After a 15-day strike and intensive negotiations, several Scandinavian media tonight agreed that an agreement had been reached between SAS and the pilots. The information must also have been confirmed by SAS chairman Carsten Dilling to Dagens Industri.
But the joy was short – shortly after half past nine SAS went out a press release and denied that an agreement had been reached with the pilot associations but that “mediation has gone in the right direction”.
According to SAS, the strike, in which 900 pilots are participating, has affected almost 300,000 passengers and is said to have cost SEK 100-120 million per day.
Aviation analyst Jan Ohlsson on the tours around the negotiations: “It must end now”.