SAS and its pilots extend wage talks until Monday
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scandinavian airline SAS and its pilots have agreed to increase their wage talks till Monday within the hope of averting a strike, an organization government advised reporters on Saturday.
Near 1,000 pilots in Denmark, Sweden and Norway plan to strike if talks break down, in keeping with the unions, which SAS had stated may depart some 30,000 passengers stranded every day.
“We have to sleep, none of us have slept for a very very long time,” SAS’ lead negotiator Marianne Hernaes advised reporters after the newest spherical of talks which ran by the night time.
A strike would comes at a troublesome time for loss-making SAS because it seeks to restructure its enterprise by endeavor giant value cuts, elevating new money and changing debt to fairness as a part of a plan to rescue the service from collapse.
Swedish day by day Expressen had earlier reported, citing unnamed sources, {that a} deal had been reached, however SAS stated the talks have been nonetheless ongoing within the hope of averting a strike.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik; enhancing by Niklas Pollard)
