SAS accuses the pilots of unlawful actions

The accusations from SAS come after 30 flights had been canceled because of a mixture of technical issues and sickness amongst crew on the weekend.

– We’re not conscious that there was an motion in any respect. We now have requested SAS to elucidate what’s the root reason for this weekend’s cancellations, says Roger Klokset of the Norwegian SAS pilots’ affiliation (NSF) to Aftenposten.

The affiliation, along with SAS Norge Flygerforening (SNF), has despatched out an e-mail to its members, through which the accusations from the corporate’s administration seem.

Within the e-mail to their members, the pilot associations write that SAS has notified that they are going to maintain the associations and particular person members financially liable for damages that the corporate incurs because of cancellations.

In keeping with the newspaper, the pilot associations write to their members that the pilots have been accused by the SAS administration of calling in sick. In keeping with SAS, the motivation ought to be to have an effect on visitors, as an indication towards the truth that the SAS pilots’ collective settlement is worse than what competing airways obtained of their wage settlements.

Knut Morten Johansen, who’s the director of public relations at SAS, is not going to go into particulars a couple of attainable compensation declare, however confirms that there’s a letter demanding that “the pilots cease what we imagine is an unlawful and collective-bargaining motion”.