The parties have been negotiating for several hours on Wednesday. The parties are now announcing that negotiations will continue tomorrow. Thursday at 09.00 the parties will meet again. SAS, the pilots and the Ombudsman have been in hour-long meetings in Stockholm on Wednesday. This is the first time the parties have met since 900 SAS pilots went on strike on Monday last week. Apollo threatens to break off cooperation – If they want our customers to continue to like them, there must be a change, says Apollo’s communications manager Sandra Miller Kinge to Dagens Industri. The pressure is increasing on SAS. The travel giant Apollo, which still has thousands of stranded travelers left abroad, demands that the parties reach a long-term solution – otherwise they threaten to withdraw from the cooperation. – SAS has been the customers’ favorite for a long time, and we really hope that they can come up with a long-term plan so that we can continue our successful collaboration, Kinge tells the newspaper. She believes both parties themselves must realize that this has not “been good for anyone”. – Now you have to find a long-term, sustainable way to talk to each other – within the company. It is extremely important. Alerts compensation claim against SAS The travel agency Apollo had 25,000 customers in Scandinavia who were affected by the strike in SAS this weekend. In Denmark, the tour operator announces claims for compensation against SAS after countless delays and cancellations due to the pilot strike this summer, reports NTB. The amount of compensation will probably be high, as it is Apollo’s high season and strike-resistant travelers need board and lodging, says sales director at Apollo Denmark, Glenn Bisgaard. As recently as March this year, Apollo in Denmark entered into a three-year contract with SAS for charter flights worth an annual value of DKK 700 million. About 40 percent of their trips this summer are with SAS flights. When the SAS pilots went on strike, this meant that several of Apollo’s customers did not return home from holiday, or were not allowed to travel at all. Beatriz Rivera and Apollo Norway. Photo: Johnny Syversen / Apollo Head of Communications at Apollo in Norway, Beatriz Rivera says that they have not taken a position on the financial aspect yet, but that they will sit down with SAS to discuss this later. – Always optimistic The parties, SAS and the pilots, have been far from a solution since 900 pilots went on strike ten days ago. In an attempt to find a solution, the SAS management and the unions returned to the negotiating table in Stockholm on Wednesday morning. – I’m always optimistic. You have to be in this job, said mediator Mats Wilhelm Ruland on his way to Monday’s meetings. Ombudsman Mats Wilhelm Ruland before Monday’s meetings in Stockholm. Photo: Annika Byrde / NTB The strike has led to 1,493 flights to and from Norway being canceled, and 158 of them are today. It shows figures from Avinor’s website, writes NTB. – We are solution-oriented as always, but have already gone extremely far, said leader of the Norwegian SAS pilots’ association, Roger Klokset, to news before today’s meeting. – The solution is there if they want to end the strike.
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The SAS negotiations have ended for the day – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
