Gopalswamy tells news. On Tuesday, she will travel to India with her husband and children to visit family. A trip that has been planned for three years. To get to India, the family must first take a SAS flight from Oslo to Copenhagen, to continue flying with Qatar Airways. The family fears that their plane may be canceled if the SAS pilots go on strike. Then they do not get on as planned. Gets expensive On Sunday, the family drove half an hour from Asker to the center of Oslo to test themselves on what they believe is the most affordable clinic nearby. Dhanalakshmi Gopalswamy goes to the clinic before the children are tested for corona. Tests are unpacked at Kalbakkenklinikk in Oslo. PCR tests can be expensive. The family has so far spent NOK 1,200 on tests. If there is an air strike in Sas, they will probably have to pay for more. To enter India, children who are unvaccinated need PCR tests for corona. If the flight is canceled and the trip is moved, the tests will cease to be valid. – I am a little afraid that we will have to test ourselves again, says eldest son Abhinav Nandan Sundararajan. – It can be expensive to test again. Then we have to stress about finding a new time to take the test, and spend a lot of money that we would actually spend on something else on the trip, says mother Dhanalakshmi. May ruin your holiday WAITING: Dhanalakshmi Gopalswamy often checks the news to see if mediation has been settled. Photo: Mathias Moene Rød / news – I get a little angry if we are not allowed to visit grandparents in India. I had hoped that we would be allowed to go this year, says son Abhinav Nandan Sundararajan to news. This is the conflict SAS and their pilots do not disagree on pay. The core of the conflict is the creation of two staffing companies. During the pandemic, around 560 pilots lost their jobs. At the same time, SAS established two subsidiaries. They were named SAS Link and SAS Connect. These will take over aircraft and be filled with new pilots. The SAS pilots who were laid off during the pandemic will have their jobs back. They say SAS is trying to circumvent its obligations to bring the dismissed pilots back. SAS rejects this. They believe the company relates to all agreements entered into. According to the pilot association, the pilots have agreed to savings measures that amount to 25 percent savings. In return, they will have an assurance that it is their members who get the new jobs that will be filled in SAS Link and SAS Connect. As the mediation deadline in SAS was postponed to Monday at 12 noon, the family has one day to book new flights or change work plans. – It is a bit frustrating when we do not know what will happen, Gopalswamy says. – We have many planned activities with the family in India. Then we have to plan everything again. We may have to plan working days as well, because we had planned five weeks holiday. If there is a later date, we must look at the possibility of whether we can work now, and take a holiday later, she says. Booking a new plane with another company will be too expensive, says the mother. – We will be very happy if we get to travel on Tuesday, says Gopalswamy. – Had been a very strange strategy Because the deadline has been postponed, the researcher thinks that something positive may have happened during the conversations in the mediation. – I believe that the postponement means that it is possible to avoid a strike, says Frode Steen, who is a professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Management. EXPECTATIONS: Professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Management, Frode Steen, believes the postponement may mean that there will be no strike. Photo: Hallvard Lyssand / Hallvard Lyssand – If the postponement of the mediation was not about this, it would simply have been a very strange strategy. There is no point in postponing a strike if you know that there will be a strike anyway, Steen says. He believes that constant delays in mediation are a disadvantage for both the company and the passengers. – SAS is also suffering from these negotiations. Ticket sales and reputation are at stake, says Steen. – The uncertainty these passengers feel is very unpleasant. It does something with people’s perception of SAS.
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