Can not guarantee that there will be more cancellations – Dagbladet.no

FORNEBU (Dagbladet): – We have had an understaffed staff this summer, and will probably have it until August, says Norwegian’s CEO, Bjørn Kjos.

The strike in France, according to Norwegian boss have had major impacts on flykaoset.

– There was an extra burden when we suddenly missing crew. For a while it looked like we had too many employees, and we canceled a couple of pilot courses. When we in December discovered that we were going to get understaffed summer routes, it was immediately initiated new courses, says Kjos.

Lag for canceled courses

Norwegian-fights

• 13. May said pilot union the agreement they had with Norwegian on purchases and sales of leisure, with expiration on July 1.
• The Association believed that the company based their operation on this.
• Saturday 1. July, flykaos after 18 aircraft were canceled.
• Wednesday July 6, the parties call an emergency meeting.
• A new agreement on purchase and sale of leisure is now in place and Norwegian.
• the agreement states that the Norwegian from 1 January only buy 15 days off and that the company will hire 50 new pilots in Scandinavia by Christmas.

Now it hired 150 pilots, where fifty of these will work in Scandinavia. Only from July to December will be held 16 pilot courses.

– The delay on Dec. course nobody was hard to catch up, and at this time we hired other aircraft and thought we had control. When we then got a combination of strikes and discontinued holiday purchase agreement slice it up.

Although Norwegian and unions when has put in place a new agreement can not Kjos promise that pilot crisis now been averted.

– We can not guarantee that there will be more cancellations. Just a few days ago was canceled over 200 flights throughout Europe, and it could very easily happen in Norwegian too, that we have to cancel.

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Have shown on this since December

Norwegian knew about pilot shortage already in December, while new pilots were undergoing training should under staffing solved with chartered Air Reserve.

– This is not hiring comes after negotiations with the unions, but scheduled appointments as follows discovered under staffing and autumn we have pilots who leave. Some retire, others quit or switch to other companies, and we have many women, thankfully, going out in childbirth, says Kjos.

Kjos: – The pilots will sell leisure

One of the demands of the unions Federation and NPU was that Norwegian had hired more pilots. In addition to this, they wanted to reduce the number of purchases of holidays from 22 to 15 days.

last year the company bought over 3500 holidays and say they plan some of their production with such purchases.

– are you in tune with the employees when certain operations of the company is reckoned that the pilots’ time?

– 3500 days is not much divided between 700-800 pilots . Purchase of holidays is something we have done since 2002 and pilots receive double payment. Therefore, this has been an attractive scheme for employees, says Kjos.

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