Norwegian SAS pilots offered the same deal as the Swedes – HegnarOnline

The Norwegian pilots in Norwegian Cockpit Association is now the only one in the Scandinavian airline has broken the negotiations and taken out members on strike. They returned after the NTB experience, thumbs down for an agreement in the form and content was very similar, if not identical with, the their Swedish colleagues a few hours later accepted.

Before then, SAS pilots Denmark and the around 240 Norwegian pilots who are not organized in Cockpit Association, signed new collective agreements with SAS.

This means that around 80 percent of the pilots have agreed with management.

– We would have liked terms with everyone, but we rejoice now that so many people see that this is a good collective agreement with Scandinavian conditions. Now we hope that it can also ensure that the latter is in place for too long, says Knut Morten Johansen SAS said.

I strike first phases get the little or no impact on traffic and for passengers, said SAS. Four landings and departures to and from Arlanda in Stockholm were canceled Thursday, but it was due to fear of strikes in Sweden.

Broke five hours of overtime
arbitration between NHO Aerospace and Norwegian Cockpit Association has been underway since Monday in a bid to establish a new collective agreement for Cockpit Association members.

After the NTB understand negotiations have largely been about the same as it has been agreed Sweden: A substantial renegotiation or simplification as the company calls it, of pilots’ 238-page collective agreement. It is crucial for the SAS to compete in an increasingly tough market in the future, says the company.

The agreement also provides SAS management the flexibility to direct resources Your are needed in periods when demand is greatest , which in summer.

– We are doing all we can for our customers to get off as planned and get the service they expect, says Rickard Gustafson.

Agreement regulates moreover clearly pilots’ employment, which gives a very important safety, according to the chairman Peter Larsson in Swedish pilotförening. (© NTB)