Airlines in a Crisis

SAS Forward plan is not going well. The savings they where to get from the pilots was just to big a hill to climb for the unions. Not only wouldn't SAS hire back direct 450 pilots let go under the pandemic. The company tried the ruse with som irish underling companies to hire further pilots on new contracts far from scandinavian union influence. A move that didn't work for Norwegian and now has ended in a total 3 country pilot strike for SAS. Even the last weeks of potential strike has probably brought new bookings down to near 0 because both sides have all the way talked about potential bankruptcy. And now when tens of thousands hollidaymakers every day is looking for alternatives in an already overfull market the SAS reliability it depended on for its necesseraly slightly premium prices is in the dumps. This is a case where all press is not good press. Wonder how Werf got on in negotiations between swedish, danish and norwegian dealbrokers, unionreps and SAS mgmt mainly repre

No matter if they have their planes on pay by the hour, should Norwegian circulate both planes and pilots to keep them in certification and at peek performance. Neither Norway nor Europe is a desert where you can just park you planes and think they are in the same condition after a few months. And pilots need a certain amount of take offs and landings to keep their certificates current. Rotate at least regularly all instructors on both types of aircraft. It isn't a coincidence that Ryanair is starting up again before 4 months has passed, and that they have been doing regular touch and go's at their bases.